City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Defending NYC’s Blue Collar COVID-19 Recovery
John Santos |
“We can’t let billionaires disregard the labor standards that generations of New Yorkers have fought to establish.”
Government
Cash Assistance Recipients Navigate Revived Work Requirements, As City Processing Times Tick Up
Jeanmarie Evelly and Anastasia Tomkin |
Advocates worry that the reinstated rules will inevitably lead to some New Yorkers losing the aid they rely on to make ends meet, especially in the face of a steep rise in the number of people getting the assistance—alongside increased bureaucratic hurdles for recipients since the pandemic began.
Housing and Homelessness
¿Quién puede programar citas en el Centro de navegación de recursos para solicitantes de asilo y quién no?
Daniel Parra |
“La imposibilidad de conseguir una cita para el asilo tiene profundas consecuencias en la vida de los migrantes”, afirma Sophie Bah Kouyate, gestora de servicios de African Communities Together. “Sin acceso a estas citas, los migrantes quedan a menudo en un estado de limbo, incapaces de obtener un estatuto legal o acceder a servicios esenciales”.
Housing and Homelessness
Who Can Get Appointments at NYC’s Asylum Application Help Center, And Who Can’t?
Daniel Parra |
While shelter staff are the primary schedulers of appointments at the city’s Asylum Application Help Center, a network of community-based organizations and legal providers can refer cases too. Yet city guidelines obtained by City Limits stipulate the groups can only refer migrants who are “within 4 weeks of their one-year filing deadline” for asylum.
Government
Lo que necesita saber sobre: ¿Cómo cónyuges indocumentados pueden aplicar al programa Manteniendo a las Familias Unidas?
Daniel Parra |
El 19 de agosto, el Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de Estados Unidos (USCIS por sus siglas en inglés) empezó a aceptar solicitudes para el primer paso del permiso de permanencia temporal (parole in place) en el país como parte del programa Manteniendo a las Familias Unidas (Keeping Families Together). Sin embargo, una semana después un juez de Texas suspendió temporalmente el permiso de permanencia temporal en el país. Esto es lo que sabemos.
Government
What You Need to Know: How Can Undocumented Spouses Apply for ‘Parole in Place’?
Daniel Parra |
On Aug. 19, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) began accepting applications for the first step of the process under the Keeping Families Together program. A week later, however, a Texas judge put a temporary hold on parole. Here’s what we know.
Government
Spiking Evictions Renew Calls to Reform NYC Marshals System
Patrick Spauster |
Last year, marshals served more than 13,000 evictions, up from 5,000 in 2022, and just 268 in 2021, when the pandemic eviction moratorium was still in place. Over the past five years, six of the city’s 28 marshals were cited for errors during evictions.
Education
1 Million NYC Households Lost Their Internet Subsidies. Plans to Revive the Aid Are in Political Purgatory
Anastasia Tomkin |
The Affordable Connectivity Program, which offered up to $30 a month towards broadband service for low-income and other eligible households, ran out of funds early this summer.
Economy
PÓDCAST: ¿Cuánto se calcula que pagaron en impuestos los inmigrantes indocumentados en 2022?
Daniel Parra |
Un reciente informe del Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, una organización sin fines de lucro que analiza política tributaria en los Estados Unidos, calcula que los inmigrantes indocumentados pagaron $96,700 millones en impuestos federales, estatales y locales en 2022.
Labor
City’s Plan to Address Uber & Lyft Driver ‘Lockouts’ Won’t Resolve Crisis, Union Claims
CLARIFY News |
New York City officials secured agreements from Uber and Lyft to “drastically reduce access restrictions” for drivers. But the New York Taxi Workers Alliance called the deal “a corporate give-away” that doesn’t do enough to improve workers’ conditions.
