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CityViews: CUNY Law School Needs to Confront its Race Problem

‘Students with marginalized identities are consistently subjected to a neutral discussion of the very ideas, principles and policies that have questioned their existence and sustained violence in their communities for…

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CityViews: NYCHA’s New Leadership Must Rethink Plans to Develop Private Housing

‘NYCHA is pushing the project forward without listening to us and in violation of our rights under federal law.’

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CityViews: NYC’s Commercial-Waste Redesign Should Follow LA’s Example

‘By creating an efficient, exclusive customer base for each of the seven franchised haulers, our city was able to set high standards for environmental impacts, customer service, and workers’ rights.’

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CityViews: Why We Chased Chase’s CEO All the Way to Texas

‘We described just five ways that Chase – the largest bank in the U.S. with $2.5 trillion in assets – has systematically harmed New Yorkers and New York communities.’

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CityViews: Want to Make Schools Safer? End the School-to-Prison Pipeline

‘New legislation shifts schools from punitive, zero-tolerance approaches to discipline, towards restorative approaches that keep students in class and build stronger relationships between students, educators and families.’

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CityViews: New York’s Sex Ed Classes Need to be About More Than Sex

‘If we are truly committed to building a future where all people, regardless of gender, are empowered to live with agency and free from violence, it starts with comprehensive sex…

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CityViews: Unions, Not Developers, Are to Blame for Open-Shop Job Sites in NYC

‘Employing open shop construction in public agencies will not win elected officials accolades or endorsements. But taxpayers will come out the winners knowing that their tax dollars are being…

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CityViews: We Need Innovative Designs—and Open Minds—to Solve the Housing Shortage

‘Good design and cost-cutting seem to be contradictory goals in part because the conversation about the nation’s housing scarcity problem leaves little room for nuance.’

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CityViews: The History of Racial Signals and HUD’s Proposed Rent Hike

‘Social division serves those who need to divert attention from the injustices that play out daily in our political and economic systems.’

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CityViews: There is a Model for Making NYC’s Specialized High Schools More Diverse

‘The enrichment gap is less a gap of rich and poor—both groups are served for preparation for the SHSAT—and more one of the lower-middle class, minority student.’

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