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Housing Events in NYC This Week: Rent Guidelines Board Final Vote
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Housing and land use-related events taking place in the week ahead, as well as affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
Adi Talwar
The nine-member Rent Guidelines Board, picture here at Tuesday's meeting, was formed in the late 1960s to regulate a subset of city apartments in response to falling vacancy rates and rising rents.
Housing and land use-related events taking place in the week ahead, as well as affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
The City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth (CLARIFY), with the CUNY Journalism Council and Press Pass NYC, is now taking applications from New York City high school students for two journalism training camps this summer in Brooklyn and Queens.
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
Public libraries have long been a refuge for New Yorkers experiencing homelessness, and have emerged as an important resources for asylum seekers in recent months. While Mayor Adams exempted the three library systems from his latest round of belt-tightening measures, they still face a collective $36 million in cuts under his executive budget proposal.
El alcalde defendió la medida y dijo que la ciudad tenía pocas opciones mientras lucha por mantenerse al día con una población en refugios en aumento. Pero los defensores dicen que el cambio socava la red de seguridad social de la ciudad y las protecciones para garantizar que las familias sin hogar con niños tengan acceso a condiciones seguras.
The mayor defended the move, saying the city had little choice as it struggles to keep up with a ballooning shelter population. But advocates say the change undermines the city’s social safety net and protections to ensure homeless families with children have access to safe conditions.
Welcome to City Limits’ NYC Housing Calendar, a weekly feature where we round up the latest housing and land use-related events and hearings
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Protestors crowded the F train station Wednesday in response to the chokehold death of Jordan Neely, chanting “Housing, not cops,” and “Homeless lives matter” alongside repeated calls for justice.