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CityViews: Bill-Signing Marked the End of Tenants’ 4-Year Struggle

‘Tenants were asked to do double duty. They not only had to fight their landlords who were using construction harassment to drive them from their homes, they also had to…

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CityViews: Community Land Trusts are a Path to Affordable Homeownership

‘CLTs achieve a delicate balance of providing families with the opportunities of homeownership, like building equity and providing stability, while also protecting public resources in perpetuity.’

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CityViews: Queens House of Detention Could Be Refuge for the Homeless

‘At some point a mayoral administration that is in earnest about carrying out its agenda has to resolve that it won’t pander to any given neighborhood’s more sinister instincts.’

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CityViews: Long Island City does not Need a Vertical ‘Country-Club’ on Public Land

‘Hundreds of residents have already signed onto a petition against the project, and as more residents learn about this public land give-away, this movement will only grow.’

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CityViews: Beyond Symbolism, Black Poverty Matters

‘Condemning Neo-Nazis and Klansmen is (or at least should be) an easy first step. Yet, if we as a nation want to fully reject racism, we must commit ourselves to…

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CityViews: Constitutional Convention is New York’s Only Opportunity for Change

‘We are not satisfied with the way New York State is run, and we have no reason to believe any of the state’s most serious problems will change if left…

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CityViews: Lives Could Be Saved if NYC’s Shelters Had Naloxone Training

‘I share my story so that his death will not be in vain.’

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CityViews: Racializing Inwood’s Rezoning Debate Won’t End the Risk of Gentrification

‘To racialize community concerns about the future is to create a toxic straw horse. It will divert residents’ attention from fighting against the social and economic violence that accompanies gentrification.…

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CityViews: Opioids are a Crisis, but Crack is Still a Scourge in Some Communities

‘Unlike the swift response to the opioid epidemic that’s hitting middle-class white Americans, the response to crack has fallen inexcusably short.’

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CityViews: Lack of Sex Ed is a Safety Issue for NYC Public Schools

‘We can’t afford to let another school year go by without implementing comprehensive, medically-accurate sex education.’

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