The de Blasio administration has mostly focused on low-income communities of color as it seeks to rezone and, it says, expand affordable housing and improve quality of life. Are there…
Announcing in an election year a plan to create 90 new homeless shelters takes a certain amount of courage. But that doesn’t mean it will solve the problem.
Supporters of the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan say their rezoning proposal is not just better than the city’s, but also superior to the option of not rezoning at all.
East Harlem Neighborhood Plan participants said it was disappointingly vague, and others said it won’t be enough to counter rezoning displacement pressures.
While some East Harlem stakeholders are negotiating with the administration to improve a rezoning plan for East Harlem, others continue to resist any rezoning altogether.
The Lower East Side waterfront, already grappling with five proposed luxury towers, will now also get a mixed-income development on public housing land.
Eight years after his last run for citywide office, there’s a different mayor and a different housing plan, but Avella’s critique is very much the same.
Affordable housing, tenant protections and lesser density increases are among the demands that a community coalition plans to present to city planners.
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