The housing stories you might have missed this week.
HOUSING and DEVELOPMENT
Housing Update: Jersey City will add as many apartments as all of Manhattan in 2019
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Plus: Restaurants are feeling the pain from ever-increasing rental rates, Rep. Nadler weighs in on NYCHA demolition plan.
Albany
Council Could Try to Force City to Boost Value of Homeless Vouchers
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The city’s voucher system has moved tens of thousands of homeless people into housing. But many linger in shelters because the voucher won’t pay enough to cover the rent.
Homeless
Data Drop: Which NYC Neighborhoods Host the Most Homeless-Shelter Beds?
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Mayor de Blasio’s plan to build 90 new homeless shelters around the city has encountered fierce opposition in several neighborhoods. Opponents in different communities point to different reasons for resisting new shelters. Some cite the question of ‘fair share.’
City Council
The Shelter Wars: City’s Need for Beds Meets Opposition in Several Neighborhoods
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Overblown neighborhood fears create a political environment in which local leaders face risks for supporting a sensible shelter policy. In the middle, but rarely heard amid the uproar, are everyday New Yorkers caught in a crisis.
Blackstone Stuyvesant Town
Housing Update: Private Equity Firm Keeping Affordable Apartments Off the Market
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Plus: A proposal for hotel regulation and the influence of hotel-industry cash, landlords blowing past fee limits and a push for rent regulation in Rochester.
Community Boards
Inwood Seeing New City Programs and Developer Interest 1 Year After Rezoning
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Inwood’s rhythms and feel seem unchanged a year after the rezoning. But physical changes are underway, with more to come.
Bronx Housing News
Housing Update: City Lagging on Shelter Construction
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Plus, criticism of NYCHA’s general manager, details on a building collapse, concerns about a major nonprofit and other housing stories you might have missed this week.
Age Justice
Leave the Bronx for One’s Golden Years? ‘Hell No!’
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To get a sense of what older Bronx residents were doing and thinking on a typical day, City Limits and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism teamed up this week to collect a few vignettes of aging in the borough.
Bronx
NYC to Get New Hub for Locally Grown Food
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The new Bronx distribution facility for regional food will boost supply and potentially lower price, backers say.
Homelessness
Mixed Feelings About Mandatory Savings for NYC Homeless
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Advocates say the idea isn’t inherently problematic, but its case-by-case impact bears close monitoring.