Nanoom House has converted a two-story single family home into a refuge for 20 or so homeless Korean immigrants. Facing an onslaught of pressure from neighbors, the city and their landlord, the shelter is fighting for its existence.
Bronx
Film Offers Instruction on Self-Defense Against Urban Displacement
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A new short film extracts lessons from the experiences of community advocates in the Bronx, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles to inform neighborhood efforts at survival.
Bronx
Opportunity Zones Show Scant Impact in the Bronx as Key Deadline Passes
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Brokers predicted that the kind of investments the tax incentive could attract would create an entirely new borough. But a year later, the fervor around opportunity zones in the Bronx has shrunk from a clap to a whisper.
2020 campaign
Homelessness Lurks Behind the Scenes of New Hampshire’s Primary
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New Hampshire is one of the least-poor states. But pockets of need and rising concerns about homelessness hint at vulnerabilities the mainstream campaign narrative overlooks.
Elections
In Election Rematch, Brooklyn Congressional Candidates Serve Up Housing Policy
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Rep. Yvette Clarke has proposed changing the way affordable-housing rents are set, while challenger Adem Bunkeddeko proposes a sweeping plan to build low-income housing.
2020 campaign
This Year, Running for President Means Talking About the Housing Crisis
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More than in any campaign in recent memory, housing has become a key topic in the 2020 presidential race, reflecting a national housing crisis spanning from megacities like New York and San Francisco to smaller urban centers like Cleveland and rural areas like Randolph County, Georgia.
Homelessness
Amid Youth Homeless Crisis, NYC Has Ramped up Shelter Capacity
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The city now operates 753 shelter beds for young people between ages 16 and 20 across the city, a 500-bed increase over what existed when Mayor Bill de Blasio took office in 2014.
A Family Affair: Parents, Children and NYC's Homelessness Crisis
NYC’s Homeless Hotel Population Surges as City Grapples with Housing Crisis
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When Mayor de Blasio in 2017 announced a plan to end the use of hotels as homeless shelters by 2023, there were about 7,500 homeless people in hotel rooms paid for by the city. Today, there are 11,750.
Brooklyn
Listen: Gentrification’s Winners, Losers and Questions
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Three experts on neighborhood change discuss what the G word has meant for New York City, its neighborhoods and their people.
Brooklyn
Bill Would Make Brooklyn a Real Estate ‘Cease-and-Desist’ Zone
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Advocates hoping to fend off aggressive investor interest think they might get a new defensive weapon: a cease-and-desist zone covering all of Brooklyn.
The Max & Murphy Show
Rezonings, Roadblocks and the Mayor’s Housing Plan
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Clashes with Councilmembers in two neighborhoods appear to have scotched neighborhood rezonings that are key to the mayor’s housing plan.