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Opinion: Top-Down Comprehensive Planning Will Further Empower Those on Top

‘Upon close examination, the speaker’s proposal falls short and leaves the door wide open for the continuation of City Planning’s top-down, developer-driven rezonings by offering them a new shroud of…

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Any Plan to Convert Empty Offices to Housing Must Center Inclusivity, Affordability

‘It’s clear that New York City is going to face changes in how—and where—people live and work. However, any program to convert empty office spaces and hotels to housing must…

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: NYC Must Consider the Racial Impacts of its Land Use Decisions

‘Many communities throughout New York City have seen major land use actions that have exacerbated rather than worked to alleviate displacement pressures, oftentimes in low-income communities of color.’

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Opinion

Opinion: As NYCHA Rolls Out PACT Plan to Fund Repairs, Resident Engagement is Key

Engagement is the foundation for reversing a historical backlog of distrust that is stalling the agency’s current efforts not only to restore its portfolio to a state of good repair…

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: City Council Should Approve Cea Weaver’s Nomination to the City Planning Commission

‘Time and time again, we have seen the concerns of community members come to fruition, as rezonings have led to rampant gentrification and displacement in working class communities of color…

Government Opinion

Opinion: Does a Former Aide Have Any Right to Be Surprised by Giuliani’s Descent?

‘The parallels between Trump and Giuliani’s personalities are stark, the marriage of two men impervious to self-control, shame and disgrace. No amount of revisionism, contortion or myopic soul-searching by Frydman…

Health Justice Opinion

Opinion: It’s Time for NYS to Act on Decarceration in Prisons to Curb COVID-19

Cuomo has failed to implement widely accepted sound public health practices by refusing to release any meaningful number of the state’s COVID-vulnerable imprisoned human beings, and now by failing to…

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: In Defense of Mandatory Inclusionary Housing

‘Lynn Ellsworth’s Dec. 23 opinion essay (“It’s Time to End Mandatory Inclusionary Housing. Here Are Some Alternatives”) mistakenly calls the Mandatory program (MIH) a failure but does so based on…

Economy Opinion

Opinion: How City Nonprofits Can Diversify Their Workforce and Leadership Teams

We made the change by changing our culture—and how we worked—to intentionally identify, mentor, network, promote and hire individuals that improved our outcomes and enhanced the organization’s diversity.

Government Opinion

Opinion: Don’t Delay Ranked Choice Voting – Educate Voters Instead

With six months until the June primary, there’s plenty of time for all voters to learn to rank their vote – applying something they do every day without thinking about…

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