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NYC Housing Calendar, Nov. 3-9

Mariam Hydara | November 2, 2022

City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

Community Choirs, Discount Studio Space: How Should NYC Reboot the Arts Sector?

Mariam Hydara and Jeanmarie Evelly | November 1, 2022

City Limits is looking to speak to artists and arts groups across the five boroughs to get a better sense of the challenges they’re facing, and how government policies can help address those.

Rise of the ‘SHIMBY’? New Report Outlines Steps to Social Housing

David Brand | November 1, 2022

A new report describes the path to social housing in New York through 20 policy proposals, from overhauling the property tax code and abolishing the city’s tax lien sale to cracking down on landlord violations and boosting public funding for tenant organizing.

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AG Urges New York Officials to Make ‘Deed Theft’ an Explicit Crime

David Brand | October 31, 2022

Under current law, state and county prosecutors are bound by statutes of limitations and forced to rely on charges, like grand larceny, that do not take into account the magnitude of the crime, officials say.

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The Housing Photographer Who Chronicled Sandy’s Destruction in Queens

Jeanmarie Evelly | October 29, 2022

Retired HPD photographer Larry Racioppo spent months without electricity after Hurricane Sandy rebuilding his Rockaway Park home. His photos from that time, and of his neighborhood over the decade since, are the subject of an exhibit on display this month at the Rockaway Initiative for Sustainability and Equity (RISE) in Far Rockaway.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: New York’s Climate Crisis is a Housing Crisis

Deborah Helaine Morris, Thaddeus Pawlowski and Hugo Sarmiento | October 28, 2022

“Hurricane Sandy damaged 10 percent of the city’s housing. In a city with a vacancy rate of 4.5 percent, even a temporary loss of the housing supply isn’t just a problem for those directly displaced: it tightens the market for everyone, making it harder and more expensive to find housing.”

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Council Directs NYC to Establish Micro-Grant Program for DV Survivors

David Brand | October 28, 2022

The legislation directs the Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-based Violence and the Department of Social Services to establish a new fund and dispense modest grants to survivors of domestic violence.

A Family Affair: Parents, Children and NYC's Homelessness Crisis

More NYC Students Were Homeless Last Year, Even as Enrollment Declined

Mariam Hydara | October 28, 2022

Though total enrollment in city schools fell by 3.2 percent, the number of homeless-identifying students increased by 3.3 percent. Those 104,000 students include 29,000 who spent time in shelters, 69,000 temporarily sharing housing with others, and approximately 5,500 who were unsheltered—living in cars, parks, or abandoned buildings.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: NYC Needs Better Enforcement Against Housing Discrimination

Baaba Halm and Amy Blumsack | October 27, 2022

“Often a proxy for racial, disability or family status discrimination, Source of Income (SOI) discrimination prevents voucher holders from accessing housing and undermines the strides that New York City has made investing in rental assistance.”