With delayed timelines and ongoing construction, Red Hook residents are still living in limbo as they wait for a $568 million resiliency project to come to life, more than a decade after Sandy slammed the complex.
Health and Environment
PODCAST: ¿Cómo beneficiarios de DACA serán incluidos en Ley del Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio?
Daniel Parra |
El pasado 3 de mayo el presidente Biden anunció un cambio en la definición de “legalmente presente” aplicable a la elegibilidad para cobertura de Ley del Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio, creada por el expresidente Barack Obama.
Government
PODCAST: ¿Qué se sabe sobre las propuestas en inmigración para un segundo mandato de Trump?
Daniel Parra |
Para estas elecciones, la Unión Americana de Libertades Civiles (American Civil Liberties Union o ACLU por su siglas en inglés) ha empezado a analizar los planes para un segundo mandato de Trump y Biden centrándose en varios temas específicos. El primer reporte es sobre los planes de Trump en inmigración.
Government
Exit Unknown: Where Do People Go After Leaving NYC Homeless Shelters?
Patrick Spauster |
Amid a steep rise in people living in shelter, few are exiting the system, and even fewer are finding housing, a City Limits analysis of public data shows.
Government
Try It Out: City Limits’ NYC ‘Good Cause’ Rent Calculator
Emma Whitford |
Tenants who believe they may be covered by New York’s new Good Cause Eviction Law can plug in their current rent to see the maximum rent that would be deemed reasonable. Anything above that, the landlord could have to justify in court.
Health and Environment
Rain, Rain, Go Away. New York Kids Are Trying to Play.
Aria Young, Feet in 2 Worlds |
Across New York City, workers are tearing out concrete and asphalt from schoolyards and replacing them with rain-absorbing surfaces that are more climate resilient, according to reporting by Aria Young of Feet in 2 Worlds.
Education
What Do NYC Youth Want for Earth Day? An End to Fossil Fuels.
Mariana Simões |
“My house gets flooded every single year,” 16-year old Diana Ramirez told City Limits, one of many New York City youth who took to the streets in the lead up to Earth Day to demand people in power stop funding fossil fuels. “The rising sea levels and flooding caused by climate change are affecting me heavily.”
Government
‘Good Cause’ Negotiations Raise Tricky Question: What’s in a Portfolio?
Patrick Spauster and Emma Whitford |
Viewed in isolation, a proposal to exempt small residential portfolios from new eviction protections could exclude hundreds of thousands of New York City apartments. Perhaps more significantly, this type of estimate isn’t easy to make.
Immigration
PÓDCAST: ¿Por qué la ley estatal de inmigración SB4 de Texas vuelve a los tribunales?
Daniel Parra |
La ley estatal de inmigración SB4 de Texas, que convertiría en delito estatal cruzar la frontera entre puertos de entrada y permitiría a la policía arrestar a las personas que lo hagan, volverá a los tribunales esta semana el miércoles.
Education
¿En qué estados se concentran la mayor cantidad de latinas con títulos universitarios en los Estados Unidos?
Daniel Parra |
Los estados que concentran el mayor número de latinas con título universitario son Vermont (54 por ciento), la capital del país Washington, D.C —conocida formalmente como el Distrito de Columbia— (53 por ciento) y Maine (41 por ciento). Los estados con más bajos porcentajes fueron Nevada (12 por ciento), Arkansas (12 por ciento) y Dakota del Norte (11 por ciento).
Government
Tenant Advocates Descend on Albany, Refusing to Let ‘Good Cause’ Be Evicted from the Conversation
Chris Janaro |
As elected officials attempt to hammer out a housing deal before the state’s budget deadline at the end of the month, advocates want lawmakers to know they’re still fighting for tenant protections that aren’t watered down.
