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“CityFHEPS vouchers are meant to make life easier for tenants and their families facing eviction, or those families who have been previously unhoused, by paying ongoing rent. That sounds great on paper, but far too often the slow pace of the system renders the vouchers useless.”
The National Public Housing Museum will open early next year in Chicago, and will feature the artwork of a NYCHA artist on its membership card.
Grant support from the Scripps Howard Fund will allow City Limits to host interns for three semesters beginning in the summer of 2025, who will produce stories and investigations for the Spanish/English news initiative, Una Ciudad sin Límites.
El anuncio se produce después de meses de quejas de inmigrantes y solicitantes de asilo por la falta de correo en los refugios de la ciudad, lo que complica sus casos de inmigración y otros esfuerzos para establecer sus vidas aquí, como City Limits informó en julio.
“Its free market approach is an inefficient way to alleviate the affordability crisis. Really doing so would require that the government subsidize or invest more in permanently affordable housing.”
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Drilling for more oil and gas may not have legs in progressive New York, where local laws bar these efforts. But larger climate goals could suffer a blow.
“Lawmakers up in Albany have already proposed legislation to protect ground lease co-op residents around the state. We need standard rights and protections and New York has the chance to grant them.”
The announcement follows months of complaints by immigrants and asylum seekers about missing mail in city shelters, complicating their immigration cases and other efforts to establish their lives here, as City Limits was the first to report in July.
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