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The city is moving hundreds of homeless adults from hotel rooms—rented in the early days of the pandemic to limit the spread of the coronavirus—back into congregate shelters, where residents…

ByDavid Brand 22 minRead time

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Jun 2021

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Brooklyn Community Board 6 Backs Gowanus Rezoning—If City Funds NYCHA Fixes

The board says its support for the project, which would upzone a large swath of Gowanus, hinges on the city funding nearly $300 million in repairs at the nearby Gowanus…

ByDavid Brand 9 minRead time

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Jun 2021

Economy Housing and Homelessness

NYC Rent Guidelines Board Sets Mid-Year Rate Hike for Stabilized Tenants

The board voted to freeze existing rents for six months before increasing rates for the remaining half of the year, what some members described as a compromise between what tenants…

ByDavid Brand 13 minRead time

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Jun 2021

Government

Andrew Yang Concedes in NYC Mayor’s Race: ‘I’m a Numbers Guy’

“I am someone who traffics in what’s happening by the numbers and I am not going to be the next mayor of New York City based on the numbers that…

ByJeanmarie Evelly

ByDavid Brand 6 minRead time

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Jun 2021

Uncategorized

14 NYC Council Candidates Raised $100K or More. How’d They Do It?

The list includes influential incumbents like Land Use Chair Rafael Salamanca and Manhattan Councilmember Carlina Rivera, as well as a few prominent figures trying to claim their first public office…

ByDavid Brand 21 minRead time

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Jun 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness

Council Votes to Make Racial Impact Studies Part of NYC Land Use Process

Residents of low- to middle-income communities of color have resisted various neighborhood-level land use applications which they say will fuel gentrification and increase rents.

ByDavid Brand 5 minRead time

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Jun 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness News

Manhattan Borough President Candidates—Mostly—Shun Developer Cash

Borough presidents have few real powers, but they do have a role in rezonings and development because they make advisory recommendations as part of the land use review.

ByDavid Brand 24 minRead time

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Jun 2021

Government Health Housing and Homelessness

NYC Set to Send Homeless Adults Back to Shelters as COVID-19 Rates Drop

Homeless New Yorkers have been bracing for a return to the barracks-style shelters for months. Nonprofit providers and DHS began sending letters as early as March urging homeless hotel residents…

ByDavid Brand 10 minRead time

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Jun 2021

Housing and Homelessness

Hotel Shelter Closure Scatters Families in Search of Permanent Homes

The 40 or so families living at the Hotel Ellington in Manhattan, where the city has been paying for rooms to house homeless New Yorkers for nearly two decades, were…

ByDavid Brand 17 minRead time

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Jun 2021

Uncategorized

Brooks-Powers Looks to Defend New Council Seat in Southeast Queens

Less than three months after winning New York City’s first true test of ranked-choice voting, Councilmember Selvena Brooks-Powers is back on the ballot, this time to defend her seat against…

ByDavid Brand 9 minRead time

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Thousands Being Sent Back to Homeless Shelters in Return to Pre-Pandemic Status Quo

Brooklyn Community Board 6 Backs Gowanus Rezoning—If City Funds NYCHA Fixes

NYC Rent Guidelines Board Sets Mid-Year Rate Hike for Stabilized Tenants

Andrew Yang Concedes in NYC Mayor’s Race: ‘I’m a Numbers Guy’

14 NYC Council Candidates Raised $100K or More. How’d They Do It?

Council Votes to Make Racial Impact Studies Part of NYC Land Use Process

Manhattan Borough President Candidates—Mostly—Shun Developer Cash

NYC Set to Send Homeless Adults Back to Shelters as COVID-19 Rates Drop

Hotel Shelter Closure Scatters Families in Search of Permanent Homes

Brooks-Powers Looks to Defend New Council Seat in Southeast Queens

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