Mapping the Future
New York City Housing Calendar, Aug 3-10
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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
Mayor’s Emergency Declaration Will Speed Shelter Openings as Homeless Population Rises
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The declaration will allow the city to open a new intake facility specifically for asylum-seekers and immigrants who have made their way to city shelters. It will also allow the Department of Homeless Services to issue contracts to nonprofits to open additional shelters, most likely in hotels, while bypassing public review and the usual competitive bidding process.
Mapping the Future
East New York Families in Limbo as Developer Plans High Rise to Replace Crumbling Housing Complex
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Just six units remain occupied at the Arlington Village complex. Now, those who remain worry about what the owners’ plan to develop the site will mean for them. “What exists now won’t exist.”
Government
Want to Rezone in Western Queens? Here’s How to Win Over the Councilmember
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Councilmember Julie Won issued a list of “land use principles” she said she will apply to new projects in her district that require Council-approved changes to the city’s zoning code—including a controversial proposal to build a 3,000-unit complex in southern Astoria.
Housing and Homelessness
Bronx Rental Complex Must Accept Housing Vouchers, Judge Rules
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The decision Friday marks the first time a New York court has ruled that minimum-income policies for people with full-rent subsidies violate city and state laws, said Housing Works senior attorney Armen Merjian, who represented the family trying to get into Parkchester Preservation Company’s apartments.
housing events
New York City Housing Calendar, July 27 to August 3
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City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
Affordable Housing
NYC Evictions Have Increased Every Month This Year
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So far this year, city marshals have executed at least 1,527 residential evictions, according to statistics maintained by the Department of Investigation (DOI). The true number of legal evictions is likely higher because DOI updates its database only after a marshal reports an eviction, which can take days or weeks.
Housing and Homelessness
NYC Struggles to Make Shelter Space for Rising Homeless Population
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Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday doubled down on his claim that thousands of asylum-seekers have strained New York City’s homeless shelter system, causing his administration to break state law by keeping at least four families in an intake facility overnight.
¿De dónde vienen las familias que están llegando a los albergues de Nueva York?
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Por semanas City Limits ha hablado con varias familias latinoamericanas que entraron en el sistema de albergues de la ciudad después de entrar a los Estados Unidos por la frontera del sur. El alcalde Eric Adams ha acusado a Texas y Arizona de enviar a los inmigrantes recién llegados a la ciudad, algo que los gobernadores de ambos estados han negado. Las familias que hablaron con City Limits dijeron que llegaron aquí con ayuda de organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro.
Housing and Homelessness
New York’s New NYCHA Laws Aim to Hold Agency Accountable
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The measures, signed Tuesday by Gov. Kathy Hochul, will force NYCHA to create a searchable online database of work tickets and task city agencies with making public housing code violations public.