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En el pasado, para obtener la residencia permanente para cónyuges indocumentados de ciudadanos estadounidenses, en casi todos los casos la persona que había migrado al país debía regresar a su país de origen y esperar a ser procesada en el extranjero para solicitar la residencia.
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
“This will push an already vulnerable population deeper into hopelessness and despair, rather than offering the ‘tough love’ that might inspire them to pull themselves up by their nonexistent bootstraps.”
In a letter sent to City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams Thursday, the NY SANE Coalition—which represents 65 community and legal services organizations—pressed her and fellow lawmakers to pass bill Intro. 210, which would prohibit the city from putting time limits on homeless shelter stays.
“If Mayor Adams is serious about addressing the affordability crisis, he should direct his city agencies to use planning tools to slow land speculation, tax warehoused property and pied-à-terres, and subsidize housing outside of the profit-making system.”
The MTA says losing the revenue generated from congestion pricing could create a domino effect that impacts a series of climate resiliency projects, like fortifying the subway system from flooding and extreme heat.
“La realidad es que tenemos una crisis de vivienda, pero el sur del Bronx no puede soportar la carga de la vivienda asequible por sí solo”, dijo el Concejal Rafael Salamanca, cuyo distrito produjo el mayor número de unidades asequibles el año pasado y en la última década. “Necesitamos que todos los 51 distritos del concejo de la ciudad hagan su justa parte”.
“This project speaks not just to one isolated facility but the current administration’s overarching goal to make all of New York City a ‘Cop City’ in and of itself.”
Housing advocates in the City Council scored wins—including an additional $2 billion in capital funds for the Department of Housing, Preservation and Development (HPD) and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)—but more is needed, they say.
Según los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC por sus siglas en inglés) entre 2012 y 2022, las tasas estimadas de nuevas infecciones de VIH disminuyeron un 23 por ciento. Sin embargo, las nuevas infecciones están muy concentradas en grupos raciales y étnicos como los afroamericanos, indígenas americanos y, especialmente, los latinos.
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