Depending on how you look at it, a proposed rezoning could either be a necessary precaution against displacement or a catalyst for rent increases in existing buildings.
A successful rezoning is not out of the question, the coalition believes, but is contingent upon the administration’s willingness to adopt an array of mitigation strategies.
Cheap land is a key ingredient in building housing for very low-income New Yorkers. Is the city making the best use it can of the land it already owns?
Residents in Brooklyn want to know how much money will be generated from planned development on NYCHA land. Their counterparts in Manhattan want to know the other sites where the…
The de Blasio administration says there’s need for city-subsidized housing across a wide range of incomes. But data indicates middle-class households face a far less severe affordability problem.
One couldn’t help but sense some impatience for answers at Thursday night’s first city planning meeting, which launched the de Blasio administration’s study to craft a neighborhood plan for the…
The Economic Development Corporation seems to have slowed down the process for rezoning the northern Manhattan neighborhood amid a complex mix of support and skepticism among local residents.
A lawsuit challenging New York’s practice of setting aside affordable apartments for nearby residents is still alive after a judge rejected a bid by the de Blasio administration to have…
In the past, neighborhoods like Gowanus have been rezoned to permit residential and industrial to exist in close proximity. Leaders of the ‘Bridging Gowanus’ effort now want to require it.
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