The limited scope, curious criteria and advisory nature of those studies has some community advocates worried the city will miss the problems Mayor de Blasio’s zoning changes could cause.
‘People tend to have a stereotyped notion of who’s incarcerated and I think when they see people presenting their lives or being creative, they have to reconsider.’
At a conference on displacement, the city and advocates split over whether public and private development is a cause of residential displacement, or a potential antidote to it.
It’s early in the process, and a lot of voices still must be heard, but so far the proposal to rezone the Queens community appears to have received a more…
NEW YORK – Women’s City Club of New York (WCC) will host a centennial conference, From Inequality to Equality: Polices and Programs that Work, on Thursday, September 29 at the…
After months of prodding by housing advocates, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday that he had ordered the signing of an agreement on how to spend a $2 billion downpayment…
While other hurdles to community land trusts remain, the bid by Queens Councilmember Donovan Richards would nudge open the door to an approach used in several other states.
District leader. County and state committee. Alternative delegate to the judicial convention. Those words on our ballots. But what do they mean? An expert panel talks through important Brooklyn legislative…
A coalition that has pushed for more affordable housing and local job protections says it was ‘deeply disappointed’ by a scoping document released last week.
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