CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: The 2020 Election Season is Underway, and Jamaal Bowman’s Bid Deserves Attention
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‘The outcome will further test how much traditional politics still holds sway.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Traditional Dairy Products Are on the Decline. That’s Good News.
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‘The rapid growth of the plant-based dairy alternative market can be credited to these health and environmental motives, among others.’
ARTS and CULTURE
Books: When Gentrification Came to Greenpoint
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In an excerpt from a new book, Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents, an up-close look at one tenant-landlord dispute shows what’s really happening around the city.
City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York
Opinion: Is it Time for NYers to Park Their SUVs … Permanently?
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‘Perhaps it’s time to impose a tiered tolling system that takes in account an automobile’s fuel performance. Or maybe it’s just time to just ban SUVs from congested cities like New York altogether.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Congressional Action Against Hunger Could Save Kids—and Money
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‘Hunger is linked to a host of downstream negative physical, emotional, and social effects. Knowing this, how does America allow one in seven of our children to struggle with hunger?’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: City Has Gone from Allowing ‘Poor Doors’ to Permitting ‘Poor Buildings’
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‘Despite Mayor de Blasio banning the notion of ‘poor doors’ in New York City, developers continue to find new and creative ways of discriminating against low-income residents when it comes to affordable housing.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: HUD’s Proposed Rule is a Senseless Attack on Immigrants and a Waste of Funding
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‘If Secretary Ben Carson gets his way, families with one or more undocumented members would be told they must leave or separate, despite the fact that such a policy makes neither fiscal nor rational sense.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: To Truly Address Affordability, Subsidized Housing Must Pay Decent Wages
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‘I benefited from living in affordable housing, but affordable housing alone was not enough to change my life, I also needed a good job.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Prevailing Wage Bill for Building Workers Would Harm Affordable Housing Efforts
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‘The City Council’s work on Intro 1321, while well intentioned, may very well cripple efforts to create deeply affordable housing in New York City.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Amid Bright Signs for NYC Families, Challenges Remain for Single-Parent Households
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OPINION: As the latest Census Data point to signs of progress for NYC’s families, policymakers must focus on single parents and their children, who continue to face economic hardship.