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Housing Update: Key Moments Arrive for Bay Street, Bushwick Rezonings and Comprehensive Planning Push

A new tenant protection czar, a push for comprehensive planning, news from the Bay Street and Bushwick rezoning discussions, ideas for closing the housing-wealth gap and more.

Housing and Homelessness

As the Sea Rises, Will Resiliency—Rather Than Retreat—Be Enough to Save Waterfront NYC?

New York is taking expensive, multifaceted steps to protect residents from the impacts of sea-level rise. But do those measures stack up to the scale of threat the city faces?

Housing and Homelessness In Depth

On City Streets and in Wild Landscapes, the Fight for America’s Soul in 2020 is About Land

From gentrifying urban neighborhoods to wild federal lands, it’s time for a unifying vision of how America’s fundamental asset can serve the public interest.

Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

New Federal Tax Program for Depressed Neighborhoods Stirs Hopes and Concerns

A lack of regulations, and a dearth of information about what impact earlier place-based tax programs had, has some New York advocates and experts worried that Opportunity Zones offer as…

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development NYCHA

Housing Round-up: Rally for Stronger Rent Regs. A Segregation Scorecard. More Development for NYCHA?

Plus: Are New York’s banks doing right by the depositors from low-income communities?

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

Mayor’s New Development Chief is Not a Fan of Comprehensive Planning

Vicki Been has warned, ‘[U]nless we have a much more specific proposal, those voters will have no idea what they are voting for, except that comprehensiveness, and planning, sound reasonable…

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Lawmakers: Axe Tax Break for High-End Condos and Coops to Help Fund NYCHA

Worth about $572 million in fiscal 2019, it’s the fourth largest tax break affecting city revenues.

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

Ever-Shifting Pacific Park Plan Highlights Uncertainty of Big Development Schemes

From the Amazon MOU to the BAM site, alluring menus of public benefits are often dangled as the payoff for large subsidies and lucrative development rights. The project formerly known…

Housing and Homelessness

City Projects Gowanus Rezoning Will Lead to 8,200 New Apartments

The housing projections revealed this week set up the Gowanus rezoning to be the largest apartment producer of all the de Blasio administration’s neighborhood plans.

Housing and Homelessness

One Year After the Rezoning, Has Jerome Avenue Changed?

The de Blasio administration says it has started to deliver on promises of housing help, street improvements and business assistance. Tenant groups and business advocates, however, say their worries remain.

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