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  • Mapping Tenant Vulnerability: New Data Tool Compares NY’s Legislative Districts

    A new data tool by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University breaks down a trove of housing-related data for each of the state's Senate and Assembly districts. It comes just over a week before the state budget deadline, in a year dominated by debates over how elected officials should address New York’s affordable housing shortage. 

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  • In New York’s Fight to Legalize Basement Apartments, What About Cellars? 

    While Gov. Kathy Hochul included a pathway to basement legalization in her February budget proposal, the word “cellar” is absent from her plan.

    Emma Whitford
  • Social Housing in the Spotlight: NYC Lawmakers Seek ‘Paradigm Shift’ in Tackling Affordability Crisis

    Councilmembers are weighing a slate of bills to expand programs and resources that follow the model of social housing—deeply affordable homes built "for public good" rather than profit, what supporters say could help turn the tide in a city where increasing numbers of tenants are struggling to afford rent.

    Jeanmarie Evelly
  • NYC Housing Calendar, March 9-15

    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
  • Council Speaker Looks to Link Growing Number of NYCHA Entrepreneurs with Vacant Space, Capital

    Adams will announce a proposal during her State of the City speech Wednesday to support and expand NYCHA tenant-owned businesses, the number of which has jumped significantly in recent years as residents turn to home-based ventures such as catering, child care services and carpentry.

    Tatyana Turner
  • New York’s First ‘Good Cause’ Eviction Law Falls, Ramping Up Push for Statewide Bill

    In a six-page decision Thursday, a panel of Third Department judges sided with Albany landlords in finding that state property laws preempt and nullify the city’s 2021 good cause eviction protections.

    Emma Whitford
  • NYC Housing Calendar, March 2-8

    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
  • At Overdue Hearing, Advocates Push NYC to Fulfill Promise of Housing Court Help for Low-Income Tenants

    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.

    Annie Iezzi and Frank Festa
  • In ‘Year Of Housing,’ Hochul’s Budget Leaves Out Anti-Foreclosure Program

    The governor's proposed budget did not include funding for the state-run Homeowner Protection Program, or HOPP, a network of legal service providers and counselors aimed at preventing foreclosures.

    Emma Whitford
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  • Opinion: How New York’s Utilities Are Spreading Disinformation About Electric Heating

    "The answer is clear. We need to stop burning fossil fuels in buildings. It’s not too late for New York’s gas utilities to help us do that."

    Juan-Pablo Velez
  • Opinion: City Policies Are Harming New York’s Homeless Youth

    "If Mayor Adams truly wants to make good on his promises to stem the homelessness crisis in the city and provide substantive mental health to the city’s youth, he must first make it easier, not harder, to access safe and affordable housing."

    Amy Leipziger
  • Opinion: NYC’s Housing Emergency Demands Good Cause Eviction, More Social Housing

    “The city and state must stop relying on failed capitalist strategies when developing more housing, which is why I introduced a bill Thursday that would require the city to study the feasibility of creating a municipal social housing development agency.”

    Sandy Nurse
  • Opinion: NIMBYs Are Wrong—New Housing is Good for NY’s Climate Goals

    "Invoking environmental concerns to block construction is a classic page in the NIMBY playbook, but when suburbanites push back against dense, transit-oriented housing, they are not just hurting the people who urgently need housing in our city—they are hurting the climate for future generations of New Yorkers, too."

    Ben Hitchcock
  • Opinion: Mayor’s Budget Slashes Vital Funding in the Face of Humanitarian Crisis

    "Cutting corners by slashing social service programs will only force New Yorkers to stay homeless longer, reduce their chances of finding permanent housing, and ultimately cost the city more taxpayer dollars to warehouse people in inhumane shelters."

    Manon Vergerio and Jessica Valencia

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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