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Opinion: The Window is Closing to Rezone for a More Equitable SoHo
'We need fewer barriers to access and more affordable housing.
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Election Watch 2018
Video: Brooklyn’s Role in the ’18 Vote & What the Results Mean for the Boro
Kings County was center stage on Election Night 2018, helping to flip the State Senate and the U.S. House blue. What drove the electoral shift behind those results, and what will their impact be on the borough? We asked two veteran journalists.
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Workers Await Gov’s Action to Make Wage-Theft Deadbeats Pay
The legislature passed a law allowing workers to place a lien on owners' personal property to prevent them from absconding with cash and starting fresh without making court-mandated payments to workers. It awaits Gov. Cuomo's signature.
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- Opinion: To Truly Address Affordability, Subsidized Housing Must Pay Decent Wages
- Opinion: Prevailing Wage Bill for Building Workers Would Harm Affordable Housing Efforts
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NY Air Quality is Improving, But City’s Emissions Goals Are Still Far Off
By 2050, the city’s annual greenhouse gas emissions should be no higher than 12 million metric tons of carbon dioxide—in 2020, buildings alone accounted for 34 million metric tons. “It kind of paints a very stark picture of how much work we have to do and how it can't just be business as usual."
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- Opinion: Hyper-Policing is the Wrong Response to Brooklyn Subway Attack
- Targeted Attacks on Unsheltered New Yorkers Highlight Dangers of Homelessness
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NYC Aims to Restaff Wiped-Out Housing Discrimination Unit as Voucher Values Rise
The budget plan proposes moving six staffers from the Human Resources Administration to the Source of Income (SOI) discrimination unit at the Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), which had zero attorneys working on those cases after its final employee departed last month following years of employee exits and unfilled vacancies, City Limits previously reported.
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- City’s Homeless Services Head Hails Moves Out of Subway, But Won’t Say How Many Stay in Shelter
- 17 Units Here. 8,555 There. See Where NYC Builds Its Affordable Housing
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Opinion: Price Gouging is Crushing Low-Income New Yorkers. Here’s What Gov. Hochul Should Do
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Opinion: I Didn’t Know What Qualified Immunity Was—Until I Had To
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Opinion: NYC’s Buildings and Streets Fail to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change
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Opinion: NYC Communities of Color Face Increased Eviction Filings, Displacement Risk, and Soaring Unaffordable Rents
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¿Cómo es vivir siendo monitoreado por el programa alternativo a la detención (ATD)?
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Discriminación entre latinos y ¿cuántas personas se identifican como afrolatinas en EE.UU.?
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Dificultades para determinar los resultados de dos décadas de operaciones fronterizas financiadas por contribuyentes en Texas
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The country’s largest school system — and one of the most segregated — just released its ‘school diversity’ plan. Here are the highlights.
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Concejales manifiestan su preocupación por la seguridad de los detenidos después de su visita a centro de detención de ICE en NY
Uno de los detenidos dijo a City Limits que ha estado detenido por ICE durante más de seis meses, pero solo le han dado dos tapabocas de tela durante ese tiempo, a pesar de que el personal de la cárcel dijo a los concejales que tienen tapabocas en abundancia. Councilmember Shekar KrishnanThe Orange County Jail Este artículo apareció originalmente en inglés.