Tabloids say there’s a surge in street homelessness. The de Blasio administration disagrees. With only a much maligned, once-a-year survey to go by, it’s hard to say who’s right.
NYCHA’s plan to build affordable housing at existing public housing developments has generated skepticism. But an alliance of advocates, resident leaders and elected officials offered qualified support for the proposal.
The de Blasio administration and allies want to change zoning rules that mandate the creation of off-street parking. But there’s opposition to the idea from some civic groups.
The mayor’s housing and rezoning plan could trigger tenant harassment and displacement, so the city is funding teams of tenant specialists to assist renters in affected areas. Some local advocates…
NYCHA says an extensive visioning process among residents shaped a plan to build new housing developments in the Bronx and Brooklyn. But Tenant Association leaders feel their communities’ feelings weren’t…
The city has identified 181 small city-owned sites for potential affordable-housing development. Eighteen currently have community gardens on them. Ten of those gardens are in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
The city created or preserved more than 20,000 income-targeted units under the mayor’s affordable housing plan last year, the most in a quarter century.
A group of NYCHA residents and advocates say the mayor has been slow to address NYCHA’s problems and want the authority’s chairwoman ousted so the mayor can run the authority…
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