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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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  • Gowanus Canal
    Gowanus Group Files Lawsuit Over City’s Use of Virtual Hearings During Rezoning Review

    Voice of Gowanus announced it would file a lawsuit Friday challenging the city’s plan to hold virtual hearings during the public review of its proposal to rezone the neighborhood, and demanding the de Blasio administration delay the discussions until they can be held in-person.

  • Opinion: Top-Down Comprehensive Planning Will Further Empower Those on Top
  • Cuomo’s 2021 Agenda Should Focus on Looming Evictions Crisis, Housing Advocates Say
  • Opinion: Any Plan to Convert Empty Offices to Housing Must Center Inclusivity, Affordability
  • City Pilot to Combat Tenant Harassment Should Be Improved and Made Permanent, Advocates Say
  • Opinion: NYC Must Consider the Racial Impacts of its Land Use Decisions
  • Opinion: City Council Should Approve Cea Weaver’s Nomination to the City Planning Commission

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    Opinion: In Defense of Mandatory Inclusionary Housing

    Adi Talwar50 Pennsylvania Avenue, one of several affordable housing development sites in East New York under the city's MIH program.

    By Sandy Hornick
  • NY Lawmakers to Pass Bill to Halt Pandemic-Related Evictions Through May

    The COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act would create a hardship declaration form that tenants can fill out and submit to their landlords, or to housing court, if they’ve experienced economic difficulties due to the pandemic.

    By Sadef Ali Kully
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    Opinion: It’s Time to End Mandatory Inclusionary Housing. Here Are Some Alternatives

    'The fact is that MIH is just bad policy.

    By Lynn Ellsworth
  • Comprehensive Planning Bill Raises Key Questions for Mayoral Hopefuls

    Housing advocacy groups and some elected officials have been pushing for years for the city to adopt a comprehensive plan, and an earlier effort to do so was abandoned during the City Charter Revision process in 2019.

    By Sadef Ali Kully and Jarrett Murphy
  • The Check In: NYC Public Meetings Go Virtual

    City Limits' housing reporter Sadef Kully discusses the city's shift to online public hearings and meetings, which make it easier for some New Yorkers to attend but has drawn other complaints.

    By Jeanmarie Evelly
  • 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.’ Adi TalwarResidents hold up signs at a 2018 hearing about the Inwood rezoning.

    By Cheryl Pahaham and Paul Epstein
  • Opinion: Developing 920 Park Place Jeopardizes the Community and the Landmarks’ Process

    ‘A landmark is not merely an old building, but a navigational point for a community.

    By Deborah Young, Ingrid Saraguad and Sarah Leonard
  • For City’s Public Meetings, Shift to Virtual Format Has Meant Attendance Boost—& Complications

    The shift to remote-only civic meetings during the pandemic is impacting how communities get to weigh in on important city proposals, like rezonings.

    By Sadef Ali Kully
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Mapping the Future: Opinion

  • Opinion: It’s Time to Do Away With NYC’s Tax Lien Sale—The Giuliani Plan That Won’t Die

    Most cities do not sell their tax liens to a private trust. Many have programs which help homeowners pay off their debt and repair their neglected rental properties. Other cities also allow nonprofits to buy back the lien and then work out a payment plan with the property owner.

    By John Krinsky and Memo Salazar
  • Opinion: NYC Faces a Hunger and Homelessness Crisis. Here’s How to Help.

    ‘I know hunger is not new. But over the last six months in the New York City metro area it has become worse and there are easy ways that those of us with more than we need can move from awareness to action.’

    By Josiah Haken
  • Opinion: It’s Time to Fix the City’s Rental Assistance Vouchers

    'At current payment levels, the CityFHEPS voucher falls close to $500 below fair market rent, leaving thousands of voucher holders competing with each other for the one or two units available on the market at that price range.'

    By Shawntel Williams
  • Opinion: City’s Move to Vacate UWS Hotel Shelter is Adding ‘Trauma on Top of Trauma,’ Resident Says

    'After hearing that I would be kicked out of the Lucerne, I felt traumatized – dehumanized at the thought of being moved from shelter to shelter like a pawn on a chessboard during a global pandemic.'

    By Shams DaBaron
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    Opinion: Senate Housing Chair Must Help ‘Cancel Rent’

    'Tenants are accruing debt that they will not be able to repay. The latest CDC guidance is not comprehensive or long enough and we need state leaders to act.'

    By Sasha Wijeyeratne, Ava Farkas, Steve Herrick, Honda Wang and XingJian Li

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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