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CityViews: Is NYPD Oversight Really Making Homeless Shelters Safer?

‘This month marks two years of NYPD oversight of shelter security. With so much invested in the arrangement, a thorough examination is overdue.’

NYCHA Opinion

CityViews: Help Close NYCHA’s Funding Gap With a ‘Tourist Tax’

‘I cannot imagine a tourist would be upset with a new tax, as $1 is easy to muster. Heck, even $2 is easy to swallow when you consider the amazing…

Opinion

CityViews: It’s Time to Provide Legal Help to Families Facing Child-Welfare Probes

‘It’s time we recognize that the interests at stake for parents under ACS investigation are just as compelling, with consequences that can be just as grave, as in a criminal…

Opinion

CityViews: Equitable Admission to High Schools Must Start with Middle School

‘Removing competitive admission is hardly radical; it is simply bringing our middle schools into alignment with nearly all other public middle schools in the nation.’

Opinion

CityViews: Mr. Mayor, it is Not Progressive to Build Cages for Humans

‘Nothing sends a bigger signal that the city is cravenly committed to a system of mass incarceration than the construction of giant new jails in the city’s thriving neighborhoods.’

Opinion

CityViews: New York Must Lead the Nation Toward a Constitutional Amendment on Money in Politics

‘When Congress is unable or unwilling to propose a needed amendment, the people have the option of a convention, where through the states we can propose an amendment to our…

Opinion

CityViews: Mayor’s Progressive Moves Mean Little in a City Overrun by Developers

‘What good is two weeks off from work, when many of us are one paycheck away from devastation because rents are skyrocketing thanks to the mayor’s development agenda?’

Opinion

CityViews: NYC Activists Must Take the Environmental Movement to the Next Level

‘Environmental organizations in America have mostly tried to color within the lines, lines that the establishment has drawn. However, a new movement, though it rejects violence as a tactic, also…

Health Opinion

CityViews: How Helpful Neighbors Promote New Yorkers’ Health

For the first time, the city’s Community Health Survey sought to learn whether and where New Yorkers felt they had helpful neighbors.

Opinion

CityViews: Jazmine Headley Case Exposes Flaws in a Justice System that Rushes to Charge

After a video emerged showing a violent arrest, officials rushed to free Jazmine Headley from jail. But why was she behind bars before anyone had a chance to investigate the…

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