Jarrett Murphy, Author at City Limits

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After spending billions on reducing water pollution and promising to spend even more to make New York’s rivers, canals, bays and creeks cleaner, the city is about to embark on…

ByJarrett Murphy 2 minRead time

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Nov 2018

Government Housing and Homelessness

Comptroller Says Housing Plan is Failing, Calls for More Units for Low-Income NYers

Stringer’s plan would shift the remaining 85,000 units of new construction under the mayor’s plan to serve very low-income and extremely low-income families.

ByJarrett Murphy 8 minRead time

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Nov 2018

Housing and Homelessness Podcasts

Max & Murphy: The City’s Homelessness Crisis and the Mayor’s Housing Plan

A top homelessness policy advocate and the city’s chief affordable-housing development official discuss the pros and cons of the de Blasio housing plan.

ByJarrett Murphy 2 minRead time

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Nov 2018

Housing and Homelessness Video

On the 2019 Housing Agenda: Rent Regs, Rezonings … and Real Affordability?

A video conversation with a top tenant organizer and a leading affordable-housing advocate about what 2019 has in store for New York renters and neighborhoods.

ByJarrett Murphy 2 minRead time

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Nov 2018

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Video

Video: Brooklyn Minister Says What NYCHA Needs Most is City Hall Leadership

Rev. David Brawley, a leader of Brooklyn NYCHA tenants pressing the mayor for answers, says a lack of trust will hamper many of the initiatives the authority has announced as…

ByJarrett Murphy 2 minRead time

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Nov 2018

Housing and Homelessness Video

Q&A: Where Will the City Find New Open Space?

From community gardens between high-rises to an island in the middle of the harbor to abandoned underground chambers, there’s no shortage of ideas for where a growing city might find…

ByJarrett Murphy 5 minRead time

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Nov 2018

Podcasts

Max & Murphy: Is 2019 the Year NYC Fixes its Transit Mess?

A decade after it died without a vote in Albany, congestion pricing is likely to become reality in New York City in 2019. It will be both a milestone and…

ByJarrett Murphy 2 minRead time

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Nov 2018

Economy

HQ2? HQ Boo! The Amazon Deal and NYC’s Progressive Identity

Mayor de Blasio says generous subsidies and a short-cut public process are justified because New York needs the tax dollars Amazon will bring. But there’s a lot more to the…

ByJarrett Murphy 21 minRead time

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Nov 2018

Justice Video