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Opinion: Property Tax Hikes Would Break Homeowners of Color Like Me. Let Mamdani Tax The Rich.

“The actual solution to the city’s budget crisis is for Gov. Kathy Hochul to finally make our ever-increasing population of billionaires and millionaires pay what they owe in taxes.”

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‘Hear Our Voices’ Podcast: Former Council Speaker Quinn on Mamdani’s Rental Voucher Reversal

“The best way for people to move out of shelter is to have a voucher,” said Christine Quinn, head of the family shelter provider WIN. “It also is economically better…

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Opinion: Energy Bills Are Too High, But Hochul Wants to Gut NY’s Climate Law

“The Legislature must hold firm and not buckle by letting Hochul off the hook. It’s time to move New York forward, not double down on expensive, polluting oil and gas.”

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Opinion: Keep SNAP Theft Reimbursement in New York’s Final Budget

“Across New York City, EBT theft has become a persistent and predictable crisis,” the authors write. “A reimbursement fund is the only immediate mechanism that makes people whole.”

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NYC Housing Calendar, April 28-May 4

City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events and public hearings, plus affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

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Four More NYCHA Developments to Get Open Space Upgrades Under Green Grant Program

Green Space Connections looks to engage tenants and center their input in making better use of open space on housing authority campuses. The initiative previously funded new playgrounds, fitness areas…

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Opinion: Lessons From New York’s Deadly Winter

“Cold weather does not disprove climate change. It reveals its sharpest edge: that as the climate grows more extreme, survival itself becomes unequal, and those without shelter are the first…

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Propuesta federal haría prácticamente imposible que solicitantes de asilo trabajen, dicen defensores

Los defensores de inmigrantes afirman que la propuesta es una forma de disuadir a los solicitantes de asilo en el país, al tiempo que priva a quienes actualmente se encuentran…

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Federal Proposal Would Make It Nearly Impossible for Immigrants Seeking Asylum to Work Legally, Advocates Say

Advocates say the proposed rule is the federal government’s way of discouraging people from seeking asylum in the country, while also depriving those currently in the process of the option to…

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Most Empty Rent-Stabilized Apartments Don’t Need a Lot to be Habitable

“We need homes available to New Yorkers, not pretexts for giving landlords higher rents.”

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