CityViews: NYC Needs More Housing for the Middle Class
Heidi Burkhart |
‘Instead of focusing only the lower-income population, we need to create a system of stepping stones for our working class.’
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CityViews: Community Land Trusts are a Path to Affordable Homeownership
Donovan Richards |
‘CLTs achieve a delicate balance of providing families with the opportunities of homeownership, like building equity and providing stability, while also protecting public resources in perpetuity.’
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CityViews: Long Island City does not Need a Vertical ‘Country-Club’ on Public Land
Ela LoBrutto |
‘Hundreds of residents have already signed onto a petition against the project, and as more residents learn about this public land give-away, this movement will only grow.’
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CityViews: Racializing Inwood’s Rezoning Debate Won’t End the Risk of Gentrification
Adele Oltman |
‘To racialize community concerns about the future is to create a toxic straw horse. It will divert residents’ attention from fighting against the social and economic violence that accompanies gentrification. ‘
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CityViews: We Have to Talk About Gentrification in Long Island City
Ela LoBrutto |
Over the past decade, Long Island City has experienced drastic transformation, sprouting up residential towers that rival Manhattan. But who is driving that process? And do they have the public interest at heart?
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CityViews: Major Community Group Rejects de Blasio’s East Harlem Rezoning
Afua Atta-Mensah |
‘We reject the mayor’s rezoning proposal. Not only does it fail to reflect what the community prioritized in the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan, but it will allow nothing short of a land grab for developers.’
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CityViews: Calling Out Cuomo for the Opioid Crisis
Jeremy Saunders |
“New York State should immediately increase funding for the state Department of Health, for education and training of healthcare providers to increase low-threshold buprenorphine access, and for harm reduction programs stretched extremely thin across the state.”
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CityViews: This is a State Legislature—Not a Middle School Locker Room
Camille De Beus |
“Though the current leaders of the Senate have shown us that our health care and access to contraception and abortion are not their priorities, the fight is not over.”
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CityViews: Missing the Target on Segregation
Harry DeRienzo |
The current community preference system may have its flaws, the writer says, but simply calling for its elimination is irresponsible and callous after centuries of race-based zoning.
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CityViews: An Urgent Need to Address Our City’s Human Dignity Crisis
Seher Khawaja |
“The staggering mismatch in wages and housing costs undeniably demonstrates that we face a human dignity crisis in our urban centers that stems not from the lack of individual self-motivation but from spiraling market misalignments.”
