Housing and Homelessness
NYC Housing Calendar, Oct. 6-12
Mariam Hydara |
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
Housing and Homelessness
NYC Issues Thousands of Federal Housing Vouchers, But Finding an Apartment Remains Tough
David Brand |
Just 19.4 percent of the 7,788 federal Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHV) issued to New York City by the Biden Administration in May 2021 have been used to secure an apartment, according to city data. That’s compared to a national rate of 48.7 percent.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: We Need E-Bike Incentives, Not Bans
Rachel Weinberger and Melinda Hanson |
“We join many other New Yorkers, including Los Deliveristas, a social justice group that represents the estimated 65,000 delivery workers, and call on the city to find alternatives to a ban that protects NYCHA residents from fire hazards without impacting transportation access or imperiling the growth of this affordable and sustainable mobility option.”
