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Opinion: In Plan to Close Rikers, Community Reinvestment is Key to Repairing Harms of Incarceration

‘For decades, criminalized communities have been calling on elected leaders to fund our schools, our parks, our hospitals, our community centers, our access to stable homes and more.’

Economy Opinion

Opinion: Why I Joined the Hunger Strike to Fund NY’s Excluded Workers

‘With my savings gone and just working one day a week, I’m standing in food pantry lines for hours just to get enough to eat. I have to constantly borrow…

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Opinion: State Medicaid Pharmacy ‘Carve-Out’ Would Cost Patients and Providers

‘At Alliance and community health centers across New York, we use these savings to fund otherwise uncompensated care, ensuring that low-income New Yorkers have consistent access to life-saving medications and…

Education Government Opinion

Opinion: Proposed Cuts Threaten NYC Kids’ Access to Early Intervention, Needed Now More Than Ever

‘During the height of the pandemic, there was an 82 percent decline in Early Intervention referrals compared to prior years, meaning that an estimated 3,000-6,000 young children in New York…

Economy Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Updating NY’s Home-Sharing Rules Would Aid State’s Recovery

‘The current system is confusing and overly restrictive. A teacher should be allowed to rent out her home for a few days when she’s away for the summer, and a…

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Simple Policy Reforms Can Help Ease NYC’s Housing Affordability Crisis

‘Our state and federal governments have a moral responsibility to go beyond emergency measures and implement systemic, long-term solutions that will direct more public resources to preventing eviction and homelessness.’

Economy Opinion

Opinion: Reinstate the Environmental Bond Act to Aid New York’s Recovery

‘Building safe and healthy communities with clean air, clean water, good-paying jobs and access to nature must be the focus of our state’s climate plans. The $3 billion Environmental Bond…

Housing and Homelessness Opinion Transportation

Opinion: Let’s Transform NYC’s Waterfront Street-Ends for Equitable Water Access

‘Places to enter and exit the harbor safely in canoes, kayaks, rafts, sailboats, and rowboats, to educate by interacting with the water—or just to touch the water—remain strangely scarce for…

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Local Law 97 is a Public Health Necessity

‘Cleaning up our buildings in the decades to come isn’t just about creating thousands of good jobs, or combating environmental racism, or fighting climate change. It’s also about improving public…

Government Opinion

Opinion: To Reach New York’s Most Vulnerable, Vaccines Must Literally ‘Hit the Streets’

‘To reach those currently experiencing homelessness, it is essential for organizations with longstanding visibility to be empowered and unrestricted to vaccinate in non-traditional settings. Imagine a popup clinic under the…

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