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City Council Eyes Ambitious Set of Housing Bills Before Year’s End

This year, the City Council’s focus will be on a range of bills aimed at eradicating lead poisoning and addressing the needs of the city’s homeless population, among other housing…

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

‘Better Than Nothing’ Won’t Cut it for Critics of Brooklyn Housing Development

A new building that will generate funds to support Brooklyn Bridge Park could have been all luxury rentals, but instead will set aside a majority of its apartments for specific…

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development NYCHA

At NYCHA’s Fulton Houses, A Bitter Divide Over the Future of the Development

At the Fulton Houses, activists and residents are fighting a proposal to demolish two buildings and allow a private developer to build market-rate apartments. But NYCHA says the plan is…

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

Call to Shift NYC Development Away from Areas at Highest Climate Risk

The New York Building Congress says there must be comprehensive, regional planning to meet the increased risk of flooding—and imaginative thinking about how to live amid higher waters.

Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Regulating Development is the City Council’s Job. Let Them Do It.

‘Last winter another agency, the New York City Department of City Planning deliberately circumvented the Council’s oversight when it told the City Planning Commission that it had to approve four…

Land Use and Development NYCHA Podcasts

Max & Murphy: Manhattan Beep Challenges Multiple Mayoral Development Moves

From the banks of the East River to a NYCHA development uptown, Gale Brewer has resisted efforts by Bill de Blasio to undertake major development projects without going through ULURP.

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development NYCHA

Housing Round-up: Rally for Stronger Rent Regs. A Segregation Scorecard. More Development for NYCHA?

Plus: Are New York’s banks doing right by the depositors from low-income communities?

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

Mayor’s New Development Chief is Not a Fan of Comprehensive Planning

Vicki Been has warned, ‘[U]nless we have a much more specific proposal, those voters will have no idea what they are voting for, except that comprehensiveness, and planning, sound reasonable…

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

Ever-Shifting Pacific Park Plan Highlights Uncertainty of Big Development Schemes

From the Amazon MOU to the BAM site, alluring menus of public benefits are often dangled as the payoff for large subsidies and lucrative development rights. The project formerly known…

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

Heights of Potential Development Concern Some in Gowanus

Some residents fear potential 22-story towers on the Canal corridor. Planning officials say such buildings would be rare under the proposed rezoning but are part of the trade-off for getting…

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