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    While Albany leaders failed to pass a comprehensive package of housing legislation this week, some advocates and high-ranking lawmakers have been working on a pair of bills they say could strengthen protections for tenants across New York City’s stock of roughly 1 million rent stabilized apartments. 

  • Amid Air Quality Crisis, Officials Urge People Indoors. What About Street Homeless New Yorkers?
  • NYC Makes it Mandatory for Residential Buildings to Recycle Food Waste
  • The Job That “Almost Was”: Advocates on the Loss of NYC’s Chief Housing Officer
  • 1 in 5 Tenants at NYCHA’s Red Hook Houses Paid Miscalculated Rent: Audit
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  • Vacant NYCHA Units Continue to Increase, With Transfers Complicated by PACT

    NYCHA’s target time is 30 days for apartment turnover.

    Tatyana Turner
  • A NY Law Puts A Steep Price On ‘Serious’ Building Disrepair. These Tenants Are Fighting To Use It.

    Brooklyn tenants are trying to dismantle barriers around a seldom-used 1960s-era law that can prohibit landlords from collecting rent when they fail to fix dangerous building conditions for months on end.

    Emma Whitford
  • City’s Houses Of Worship Gear Up to Shelter Asylum Seekers

    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.

    Daniel Parra
  • Housing Events in NYC This Week: Rally for Right to Counsel

    City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

    Jeanmarie Evelly
  • Opinion: 421-a Deadline Threatens the Promise of Gowanus Rezoning

    "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."

    Michelle de la Uz and Rachel Fee
  • Housing Events in NYC This Week: ‘Rent is Too Damn High’ Rally

    City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

    Jeanmarie Evelly
  • NYCHA Expected to Get ‘Significant Majority’ of State Budget Rent Relief Funds

    While the total won’t be clear until remaining applications for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) are processed, a majority of the $391 in aid will likely go to the housing authority and other public housing tenants, with $35 million specifically earmarked for NYCHA.

    Tatyana Turner
  • Groups Tell Speaker Adams: Time is Now for ‘Social Housing’ Bills

    Albany’s inaction has made it more urgent for the council speaker to help pass a package of bills aimed at boosting the supply of homes accessible to, and controlled by, low-income New Yorkers, more than 100 groups said in a letter Tuesday.

    Emma Whitford
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Mapping the Future: Opinion

  • Opinion: How Media Reports Got it Wrong on Rent Guidelines Board ‘Increases’

    "The result of the latest reporting only serves to reinforce an unequal economic standing between landlords and tenants. Through its limited scope, this reporting causes unnecessary panic, potential demoralization, and ultimately a false sense of relief if the board goes with anything lower than the reported high end number."

    Avi Garelick and Andrew Schustek
  • Opinion: With Community Land Trusts Back in the Spotlight, Lessons from 1970s NYC

    “Now, longtime neighborhood residents across the city, people who put up with dangerous housing conditions for decades because they had no choice, but who fought to improve their neighborhoods, finally have the best chance in decades to get public support.” CityViews are readers’ opinions, not those of City Limits. Add your voice today! The Lower […]

    Harriet Cohen
  • Opinion: Public Banking is a Win for New York’s Tenants

    “As tenants who have suffered under aggressive landlords funded by predatory lenders, we urge our lawmakers to support the creation of public banks, mission-driven to provide affordable financing to responsible buyers of multifamily dwellings.” CityViews are readers’ opinions, not those of City Limits. Add your voice today! Signature Bank’s sudden collapse has revealed what many […]

    Roy Zornow and Elizabeth Haak
  • Opinion: It’s Time to Tax the Rich and Make Housing Justice a Reality in New York 

    “New York can address our perennial housing crisis, but only if we tax the rich and prioritize the public interest over private gain.”

    Rodrigo Camarena
  • Opinion: Forced Hospitalization is the Wrong Approach to Mental Health

    "This policy, while likely formed with good intent, is short-sighted and places more strain on a system that is close to breaking. It also shifts focus and continues to villainize individuals who need help, rather than providing the resources that they desperately need. This is a band-aid, meant to make the problem less visible, ignoring the real issues."

    Joshua Budhu

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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