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Opinion: The Truth About Homeless Hotels and the Upper West Side

‘I’m appalled at how homeless advocates have lost sight of the needs of this vulnerable population and have turned against a community that spoke out against human suffering.’

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Opinion: How the Gowanus Rezoning Could Push NYC Forward on Racial Equity

‘The proposed Gowanus Neighborhood Rezoning asks a whiter, wealthier community to absorb new growth in order to create new, permanent affordability in a high-opportunity neighborhood with strong transit access.’

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Opinion: Lessons Must be Learned from NYS Experiment in Mental Healthcare Funding

Barriers and cliffs have surfaced in a five-year pilot program for managed care of Medicaid mental-health spending.

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Opinion: SoHo/NoHo Zoning Debate is Over Builders’ Windfall, Not Affordable Housing

‘When business groups engineered the recent SoHo/NoHo ‘re-envisioning’ process, many neighbors pushed back, aware of this administration’s miserable track record on developer-driven, community-unfriendly rezonings.’

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Opinion: When Families Protest, Kids Learn

‘Protests are collectives of practitioners, connected by common cause and interest. As such, they are fertile grounds for learning.’

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Opinion: Hotels Save Homeless Lives

‘I’m enormously grateful that my patients are safer now with private rooms and bathrooms in what would be an otherwise empty hotel.’

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Opinion: By Design and Democracy, NYC Must Move Toward Equitable Waterfronts

‘Whether we like it or not, we need to adapt our city to manage the mounting risks that sea-level rise and climate change pose to New York’s waterfront communities.’

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Opinion: Luxury Rezoning Will Displace Flushing Residents, and Our Politicians Know It

‘Just as the pandemic has laid bare long-standing societal issues, not created them from thin air, the Special Flushing Waterfront Project is tied to a long legacy of corporate real-estate…

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Opinion: Why We Organize For Police-Free Schools

‘I have come to see police, surveillance and harsh punitive measures in schools as a way to disproportionately target vulnerable students, primarily Black and Latino, and not to protect and…

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Opinion: Remember Workers Whose Past Prevents Reaching Potential

‘Rather than promote the pathways to success that fair and equitable employment offers for those with criminal justice histories, the current system bars opportunities at every turn.’

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