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Mapping the Future

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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Latest News

  • Industry City
    Opinion: Stop Echoing Industry City’s Bogus Math on Jobs

    Industry City’s 'Plan for 20,000 Jobs' included jobs that already exist, jobs that it expected tenant companies to generate, and jobs that murky projections said would be spurred off site.

  • Llamado a la acción para aliviar crisis de vivienda en Sunset Park
  • Chinatown Jail Plan Halted By Court
  • Amid COVID and Fiscal Woes, Mayor’s Housing Plan Enters Stretch Run
  • Opinion: The Truth About Homeless Hotels and the Upper West Side
  • Opinion: How the Gowanus Rezoning Could Push NYC Forward on Racial Equity
  • A Call for Action to Ease Sunset Park’s Housing Crunch

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  • soho noho map
    Opinion: SoHo/NoHo Zoning Debate is Over Builders’ Windfall, Not Affordable Housing

    '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.'

    By Andrew Berman
  • flushing protest
    What Opponents of the Flushing Waterfront Plan Say

    A public hearing on the controversial Queens development proposal took place this week.

    By Lan Mu for World Journal
  • Carl Heastie at protest
    Sights & Sounds: Marchers Push Assembly Speaker to Cancel Rent

    But Carl Heastie says the next move in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the federal government's to make.

    By Jarrett Murphy
  • bay street rendering
    Video: The de Blasio Rezonings, Revisited

    In 2015, the de Blasio administration announced its plan to rezone 15 neighborhoods as part of its affordable housing initiative.

    By Sadef Ali Kully and Bianca Clendenin
  • Donovan Richards Anotonio Reynoso Carlos Menchaca
    Tough Questions for Industry City in First Council Hearing on Rezoning Bid

    Councilmembers scrutinized the promise of 15,000 to 20,000 jobs, which depends on hiring decisions that Industry City itself will not control.

    By Sadef Ali Kully
  • Jerome Avenue development
    Six Down, One to Go: Where de Blasio’s Rezonings Stand

    What impact have the mayor's moves had on East New York, Downtown Far Rockaway, East Harlem, Jerome Avenue and Inwood?

    By Sadef Ali Kully
  • Mayor de Blasio
    The Fight Over the UWS Homeless Hotel Might Not Be Over

    Advocates for the homeless said they were contemplating legal action over Mayor de Blasio's decision to evacuate the Lucerne.

    By Jarrett Murphy
  • Opinion: Luxury Rezoning Will Displace Flushing Residents, and Our Politicians Know It

    'Just as the pandemic has laid bare long-standing societal issues, not created them from thin air, the Special Flushing Waterfront Project is tied to a long legacy of corporate real-estate pushing for development that will displace us.'

    By Fiona Zhao and Joseph J. Jung
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Mapping the Future: Opinion

  • Opinion: Hotels Save Homeless Lives

    'I’m enormously grateful that my patients are safer now with private rooms and bathrooms in what would be an otherwise empty hotel.'

    By Kathleen Alvarez
  • Opinion: The Window is Closing to Rezone for a More Equitable SoHo

    '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.'

    By Jessica Katz
  • Opinion: Now More Than Ever, NYC Must Revamp its Housing Program

    The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the city to the brink of a housing crisis. It is time for the city to design housing policies that retain the people who are the heart, the lungs, and the soul of New York City

    By Maria Diaz Gonzalez
  • Opinion: Fairness Requires that NYC Pause the Gowanus Rezoning

    'Gowanus residents have the same right to meaningful civic engagement as other neighborhoods that were rezoned.'

    By Jo Anne Simon and Bradley Vogel
  • Street Homelessness Joint Command Center
    Opinion: Homeless New Yorkers Need Housing, Not Policing

    The mayor 'can and should secure vacant hotel rooms for homeless New Yorkers, including those who are street homeless.'

    By Nikita Price and Carolyn Martinez-Class

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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