Sadef Ali Kully
A sign protesting rent collections in Brooklyn during the height of the Coronavirus epidemic.
A pair of bills, recently introduced the State Senate, would extend the state’s current eviction moratorium until a year after the pandemic emergency ends, and provide rental assistance vouchers for homeless families or those facing the loss of housing because of COVID-19.
A survey shows stiff opposition to plans for developing NYCHA land or converting buildings to private management.
The city’s land-use review process, which was shut down in the spring in the face of the pandemic, needs a quick restart, a Council leader says—quicker than the one the de Blasio administration appears to be contemplating.
The final fiscal 2021 spending plan staved off cuts to smaller housing programs, but retained a shift of roughly a billion dollars in capital spending on the mayor’s affordability plan.
Resisting budget cuts is just part of the plan, they say. Changing how the housing market works is the deeper goal.
The state legislature is considering a bill, introduced in January, which would authorize local municipalities to lend money to public banks and authorize public ownership of stock in them.
While the borough presidency is not as powerful as it once was when the BPs had votes on the seven-member board of estimate that effectively ran the city, it still does have an important advisory role on land-use policy.
With the RGB vote largely a fait accompli following its earlier preliminary approval of the one-year freeze, housing advocates’ biggest concern has been the looming reopening of housing court, which will allow for eviction cases to move forward.
Por mucho que la reapertura sea una prueba de si los neoyorquinos pueden evitar una segunda oleada de enfermedades, también revelará si las medidas tomadas hasta ahora son toda la ayuda que se necesita.
An appeals court heard arguments over the annulled Inwood rezoning just days after activists sued over the approval process for the Flushing Waterfront plan.