“Addressing New York City’s organic waste output isn’t just about keeping our streets rodent free. It’s about communities across the country where our waste ends up in polluting incinerators and towering landfills, including the largest in the state: Seneca Meadows.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: City’s Homeless Count Misses a Critical Population—Unhoused New Yorkers in Hospitals
Bonnie Mohan and Tess Sommer |
“The city’s annual census–known as the Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE)–has served as a tool for measuring our progress toward ending street homelessness. However, HOPE misses a critical component of NYC’s ecosystem: hospitals. By ignoring this population segment, the city underestimates the true number of unhoused individuals.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Breaking Down Unnecessary Barriers to Electrification in New York
Michael Hernandez |
“The Building Code Council can and should take action now. They have the legal tools to change the code to include electrification in new constructions as a mechanism to achieve climate goals.”
Economy
¿Cómo se organizó la primera asociación de vendedores ambulantes en la plaza Corona?
Daniel Parra |
En 2021 el Concejo de la Ciudad aprobó una ley que debía ampliar el número de permisos a vendedores, pero un retraso de más de seis meses del Departamento de Salud e Higiene Mental no ha permitido que se asignen estos permisos prometidos. Poco después del retraso administrativo, un grupo de vendedores ambulantes formó la primera Asociación de Vendedores Ambulantes en la plaza Corona, en Queens, Nueva York.
Bronx
Sanitation Department Adds 200 ‘Smart Bins’ in NYC’s Latest Composting Expansion
Mary Cunningham |
Organic waste collection has become a growing priority as the city seeks to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills, though its composting efforts have been rolled out in fits and starts over the last decade.
Government
Hochul’s ‘Cap-and-Invest’ Climate Plan Stirs Skepticism From Environmentalists & Polluters Alike
Mariana Simões |
The program will charge companies for carbon pollution and introduce a novel rebate initiative that promises to distribute $1 billion to New Yorkers. But environmentalists say its success will rest on how exactly the state designs the program, to ensure it doesn’t allow companies to essentially pay to pollute without meaningfully lowering emissions.
Government
NYC Housing Calendar, Jan. 19-26
Jeanmarie Evelly |
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: LaSalle’s Defenders Are Wrong—The Court of Appeals is Political
Janos Marton |
“The notion of the law as something outside of politics has surely been put to rest by the recent Supreme Court confirmation processes and the right-wing decisions of that Court. Most Americans now agree: the nation’s highest court is in fact a political body.”
Economy
NYC’s Homeless Shelter Population Ballooned in 2022. How Will Leaders Address the Crisis This Year?
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Thursday night, the same day Mayor Eric Adams unveiled a preliminary budget focused on “fiscal discipline” and two days after Gov. Kathy Hochul laid out her priorities for the year ahead in her State of the State speech, 70,525 people slept in a New York City Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelter.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Hochul’s Affordable Development Plan Can Transform NY Housing
Rachel Fee |
“New York finally has a big, bold, and brave plan to really make the state affordable. It will attack the lack of housing supply, the inequitable distribution of housing, and the reticence of some local leaders to do their part.”
Government
¿Qué cambió con las nuevas medidas del Título 42 anunciadas en enero de 2023?
Daniel Parra |
El pasado 5 de enero, el Presidente Joe Biden anunció una nueva estrategia de gestión de la migración en la frontera sur del país que contiene nuevas medidas tanto para la admisión al país, como para la expulsión del mismo.