The de Blasio administration has shown some openness to community land trusts, which offer a promising new approach to providing affordable housing in New York City. Now the Council is…
Advocates want the de Blasio administration to boost the legal staff that goes after landlords who allegedly violate a 2008 law banning discrimination based on the type of legal income…
At one of the 12 centers that NYCHA plans to close, seniors lament the pending loss of a familiar facility. They believe the rationale for closure was manufactured by poor…
Rafael Salamanca said a rezoning slated for his district would be ‘dead on arrival’ if the de Blasio administration did not provide estimates of how many residents and businesses might…
MCIs can be used to effect necessary repairs on rent-stabilized buildings. And MCIs can be used to get around rent guidelines and permanently hike what tenants pay. In theory, at…
Kathryn Garcia discussed the current state of repairs, finances and development plans at the housing authority, as well as what it’s like to work with a federal monitor.
When Margaret Thatcher’s plan to sell off public housing to tenants left hundreds of thousands of deteriorating apartments and low-income families behind, the Brits came up with a different approach.
The segregation of New York City schools is complex, with the system’s four broad racial groups present in at least 12 discernible patterns of singular majority or shared dominance, all…
New York’s approach to land use has plenty of defenders. There are, however, those who disagree. ‘The current system exacerbates our worst selves rather than our best selves,’ a Brooklyn…
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