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Opinion: Do We Really Support Children? NY’s Child Support System Says Otherwise

“While states like New York emphasize supporting vulnerable women and children as a priority, there has been too little focus on the need to improve the child support system to…

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: City’s Housing Shortage Demands an End to Apartment Warehousing

“Many homeless New Yorkers are working and could afford rent stabilized rents—yet landlords have been warehousing rent stabilized apartments.”

Economy Government Opinion Transportation

Opinion: Transit Riders Won Congestion Pricing. We Deserve To See It Happen

“With years of work, riders pried congestion pricing from a recalcitrant Albany. We intend to see the program fully and fairly rolled out next year. When congestion pricing is implemented,…

Economy Government Justice Opinion Politics

Opinion: Delivering New York’s Cannabis Promise as Licensing Begins

“For these licenses to serve their purpose, individuals who were targeted for arrest and prosecution must be first in line and have access to non-predatory resources and legal support to…

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: West Park Presbyterian and Rethinking Our Relationship with Landmarking

“It should be abundantly clear that the stamp of a landmark designation alone does not keep a building standing. If financial viability and structural integrity are in question, landmarking should…

Education Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Helping Students Experiencing Homelessness Head Back to School Without Stigma

“Of all the challenges a child experiencing homelessness may be faced with, a basic lack of supplies to complete schoolwork should not be one of them, especially since education can be a…

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Use NYC’s Vacant Lots and Buildings to Help Solve the Housing Crisis

“As of 2016, the city had over 1,131 (more or less) parcels of property at its disposal. Instead of using executive orders on projects that benefit a small group of people,…

Government Opinion Politics

Opinion: The Fight for Reproductive Rights Must Be An Inclusive One

“New York has been a longtime safe haven for abortions, with 10 percent of abortions performed in the state in 2019 being out-of-state residents, and is gearing up for a…

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion Politics Transportation

Opinion: We Need a Real Penn Station Plan, Not a Neighborhood Replacement Scheme

“Our leaders seem blithely unaware that we have within our grasp a once-in-a-century opportunity to create a transit hub worthy of New York, which many of us still think of…

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: NY’s Mitchell-Lama Housing Should Be Preserved, Not Dismantled

“Dissolving our building’s Mitchell-Lama status would be a small but significant injustice in an already deeply unequal city. Shareholders who have long benefitted from the program would be autonomously divesting…

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