‘Body Shops specialize in selling the labor of re-entry workers like me because they know how to take advantage of our unique vulnerabilities as Black workers who spent time behind bars.’
2021 elections
The Policy Shop: Human Trafficking, New Taxes and a Greener NYCHA
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Proposals from candidates for mayor and district attorney would bring new levies on Wall Street, residential parking permits, solar panels on NYCHA roofs, and more.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Five Myths About the Gowanus Rezoning
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‘The city, public officials, and developers have all built an increasingly fevered false sense of urgency that shows just how desperate they are to ram through the rezoning while the public is sidelined by the pandemic, economic crisis, and weak sauce virtual hearings.’
housing
De Blasio Housing Plan Created More Affordable Units, But Left Out City’s Most Vulnerable: Report
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‘We did have a major emphasis on affordable housing, and a great deal of spending on it,’ during the de Blasio administration, says Samuel Stein, the report’s author and housing policy analyst for CSS. ‘And yet the problems have persisted.’
NYC Housing
Opinion: Homeless People are Worthy of Housing — It’s Time to Stop the Stigma
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‘Stigmatizing and criminalizing homeless people is just another tool the real estate industry uses to maintain status quo and maximize their bottom lines. The stigmatization must stop — we need to end this prejudice and get honest about who is homeless and why.’
evictions
Advocates Call for Stronger Rental Assistance Programs to Stem Pandemic Evictions
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A coalition of housing and homeless advocates, along with the city’s top real estate group, are calling for the city and state to expand and improve three key rental assistance programs to aid struggling households at risk for eviction — especially before the state’s eviction moratorium expires in May.
City Limits 45th anniversary
45 Stories, 45 Years: City Limits’ History of Covering NYC
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As City Limits celebrates its 45th anniversary, a look back at stories published each year of our four-and-half decades covering New York.
Mapping the Future
City Can Release Gowanus Rezoning Details, But Project Still on Hold: Court
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A a state Supreme Court judge partially lifted a temporary restraining order related to the project Thursday, but the public review process is still on hold.
Development
City Looks to Appeal Decision Halting Two Bridges Towers — Again
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The city’s Law Department argued their second appeal in court Wednesday against two lawsuits which resulted in an earlier injunction stopping the project, which would build four new skyscrapers on the Lower East Side.
Una Ciudad sin Límites
Defensores esperan que legisladores aprueben esta primavera una ley sobre impacto racial en rezonificaciones
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Los defensores esperan que la legislación se someta a votación en el pleno del Ayuntamiento en abril de este año.
Mapping the Future
Gowanus Rezoning on Hold as Court Date Looms
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A lawsuit has temporarily suspended the start of the land use review procedure for the controversial rezoning, which critics want halted until the city can resume in-person meetings once the threat of COVID-19 passes. But other community members are frustrated by the delay.