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Bronx Beautiful
City Limits |
Kate Pastor @BronxBeautiful is a New York City-based journalist and a regular contributor to City Limits.
Bringing it Home: The Affordability Battles of 2015
Tenants Again Sue a Housing Authority Crippled by Federal Cuts
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The suit by residents of the Castle Hill Houses is the latest legal action charging NYCHA with failing to adequately maintain its 334 developments, which house some 400,000 New Yorkers. But NYCHA says federal underfunding makes it impossible to do more.
Affordable Housing
Fear of City’s ‘Good Plan’ for Housing
Jarrett Murphy |
The lower-income, working-class people along the Jerome Avenue corridor are among the New Yorkers most in need of affordable housing. So why is there so much skepticism about the mayor’s plan to make that neighborhood a focus of his housing plan?
Housing and Homelessness
Bronx Sites Where de Blasio’s Affordable Housing Could Go
Kate Pastor |
Moves by real estate companies and analyses from city agencies yield a blueprint for where affordable—and not so affordable—units could go in the borough with the city’s lowest rents and highest poverty. City Limits maps them.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Pol: Schools Need State Help, Not Sensational Headlines
Gustavo Rivera |
A Bronx legislator responds to coverage that linked him to the high number of failing schools in his district. Ignoring social factors or state funding won’t solve the problem, he warns.
Bronx
Key Public Meeting on City’s Bronx River Pollution Plan
Jarrett Murphy |
How clean should the Bronx River be? What should be done to get it there?
Bronx
Deepening Housing Crisis Plays Out in Bronx Courthouse
Kate Pastor |
More petitions were filed in Bronx Housing Court than in any other borough in 2013 — more than 33 percent of the 248,732 filed citywide, though Bronx residents make up less than 20 percent of the city’s population.
Bronx
As Housing Court Strains, Debate in Bronx Over How to Ease Crisis
Kate Pastor |
Tenants who fail to save their homes in Bronx Housing Court often end up in shelters, to which the borough contributes more people than any other. As borough aims to build housing for young professionals, will more reforms to housing court stem the tide?
Bronx
Housing Court Sees Rising Pressure in Most Affordable Borough
Kate Pastor |
The Bronx is the most affordable borough in the city, but its low-income families also have the hardest time affording the rents they’re charged—which are rising. Bronx Housing Court sees perverse incentives, deadbeat public agencies and more.
Bronx
Tenants Battle Landlords and Bureaucracy in Housing Court
Kate Pastor |
Reforms of housing court have done little to change the way business is done there: Via deals negotiated by landlord lawyers in the hallway with tenants who rarely get the help of an attorney or see a judge.
