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Opinion: New York’s Opportunity for Community Ownership

“Passing the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) in 2025 would send a clear message: city policies must shift power back to tenants and communities, not bolster investors trying to…

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

Opinion: Mamdani Has a Golden Opportunity to Address Housing and Climate Together

“New York cannot fix affordability while ignoring rising flood risk, and it cannot build resilient infrastructure that prices people out.”

Government Justice Opinion

Opinion: Addressing ‘Chaotic’ Conditions at NYC’s Youth Detention Centers

“The young people enduring these conditions are overwhelmingly low-income and from communities of color. Their suffering is not inevitable, and the City has immediate options it could act on today…

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion Resources

Opinion: As Rents Rise Again, Too Many Seniors Don’t Know They Can Freeze Theirs

“An estimated 158,214 households are eligible for SCRIE or DRIE—but only 67,132 are currently enrolled. That means nearly 57.6 percent of tenants who could be protected may still face avoidable…

Education Government Health Justice Opinion

Opinion: Rethinking the ‘Boys’ Crisis’

“The real issue is that there are too few systems and spaces intentionally created for them to engage, learn, and grow. The crisis is not boys. The crisis is belonging.”

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Development Without Displacement at Broadway Junction

“Our elected officials have a choice: be complicit in our displacement or successfully fight for these anti-displacement measures.”

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

Opinion: Getting It Right For Hunters Point North

“This half mile of shoreline just south of the Queensboro Bridge has the potential to become the city’s next great waterfront—if we prioritize public interest over private profit.”

2025 Elections Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Conditional Housing Is Still Discriminatory

“I learned the hard way that affordable housing isn’t guaranteed—it’s conditional. The moment your income changes or an agency misses a form, the system recalculates your worth and can pull…

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion Politics

Opinion: Bring Back the Mayoral Transition Tent

“Rather than rely solely on the new mayor or pundits to interpret the results, the transition tents served as an informal poll of what New Yorkers really wanted.”

Government Health Land Use and Development Opinion Politics

Opinion: Fighting for the QueensWay We Were Promised

“Real families were counting on that money, because the QueensWay is desperately needed in our community. It would provide a green space for kids in 28 schools—many of which, like…

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