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Let's Streamline the Weatherization Process

While the establishment of programs like Green Jobs Green New York has certainly helped scale up programs that use weatherization to attack a set of urban ills, there remains work…

Opinion

Feds' Green Could Be Even Greener

Federal weatherization funding can be used to address not only the energy efficiency of buildings but also their financial sustainability, resident health and safety, all while upgrading green skills for…

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Council Eyes Systemic Remedy for Housing Violations

Tenants may for the first time experience a code enforcement system that rewards their organizing efforts with lasting improvements in their buildings and their lives.

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Sister to a 'Worst Landlord'

“It doesn’t feel good to see your own brother featured in the news as the year’s worst landlord. It would feel even worse to be doing nothing about it.”

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Homelessness: It’s About Race, Not Just Poverty

A new report finds black families are seven times more likely than whites to end up in the shelter system. For a minority group that’s faced official and informal housing…

Economy Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Brooklyn's Got Change. Now It Needs Progress.

Detailed data confirm that today’s Brooklyn is different. An inclusive civic infrastructure is what’s needed to turn mere change into real progress.

Opinion

Teen Sex Message Minces Few Words

Some have criticized the words that teens use to discuss sex in a new series of public service announcements. This author argues the only way to reach at-risk youth is…

Economy Opinion

New U.S. Reality: A Permanent Class of Underemployed?

Optimistic statistics on job growth haven’t erased growing worries that a large segment of the American population is going to be cut off from steady employment.

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Livingston Street Battle Frames Debate On Landmarks

Owners at one Brooklyn building say they can maintain its historic look without the hassle of a landmark designation. It’s just another instance, this writer says, of property owners wanting…

Opinion

Time for Brooklyn (and its Fans) to Go Beyond the Brand

While others have Paris and Rome, we’ll always have Brooklyn. But justifiable pride of place should not make us reluctant to look deeper and examine serious challenges to Brooklyn’s well…

Opinion

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