Citywide
NYC Housing Calendar, June 25-July 1
Jeanmarie Evelly |
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
Government
City Moves to Resurrect Tax Breaks for Renovations, But Housing Stakeholders Are Split
Chris Janaro |
The city’s lawmakers and housing agency seem poised to reintroduce and pass a more affordability-focused J-51 tax program to help fix up apartments—but some housing stakeholders are lukewarm on the prospect.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Don’t Let Misconceptions Kill The Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act
Andrew Gounardes |
“We don’t need to choose between landmarking and affordable housing. We can have both. I wrote this law to explicitly enshrine and protect existing landmarking processes across the state, protections I further strengthened in a recent amendment to the bill.”
Government
Homeless Drop-In Center Mainchance Gets Fresh Chance to Fight Closure
Emma Whitford and Patrick Spauster |
A state judge has agreed to hear arguments in late July, temporarily protecting the Midtown East site beyond the city’s planned June 30 contract termination.
Government
Amid Heat Wave, Eligible New Yorkers Can Apply for State’s Air Conditioner Subsidy—For Now
Anastasia Tomkin |
The Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP)’s cooling assistance benefit has helped tens of thousands of low-income New Yorkers beat the heat. But experts and advocates say it could do more, criticizing its limited reach—funding has run out by mid- to late-July the last two summers—and failure to grant complementary utility bill assistance.
Citywide
NYC Stabilized Tenants to See Third Round of Rent Hikes in Adams Era
Emma Whitford |
Civil disobedience led to arrests Monday evening as a vote cued up rent increases of 2.75 percent on one-year leases and 5.25 percent on two-year leases for the city’s rent stabilized tenants.
Citywide
NYC Housing Calendar, June 17-24
Jeanmarie Evelly |
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
Brooklyn
‘We Don’t Move like We Used To’: NYCHA Seniors React to Planned Unarmed Security Cut
Tatyana Turner |
With two weeks left until NYCHA plans to eliminate its security program at senior buildings, tenants weigh in on their safety needs.
Government
City’s Yearly Street Homeless Estimate Climbs to 2nd Highest Number on Record
Jeanmarie Evelly |
“There were a lot of systems that weren’t working perfectly before COVID, and then during COVID really broke down and haven’t necessarily come back all the way,” Department of Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park told City Limits in an interview Thursday.
Government
City Limits Earns Silurians Press Club Honors
Jeanmarie Evelly |
City Limits received Merit Awards in environmental journalism and feature photography, and also collaborated on one of the projects that earned the top investigative reporting prize.
