“We know that social and emotional skills in schools support academic success. It is crucial that we continue to develop these competencies that contribute to our young people graduating from high school, and thriving in careers and in life. Young people will lose if we hamstring their teachers by letting go of the DESSA.”
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Opinion: As Century 21 Returns Downtown, Finding Forgotten Members of the 9/11 Community
Michael Barasch |
“Over 600 union retail workers worked at the department store across the street from the World Trade Center. Many of them are now facing health challenges related to their toxic exposure…They, and so many others who were present there during and after the 9/11 attacks, need to be notified of their rights.”
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Opinion: Real Estate Industry Plays Key Role in New York’s Sustainability Plans
Jolie Milstein |
“The real estate industry will play a key role in implementing these new standards and must move quickly to do so. That task might seem daunting, but the affordable housing sector has demonstrated that sustainable construction is both feasible and financially viable.”
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Opinion: Teachers’ Health Plan Debate Speaks to Larger Problems with UFT Leadership
Arthur Goldstein |
“Those of us teaching the children of New York City do the work. Not only are we not getting the support we need, but we have leadership that actively works against our interests. This has to change.”
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Opinion: Targeting SNAP With Work Requirements Misses the Point
Brad Martin |
“The focus on cutting life-saving programs like SNAP as a method to reduce the government debt is disingenuous, at best, and self-serving and cynical at worst. Taxing the rich would be a far more effective way to address the debt.”
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Opinion: Improving Mental Health Outcomes in NYC Begins at Birth
Evelyn Blanck and Andrew Cleek |
“To most effectively and efficiently address New York City’s mental health challenges, we must focus on our youngest residents and their caregivers.”
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Opinion: Taking Vacant Land And Power Back from the NYPD
Brianna Soleyn |
“These same vacant lots have 314,048 square feet of residentially zoned land on which new affordable housing units may be built, as well as 114,2071 square feet with the potential for manufacturing space that could bring good jobs to the local community.”
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Opinion: How Media Reports Got it Wrong on Rent Guidelines Board ‘Increases’
Avi Garelick and Andrew Schustek |
“The result of the latest reporting only serves to reinforce an unequal economic standing between landlords and tenants. Through its limited scope, this reporting causes unnecessary panic, potential demoralization, and ultimately a false sense of relief if the board goes with anything lower than the reported high end number.”
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Opinion: With Community Land Trusts Back in the Spotlight, Lessons from 1970s NYC
Harriet Cohen |
“Now, longtime neighborhood residents across the city, people who put up with dangerous housing conditions for decades because they had no choice, but who fought to improve their neighborhoods, finally have the best chance in decades to get public support.” Adi Talwar Three buildings in the East Village are a part of the Cooper Square Community Land Trust. CityViews are readers’ opinions, not those of City Limits. Add your voice today! The Lower East Side, 1970s.It was a short five blocks from my apartment on East 4th Street, between Avenues C and D, to my job at a local community organization in the abandoned P.S. 64 on East 9th Street, later re-named El Bohio.
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Opinion: It’s Time for Supportive Housing to Live Up to its Name
Anita Coote, Corey O’Connor, Trish Taylor, Sean Murray and BM |
“For decades, the government agencies that oversee and fund the supportive housing systems have disregarded the voices and needs of applicants and tenants, and instead prioritized the needs of providers, landlords, and developers.”
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Opinion: Building the QueensWay is an Investment in Our Communities
Rachel Kellner |
“The QueensWay is a unique opportunity to connect neighborhoods and people, and give families and residents the green space we deserve.”