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Housing and Homelessness

City Limits’ coverage of homelessness in New York City is supported by Trinity Church Wall Street.

More housing-related series:

  • A Family Affair: Parents, Children and NYC’s Homelessness Crisis
  • Mapping the Future: The Politics and Policy of Land Use in NYC
An open fire hydrant spraying water on a Brooklyn street

City's Heat-Vulnerable Neighborhoods Need More Cooling Centers, Comptroller Says

By Liz Donovan | August 5, 2022

Queens had the fewest number of cooling centers based on population density with only five for every 100,000 people, while Manhattan had seven, an analysis by City Comptroller Brad Lander’s office found. East Flatbush was the neighborhood with the worst access to cooling centers based on vulnerability.

New York City Housing Calendar, Aug 3-10

NYC Mayor Eric Adams talking into a microphone at a press conference podium

Mayor’s Emergency Declaration Will Speed Shelter Openings as Homeless Population Rises 

Thousands of Formerly Flooded Homes Sold Last Year in New York: Report

East New York Families in Limbo as Developer Plans High Rise to Replace Crumbling Housing Complex

Government

Want to Rezone in Western Queens? Here’s How to Win Over the Councilmember

By David Brand | August 1, 2022

Councilmember Julie Won issued a list of “land use principles”  she said she will apply to new projects in her district that require Council-approved changes to the city’s zoning code—including a controversial proposal to build a 3,000-unit complex in southern Astoria.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
LIRR entrance at Penn Station

Opinion: We Need a Real Penn Station Plan, Not a Neighborhood Replacement Scheme

By Sam Turvey | August 1, 2022

“Our leaders seem blithely unaware that we have within our grasp a once-in-a-century opportunity to create a transit hub worthy of New York, which many of us still think of as ‘the greatest city on Earth.'”

Housing and Homelessness
Fountains in front of the Parkchester apartment complex in The Bronx

Bronx Rental Complex Must Accept Housing Vouchers, Judge Rules 

By David Brand | August 1, 2022

The decision Friday marks the first time a New York court has ruled that minimum-income policies for people with full-rent subsidies violate city and state laws, said Housing Works senior attorney Armen Merjian, who represented the family trying to get into Parkchester Preservation Company’s apartments.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: NY’s Mitchell-Lama Housing Should Be Preserved, Not Dismantled

By Jerald Isseks | July 29, 2022

“Dissolving our building’s Mitchell-Lama status would be a small but significant injustice in an already deeply unequal city. Shareholders who have long benefitted from the program would be autonomously divesting some of the city’s affordable housing stock, and profiting from the conversion.”

Cover photo from City Limits magazine in April 1990
City Limits 46th Anniversary

Flashback Friday: NYC’s ‘Rebel’ Squatters, 1990

By Jeanmarie Evelly | July 29, 2022

“My whole crew is squatting,” Ronaldo Casanova told City Limits in April of 1990, when he was organizing fellow squatters on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. “We have no other choice or we’re out on the streets.”

City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York

Some Rikers Detainees Had No Air Conditioning During Heat Wave, Lawmakers Say

By Liz Donovan | July 27, 2022

In the week before the recent heatwave, Department of Correction officials testified at a hearing that nearly 200 individuals incarcerated at the jail with conditions that are exacerbated by heat were still without air conditioning.

housing events

New York City Housing Calendar, July 27 to August 3

By David Brand | July 27, 2022

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: The Penn Station Plan is a Job Well Done. It’s Time We Acknowledge That

By Dan Biederman | July 27, 2022

“The one thing that unites all New Yorkers is our collective disdain for the derelict old Penn Station. That’s why it makes no sense why some would come out against a plan to actually make it and the surrounding district better.”

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
A bedroom in a supportive housing complex in Harlem

Opinion: Supportive Housing is NYC’s Best Tool for Addressing Homelessness

By Jim Dill | July 26, 2022

“Shelters are not a stand-alone solution and just because we remove homeless people from our subways and streets doesn’t mean they have found a home.”

Affordable Housing
The entrance to Bronx Housing Court

NYC Evictions Have Increased Every Month This Year

By David Brand | July 26, 2022

So far this year, city marshals have executed at least 1,527 residential evictions, according to statistics maintained by the Department of Investigation (DOI). The true number of legal evictions is likely higher because DOI updates its database only after a marshal reports an eviction, which can take days or weeks.

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