Mayor Adams announced this week that the Big Apple is getting 180 new electric school buses. But the city’s fleet still has over 10,000 buses running on polluting fossil fuels.
Citywide
NYC Still Slow To Process Most Food Stamp, Cash Aid Applications
Emma Whitford |
The first four months of Fiscal Year 2024 saw timely processing of just 14.3 percent of cash assistance applications—a new low—and 41.6 percent of SNAP applications. Delays can have serious consequences for applicants, from hunger to missed rent payments that can put families at risk of eviction.
Citywide
‘Why Are You Making It So Difficult’? NYC Cash Aid Applicants Face Denial Surge
Emma Whitford and Patrick Spauster |
The volume of cash assistance applications in New York City has increased dramatically in recent years. But as more households receive aid, the city is also issuing more procedural denials, in the hundreds of thousands.
Citywide
11 Years After Hurricane Sandy, Plan to Build Storm Barriers Around NYC Faces Pushback
Mariana Simões |
Environmentalists say an Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to protect the city from coastal storms using walls and gates fails to address other climate change-related threats, like heavy rainfall.
Citywide
Mentores de NYCHA condenan el repentino recorte del programa para jóvenes de la era De Blasio
Tatyana Turner |
“Estoy devastado por la abrupta y violenta retirada de este programa”, dijo Jonathan McLean, director ejecutivo del Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES por sus siglas en inglés), en una manifestación en la alcaldía.
Citywide
NYCHA Mentors Condemn Sudden Cut of De Blasio-Era Youth Program
Tatyana Turner |
“I am devastated by the abrupt, violent pulling of this program,” said Jonathan McLean, chief executive officer of the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services, at a City Hall rally Tuesday.
Bronx
As Bronx’s Largest NYCHA Development Converts to PACT, Tenants Look to Their Neighbors
Tatyana Turner |
As part of a $930 million transaction, what federal officials say is the largest yet, NYCHA added the more than 2,000 apartments at the Edenwald Houses to its portfolio of units that have been converted to PACT, the authority’s initiative that partners with private developers to access funds for public housing repairs.
Citywide
In First Months of Street Vendor Enforcement, Sanitation Seized—Then Donated—32,220 Pounds of Food
Daniel Parra |
Since Sanitation took the street vending enforcement reins, the department has confiscated abandoned or non-compliant material from street vendors in 228 cases, and has donated 32,220 pounds of food and composted another 3,880 pounds.
Citywide
NYCHA’s RAD/PACT and Preservation Trust Plans, Explained
Tatyana Turner |
Across New York City’s cash-strapped public housing complexes, residents are being presented with two dense proposals intended to unlock funding for repairs. How do they differ?
Citywide
NYCHA Plan to Put Units Under Private Management is More Than Halfway Done—But Skepticism Persists
Tatyana Turner |
More than 36,000 NYCHA apartments have either undergone conversion or are in the process of being converted to the RAD-PACT program, which officials say has helped drive billions in needed repairs. But tenants—some of whom will get a chance to vote this year on whether they want their developments to join the initiative—remain distrustful of the change.
Bronx
What’s Happening This Week in NYC Housing? March 23-29
Ryan Pullido |
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.