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Opinion: The Housing Lottery Promised Stability. Then The Rent Went Up.

“For working-class families, seniors, people with disabilities, and fixed-income New Yorkers, those yearly increases can slowly erode the very stability affordable housing is supposed to provide.”

Economy Education Government Opinion

Opinion: How NYC Is Helping Student Loan Borrowers Navigate Federal Uncertainty—For Free

Starting July 1, borrowers currently enrolled in the SAVE Plan have 90 days to switch to a different repayment plan.

Government Housing and Homelessness Justice Opinion

Opinion: NYC Needs a Fully Funded Commission on Human Rights

“Federal civil rights enforcement is becoming less reliable, so local enforcement is even more critical—especially because New York City’s Human Rights Law provides protections that state and federal law do…

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development NYCHA Opinion Uncategorized

Opinion: As NYCHA Turns More Public Housing Over to Private Management, Lessons from the UK

“Many have claimed they can subvert the profit-seeking instincts of the development industry,” the author writes. “Once private financial interests are invited into public spaces, sooner or later, their basic…

ARTS and CULTURE Climate and Environment Education Government Opinion

Opinion: Summer Camp is Vital. And Unaffordable.

“Summer camp should be recognized as part of the childcare ecosystem, especially for families who are too often locked out of these life-changing experiences because of cost.”

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Small Owners Are Struggling with Affordability, Too

“If New York City truly values affordable housing, it must also value the economic sustainability of the buildings and small owners providing that housing.”

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: The Economic Case for a Rent Freeze

“The economic data shows that holding rents steady for one year—or even four—will not substantially disrupt the city budget nor the housing stock.”

Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Homeless Youth Are Being Excluded, Yet Again. We Hoped for Better From Mayor Mamdani.

“CityFHEPS vouchers would give youth a real pathway out of homelessness, rather than forcing them into the adult homeless shelter system.”

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: New York’s Affordable Housing Divide

“The core problem with New York’s housing affordability is not, at its heart, a rent regulation problem. It is a divergence problem. Rents for existing affordable units have become increasingly…

Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: More Than Half of New Yorkers Can’t Afford New York. That Should Alarm All of Us.

“The impact of this is already visible across New York’s shelter system. Many families are working, trying to secure housing, and ready to move forward. But they cannot afford to…

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