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CityViews: Squeeze on Regulated Rents Puts Vital Housing Source at Risk

‘We clearly understand their plight, but landlords should not be asked to shoulder the burden of income-challenged tenants. That’s government’s job.’

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CityViews: Tackling Vacancy is Key to Saving NYC’s Small Business

‘The city must adopt a penalty on commercial vacancies to hold unscrupulous landlords accountable … and discourage further displacement of neighborhood small businesses.’

Government In Depth Justice Opinion Video

Maker, Marker, Message: The Art of Protest Signs

Ever wonder what the story was behind that sign you saw as the protest march walked by?

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CityViews: Weep Over the Death of a Child in the Bronx. Then Act.

‘Before this happens again, all the elected officials, school teachers, journalists, priests, ministers and rabbis should look in the mirror, and assume the responsibility for human life we have been…

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CityViews: Why I Voted for a New York City Rent Freeze

This week, the Rent Guidelines Board approved the biggest hike in one-year, rent-stabilized leases of the de Blasio era. Here’s how one Board member explained her ‘no’ vote.

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CityViews: NYC’s Youth March to Sound the Alarm on Climate Change

‘We betray our values by neglecting the global and pervasive threat climate change poses to humanity.’

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CityViews: Why NYC Schools Need Sports Equity

‘Every year segregated high schools ask the PSAL for more sports teams and are denied. Why is that allowed to happen?’

Land Use and Development Opinion

CityViews: ‘Open Shop’ Approach to Development Threatens Safety

‘Low-road companies misclassify workers to avoid paying workers’ compensation, claiming that they are ‘independent’ or ‘self-employed’ instead of employees of the company.’

NYCHA Opinion

CityViews: Courts Have to Force More Change at the NYPD

Landmark decisions about the policing of public housing and stop-and frisk put the NYPD on a path of reform. But, the author argues, the department needs a stronger push from…

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CityViews: Let’s Stop the Zero-Sum Debate Pitting Open Space vs. Affordable Housing

‘The complex goals of communities must be addressed holistically, with a commitment to developing assets that enrich and empower resident experience. ‘

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