David Brand
Debra Ack of East New York Community Land Trust and City Comptroller Brad Lander at a rally Monday.
The city’s controversial tax lien sale expires Monday. Absent legislation to create a new program or renew the existing one, a group of activists and elected officials have proposed abolishing the private sales and turning properties over to community land trusts (CLTs) instead.
“Automobile crashes killed 273 people in 2021, a whopping 33 percent increase over 2018, the safest year in New York City’s recent traffic history…It’s a mystery as to why so many city residents, as well as city and state politicians, seemingly accept such a heartbreaking level of carnage as just another unfortunate trade-off of city life.”
La administración Biden ha revocado o eliminado 235 políticas sobre inmigración de las 1.059 políticas puestas en marcha por el expresidente Donald Trump.
A possible COVID outbreak and a hunger strike at the Orange County Correctional Facility (OCCF) were two of the main topics Monday during the first meeting of the City Council’s immigration committee in 2022.
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