Government
City’s Houses Of Worship Gear Up to Shelter Asylum Seekers
Daniel Parra |
Sources familiar with the plan say the city is looking to open 950 shelter beds at sites run by dozens of religious organizations in the coming months.
Education
Después de años de esfuerzo, City College abrirá un centro para estudiantes inmigrantes
Daniel Parra |
En todo el sistema de la City University of New York (CUNY por sus siglas en inglés), donde más de un tercio de los estudiantes de pregrado nació fuera de los Estados Unidos continentales, solo hay dos Immigrant Student Success Center (Centros para el éxito de estudiantes inmigrantes) a pesar de tener una población de más de 5,000 estudiantes indocumentados.
Brooklyn
APPLY NOW: Paid Journalism Training Workshops for NYC High School Students
Jeanmarie Evelly |
The City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth (CLARIFY), with the CUNY Journalism Council and Press Pass NYC, is now taking applications from New York City high school students for two journalism training camps this summer in Brooklyn and Queens.
Housing and Homelessness
Housing Events in NYC This Week: Rally for Right to Counsel
Jeanmarie Evelly |
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
Economy
Among NYCHA Residents, Black Men Continue to Face Higher Unemployment: Report
Tatyana Turner |
While New Yorkers are on the rebound from job loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment rates in NYCHA continue to plague residents, particularly among Black and Latino men, a new report finds.
Brooklyn
Opinion: 421-a Deadline Threatens the Promise of Gowanus Rezoning
Michelle de la Uz and Rachel Fee |
“Gowanus is a critical example, but there are other mixed-income projects with much needed affordable housing comprising thousands more apartments across the city—many in high opportunity communities, and all of which were duly approved through the city’s land-use process—that need the deadline extended in order to happen.”
Economy
Costly Utility Rates Could Jeopardize MTA’s Move to All-Electric Buses
Mariana Simões |
This summer, utility companies must submit plans detailing how they’ll implement a series of solutions to make electricity rates more affordable for electric vehicles. But their plan has fallen short of giving the MTA the preferential rate it says it needs to able to foot the bill, as it seeks to transition its 5,800-bus fleet off fossil fuels.
Government
PÓDCAST: ¿Cómo se ve la frontera más de una semana después del fin del Título 42?
Daniel Parra |
Liego de que se levantara el Título 42, según el subsecretario de Política Fronteriza e Inmigración del DHS, Blas Núñez-Neto, las autoridades fronterizas han registrado una disminución del número de cruces de migrantes de todas las nacionalidades de más del 56 por ciento.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Geofence Warrants Violate NY’s Constitution. Let’s Ban Them.
Michaelle Solages |
“These searches enable government agencies to track the whereabouts of thousands of individuals without any specific suspicion of their involvement in criminal activities.”
Education
After Years-Long Push, City College to Open Center for Immigrant Students
Daniel Parra |
Despite having an undocumented student population of more than 5,000, and more than a third of undergraduate students who are born outside the mainland U.S., the entire CUNY system has only two such “immigrant student success centers.”
