Opinion Archives - Page 49 of 188

Opinion: The Rent Guidelines Board Sucks. It Could be Great—Here’s How

If the RGB is meant to protect tenants, its record is mixed at best. But the alternative, a city of free market rentals, would be much worse. How can this…

Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Housing Voucher Reforms Offer Hope in City’s Homelessness Crisis

“As a city, do we want to make people suffer through three months of homelessness before we give them a chance to regain stability through housing?”

Climate and Environment Government Opinion Politics

Opinion: Environmental Stewardship is a Collective Commitment. Mandatory Composting Will Help Us All Do Our Part

“It’s not just enough to realize it is our hands that have created the ecological disaster our world faces, but it is also our responsibility to address it.”

Economy Education Government Opinion

Opinion: CUNY Needs Funding, Not Cuts

“The mayor needs to look somewhere else to cut funding. Successful higher education programs should not be on the chopping block.”

Climate and Environment Government Opinion

Opinion: In Call for Parks Funding, Natural Areas Can’t Be Neglected

“New York City’s forested natural areas receive just 0.0042 percent of the city’s funds, basically a rounding error in New York City’s over $100 billion budget.”

Education Government Opinion

Opinion: It’s Time to Pay Teachers What They Deserve

“Teachers’ workloads are increasing without their salaries as they take on even more responsibilities to ensure the safety and well-being of their students.”

Education Government Opinion

Opinion: City Teachers Could Lose Key Tool for Social and Emotional Learning

“We know that social and emotional skills in schools support academic success. It is crucial that we continue to develop these competencies that contribute to our young people graduating from…

Government Health Opinion

Opinion: Overdose Prevention Centers Help Make Communities Safer

“We are in the midst of a worsening overdose crisis. Children don’t deserve the remnants of drug use in the playground, or to lose loved ones to overdose. People who…

Education Government Justice Opinion

Opinion: New York’s Students Need Support, Not Suspensions

“No student deserves to be effectively expelled for bringing a bottle opener to school. There is no disciplinary reason to do so. In the very rare case that students do…

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion Politics

Opinion: 421-a Deadline Threatens the Promise of Gowanus Rezoning

“Gowanus is a critical example, but there are other mixed-income projects with much needed affordable housing comprising thousands more apartments across the city—many in high opportunity communities, and all of…

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