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From Voices of New York: community news outlets across the city report on the killing of four homeless men in Chinatown last week, and on the de Blasio administration’s ongoing attempts to reform the shelter system.
Many tenants facing eviction in housing court are unaware of their right to a publicly funded lawyer, Bronx advocacy organizations contend.
Speaker Johnson’s office says the Council is working to tweak the decades-old Small Business Jobs Survival Act. But advocates are frustrated and fear ‘a completely different watered down version’ of SBJSA is what will pass.
Stakeholders in big real estate, landlords and environmental advocates remain unsure how long it will take for take for the city to release recommendations on how to slash carbon emissions by 40 percent before 2030.
Plus: A deflating sales market in Manhattan and a two-year backlog of rent overcharge complaints.
A key sticking point in the debate over the proposal is the proposed new treatment of land that had been zoned for heavy industrial uses. That’s a concern in other development hubs around the city as well.
Is reality matching those predictions? Is it too early to tell? Have government agencies caught up with the dramatic reorientation of rent policies that the legislature approved?
Tenants and advocates say NYCHA’s annual and interim review processes leads to routine overcharges and drags tenants into years-long disputes.
Plus: how homeless shelters affect property values, a landlord fined for threatening to call ICE
Affordable homeownership was an ingredient in the prescription that brought New York City back from the dead. Now, some experts say, it is homeownership that needs saving in New York.