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CityViews: Kids With Special Needs Would Lose if City Wins Charter-School Closure

A mom who is suing the DOE writes about the role a threatened charter school has played in the lives of her two sons with learning disabilities.

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CityViews: Crackdown Against AirBnB Hurts Families of Color

‘The state and city of New York have instituted policies that threaten to stifle innovation and undermine efforts to grow our economy from the bottom up and from the middle…

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City-Views: Blocking Immigrants from Essential Services Hurts All New Yorkers

The Trump Administration is taking steps to deprive immigrants of essential services, including health care, and that would be bad for all New Yorkers, regardless of status.

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CityViews: City Must Address the Reality of Tenant Displacement

‘The Jerome Avenue rezoning would give landlords increased financial incentive to utilize the displacement tactics already at their disposal.’

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CityViews: Funding More Parks Workers is Key to Broader Fight for Workplace Dignity

The story of parks workers is similar to the story of workers in most sectors of our economy. So the debate over whether to make a batch of parks…

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CityViews: Police, Politics and the Puerto Rican Day Parade

Amid a struggle for Puerto Rican independence that has spanned three centuries, a police commissioner’s decision not to march in the annual parade is small potatoes.

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CityViews: City is Trying to Build a Seamless System for Autistic Kids

‘A single coordinating agency should develop and apply consistent, developmentally appropriate standards across the full publicly-funded early childhood continuum, beginning at birth and continuing into elementary school.’

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CityViews: Understanding Economic Abuse is Key to Escaping Domestic Violence

There has been a growing awareness in recent years of the devastating physical and psychological effects of domestic violence, but many people are not aware of the financial impact of…

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CityViews: Preventing Senior Homelessness is Worth the Money

In the past few years, hundreds of seniors have been referred to the SHPP program by Bronx Housing Court Judges – all with good results. But, unless new money is…

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CityViews: Brownfield Redevelopment Must Include More Affordable Housing

The current brownfield cleanup program does not allocate enough units for low-income housing.

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