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Mapping the Future investigates and explains the history, economics, politics and policies that shape the way land is used in the city of New York and beyond. It is supported by the Ford Foundation and the Neighborhoods First Fund.

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  • Next Mayor Could Confront Nine-Digit Deficits at NYCHA

    The housing authority managed to balance its books last year, and an infusion of federal support will help it do so in 2021. But budget gaps of $300 million or more lurk in 2022 and beyond.

  • Opinion: Supportive Housing is the Missing Piece from the Mayoral Housing Conversation
  • Opinion: New York’s Pandemic Aid Must Go Toward Truly Helping Tenants
  • Housing, Homelessness & the 2021 Race: The Questions Candidates Must Answer
  • Opinion: Simple Policy Reforms Can Help Ease NYC’s Housing Affordability Crisis
  • New Programs Needed to Address Declining Black Homeownership in NYC: Report
  • Mayor’s New Order Could Put Gowanus Rezoning Lawsuit in Jeopardy

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 Must Reads

  • Opinion: To Reach New York’s Most Vulnerable, Vaccines Must Literally ‘Hit the Streets’

    'To reach those currently experiencing homelessness, it is essential for organizations with longstanding visibility to be empowered and unrestricted to vaccinate in non-traditional settings.

    By Mark Jennings
  • State Temporarily Waives ‘Lawsuit Requirement’ for Family Rent Supplement Program

    The change will suspend a requirement for the Family Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Supplement (FHEPS) where applicants had to show proof that their landlord had filed an eviction against them in housing court for rent payments.

    By Sadef Ali Kully
  • City’s Preliminary Budget Offers More Housing Funds, But Maintains Cuts to Some Programs

    HPD would see its capital funding restored with a slight increase in the mayor’s preliminary budget for fiscal year 2022.

    By Sadef Ali Kully
  • Opinion: The $4 Billion Housing Blueprint for New York City’s Next Mayor

    ‘We call on the next mayor to invest… $2.5 billion for affordable housing rental and homeownership opportunities and $1.5 billion for the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), and to move the city’s reporting structure away from raw production totals and into more meaningful areas, including racial equity and levels of affordability.’ Adi TalwarA New York City Housing Authority building in the Ingersoll Housing complex near Downtown Brooklyn.

    By Rachel Fee
  • In Confronting Family Homelessness, Candidates Asked to Think Beyond Housing

    Advocates believe the city won't see meaningful reductions in the number of kids who grow up partly in homeless shelters until policies target the social mobility of women of color.

    By Jarrett Murphy
  • The Waiting Game for Pandemic Rent Relief in New York

    State lawmakers are taking a third pass at amending the rent relief program to reach more people, but some housing advocates – who are calling for the cancellation of rent– have slammed the legislation as putting the burden to getting assistance on tenants’ shoulders.

    By Sadef Ali Kully
  • What to Ask Mayoral Candidates Who Say They Can Solve NYC’s Housing Crisis

     Thirteen questions for the candidates, to separate meaty plans from mere paperwork.

    By Jarrett Murphy
  • City Council Speaker Defends His Comprehensive Planning Bill in First Public Hearing

    Corey Johnson says his ‘Planning Together’ proposal will help create a more just and inclusive city planning process.

    By Sadef Ali Kully
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Mapping the Future: Opinion

  • Opinion: Five Myths About the Gowanus Rezoning

    ‘The city, public officials, and developers have all built an increasingly fevered false sense of urgency that shows just how desperate they are to ram through the rezoning while the public is sidelined by the pandemic, economic crisis, and weak sauce virtual hearings.’

    By Linda La Violette, Penn Rodeen and Benjamin Shepard
  • Opinion: Homeless People are Worthy of Housing — It’s Time to Stop the Stigma

    ‘Stigmatizing and criminalizing homeless people is just another tool the real estate industry uses to maintain status quo and maximize their bottom lines. The stigmatization must stop — we need to end this prejudice and get honest about who is homeless and why.’

    By Rebeka Bryan
  • Opinion: Top-Down Comprehensive Planning Will Further Empower Those on Top

    ‘Upon close examination, the speaker’s proposal falls short and leaves the door wide open for the continuation of City Planning’s top-down, developer-driven rezonings by offering them a new shroud of legitimacy: a comprehensive plan engineered by city officials that fast-tracks rezonings.’

    By Tom Angotti
  • Opinion: City Council Should Approve Cea Weaver’s Nomination to the City Planning Commission

    'Time and time again, we have seen the concerns of community members come to fruition, as rezonings have led to rampant gentrification and displacement in working class communities of color across the city.’

    By Katelin Penner
  • Opinion: Moving Toward Just Land Use and Housing Policies in NYC

    ‘Across the city, the mayor and developers are pushing rezonings and development projects that attempt to rip out the fertile roots of people and place, to wholly redefine city neighborhoods for a wealthier and whiter population.’

    By Cheryl Pahaham and Paul Epstein

Homelessness

  • NYC Has a Family Homelessness Crisis. Who are the Families?
  • Mayor Offers More Homeless Outreach, But Advocates Want More Beds
  • Chris Quinn to Anti-Shelter Protesters: ‘Why Do You Hate Homeless Children?’
  • Data Drop: Which NYC Neighborhoods Host the Most Homeless-Shelter Beds?

Public Housing

  • Should the City’s Housing Plan Make NYCHA its Centerpiece?
  • Rent Calculation Problems Dog Many NYCHA Tenants
  • Hundreds of NYCHA Evictions Raise Questions About Process
  • What is RAD, and What Does it Mean for the Future of NYCHA?

Homeownership

  • Call for City to Take Aggressive Steps on Affordable Homeownership
  • NYC Homeowners Face Huge Unknowns as Flood Insurance Changes Loom
  • Budget Could Boost City’s Nascent Community Land Trust Movement
  • On City Streets and in Wild Landscapes, the Fight for America’s Soul in 2020 is About Land

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