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Welcome to City Limits’ NYC Housing Calendar, a weekly feature where we round up the latest housing and land use-related events and hearings, as well as upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
“We have 10,000 residents and no decent park here,” Judith Dailey, a tenant association leader for the public housing complex, told a City Limits’ reporter in February 1994. “There was no one there to represent that interest.”
“It is always worth exploring developments on other sites. However, they should be additional sites for housing, not alternatives, and support for additional developments should not be contingent on the outcomes of other projects.”
The draft plan marks the first step toward a formal land use proposal from the city for 42 Manhattan blocks where housing is currently restricted.
Tenants and advocates say the funding would repair 40,000 apartments and help cover outstanding rent arrears accumulated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hasta finales de enero, la ciudad había comprado 20.500 billetes de avión o autobús para reubicar a los inmigrantes fuera de la ciudad, por un total de $7.6 millones de dólares, según informaron las autoridades el martes. Esto es tres veces el presupuesto anual de las dos oficinas principales que gestionan los servicios para las comunidades de inmigrantes de la ciudad.
As of the end of January, the city had purchased 20,500 plane or bus tickets to relocate immigrants in its shelter system to destinations outside the five boroughs, totaling $7.6 million, officials said Tuesday—three times the annual budget of the two main offices that handle services for the city’s immigrant communities.
While lawmakers continue to negotiate housing initiatives and tenant protections in Albany, supporters of the Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act are positioning the bill as one of the state’s best shots at passing meaningful housing legislation this year. “It’s hard to put your guard up when it’s the neighborhood church saying we want to build,” sponsor Andrew Gounardes told City Limits.
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
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