The rezoning could lead to a total increase of an estimated 3,200 housing units, including 600 to 900 affordable units, plus an additional 3,181 residents over a 10-year period, according to a key document released this week.
October 30, 2020 https://citylimits.org/2020/10/30/soho-noho-rezoning-could-bring-less-than-1000-affordable-units/‘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.’
September 17, 2020 https://citylimits.org/2020/09/17/opinion-soho-noho-zoning-debate-is-over-builders-windfall-not-affordable-housing/‘We need fewer barriers to access and more affordable housing. With just over a year left in this administration, rezoning SoHo is an important legacy that shouldn’t be pushed off any longer.’
September 1, 2020 https://citylimits.org/2020/09/01/opinion-the-window-is-closing-to-rezone-for-a-more-equitable-soho/Elected officials are charging forward on their plan to make the South Bronx safe for sculptors and shoppers, but what about the people who live and work there now?
May 15, 2003 https://citylimits.org/2003/05/15/sobro-goes-soho/City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
March 25, 2024 https://citylimits.org/2024/03/25/nyc-housing-calendar-march-25-april-1/“It is always worth exploring developments on other sites. However, they should be additional sites for housing, not alternatives, and support for additional developments should not be contingent on the outcomes of other projects.”
March 8, 2024 https://citylimits.org/2024/03/08/opinion-beware-the-trojan-horse-of-alternative-housing-proposals/“421-a or any alternative’s inclusion in our toolbox to tackle the housing crisis is by no means a silver bullet, but its absence has already and will continue to hamstring our ability to respond. We cannot accept this if we want to solve our housing crisis.”
June 25, 2023 https://citylimits.org/2023/06/25/opinion-new-york-lawmakers-need-to-consider-421-a-replacement/The city’s landmark Right to Counsel law was the country’s first to guarantee legal representation in housing court to low-income tenants most at risk for eviction. But advocates and providers say it’s been undermined in recent months as the courts schedule eviction cases faster than there are available housing attorneys to take them. “When the law was first passed, it worked,” Ruth Riddick, a Flatbush tenant, testified Friday at a city hearing on the initiative.
March 1, 2023 https://citylimits.org/2023/03/01/at-overdue-hearing-advocates-push-nyc-to-fulfill-promise-of-housing-court-help-for-low-income-tenants/Housing Works and the Doe Fund are breaking into the cannabis industry and pioneering new terrain for nonprofit organizations post-pot prohibition. But the two organizations have different business models as well as divergent approaches to substance use when it comes to their own clients.
December 6, 2022 https://citylimits.org/2022/12/06/two-homeless-service-providers-break-into-legal-weed-industry-with-different-approaches/“More housing at any income level lowers nearby rents. We progressives should therefore be fighting for new housing with every bone in our bodies.”
November 21, 2022 https://citylimits.org/2022/11/21/opinion-more-housing-is-the-progressive-choice/
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