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As city lawmakers negotiate a package for the “City of Yes” zoning reforms, a report from the Independent Budget Office highlights the importance of city subsidies in creating deeply affordable housing.
Two years into the mayor’s anti-rodent siege, rat infestations persist, but one consequence of the policy change has emerged: a major uptick in homeowner fines. “The summonses started escalating,” said Betty Davis, an 80-year-old retired homeowner on Dean Street who’s received $930 in fines in 2024.
“New housing production isn’t a solution if it doesn’t meet the needs of a majority of New Yorkers…Every neighborhood should and must be doing its part to produce affordable housing, not just market-rate housing, if we are going to turn the city’s housing crisis around.” Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
CityViews are readers’ opinions, not those of City Limits. Add your voice today! You’re paying over half your monthly income in rent, your landlord won’t make repairs, and you’re already rooming with friends or family—your best option? Move.
A record-high 146,733 students were living in the shelter system, doubled up, or staying in hotels, motels, or unsheltered, a new report finds. In some school districts, as many as one in five experienced homelessness.
“Rising unaffordability, worsened by a global pandemic, has created a cycle where many Black and brown New Yorkers, along with other marginalized groups, see leaving the city as their only option.”
New York City has over 124,000 buildings with lead pipes, city data analyzed by the New York League of Conservation Voters shows. Here’s how you can look up your address.
This week, City Council committees will vote on the mayor’s ‘City of Yes’ for housing plan, and hold hearings on deed theft, basement apartments and more.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients can now apply for health coverage through HealthCare.gov and individual state marketplaces. Here’s a guide for accessing care through New York State’s Essential or Qualified Health Plans.
“We must use every dollar of our $113 billion New York City budget as a brick in the wall against whatever fresh hell Trump tries to cook up next year.”
At a recent City Council hearing, attorneys from the law firm Jenner and Block—the new co-monitors of NYCHA under a federal oversight agreement—shared their insights over the past eight months and answered questions about the scope of their work.
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