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Opinion: NYC Runs on Home-Based Child Care. We Now Have an Opportunity to Ensure it Thrives.

“As parents scramble to cover the costs of child care without financial assistance, family child care educators become the stopgap: the ones who keep the door open so that a…

Climate and Environment Government Health Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Don’t Let History Repeat Itself for NYC’s Basement Apartments

“The flooding crisis and the housing crisis are intertwined, trapping thousands of vulnerable New Yorkers. Experts estimate that tens of thousands of low-income tenants live in illegal basement apartments, which…

Government Health Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Why Disability Access Must Be Central To NYC’s Housing Strategy

“People with disabilities deserve the same opportunity as everyone else to choose where they live, build relationships, participate in their communities, and remain connected to the places they call home…

Government Health Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: A Knicks Win, And NYC’s Eviction Machine

“Over 175,000 New Yorkers in eviction proceedings probably did not fully get to experience the joy felt on that day—and it will matter not that for one shining day of…

Government Health Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Supportive Housing is Under Attack. I’m Proof it Works.

“Federal leaders are shifting funding toward shelters and outdated programs that make housing conditional on sobriety. For people trying to rebuild their lives, it can mean the difference between having…

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: 57,000 Empty Apartments and Not a Word of Apology

“Short-term rental income was, for many of these families, not a luxury. It was the margin between keeping the house and losing it. Local Law 18 closed that door, and…

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Close the Loophole in New York City’s Pay Transparency Law

“By allowing employers to ask applicants for their desired salary after posting a salary range, the law weakens one of its central goals and leaves applicants in a more precarious…

Government Health Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: New York’s Home Care Program Has Brought My Daughter & I Closer

“Without a program like CDPAP, my only options would be a nursing home or a costly institutional care setting, neither of which reflects how I want to live and neither…

Government Health Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: An Affordable Neighborhood on NYC’s Great Barn Island

“The effort to develop an affordable neighborhood on Wards Island can be mixed with the development of a health museum in a way that supports the health and economy of…

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Who Can Afford to Work for New York City?

“The problem is significant enough that we are now conducting a formal survey of our membership to document the full scope of housing instability and homelessness among city workers. That…

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