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Opinion: City Has Gone from Allowing ‘Poor Doors’ to Permitting ‘Poor Buildings’

‘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…

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Opinion: HUD’s Proposed Rule is a Senseless Attack on Immigrants and a Waste of Funding

‘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…

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Opinion: To Truly Address Affordability, Subsidized Housing Must Pay Decent Wages

‘I benefited from living in affordable housing, but affordable housing alone was not enough to change my life, I also needed a good job.’

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Opinion: Prevailing Wage Bill for Building Workers Would Harm Affordable Housing Efforts

‘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.’

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Amid Bright Signs for NYC Families, Challenges Remain for Single-Parent Households

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.

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Opinion: Join the 400-Year Fight for Full Participation of all Peoples

‘The experiences of indigenous and Black people offer a lesson in the construction of institutional racism in the United States.’

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Opinion: Dip in the NYC Poverty Rate Exposes How Much More Policymakers Must Do

‘This new data from the U.S. Census Bureau is a call to action. It’s up to policymakers build on the policies that can fuel more positive outcomes for New York…

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Opinion: Close Rikers to Address the Violence of Jail Discrimination – For Now

‘If it takes smaller, replacement jails to close Rikers, then the mayor and the City Council must pay heed. We will then eventually need to close the new ones as…

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Opinion: 11 Reasons Why De Blasio’s $11 Billion Jails Plan Will Fail

“Roughly eighteen months ago I was released from state prison after serving nearly forty years throughout the state of New York. Contrary to what you may have heard today,…

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Opinion: Queens Councilmember on the Glendale Shelter Debate

‘Why should we roll over and accept the mayor’s plan without putting up a fight?’

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