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  • NYCHA's LaGuardia Houses
    Opinion: Preservation Trust Finally Gives NYCHA Residents a Seat at the Table

    “For the first time in public housing history, residents will be able to vote on what happens at their individual developments and be involved in selecting the vendors who renovate their homes.” 

  • Bronx Students Ask: What Kind of Neighbors Are The Yankees?
  • Queens Community Board Rejects 5-Block Rezoning Plan Over Affordability Concerns
  • Opinion: NYCHA’s ‘Public Housing Preservation Trust’ Is A Farce of Resident Engagement
  • NYC’s Rent Board Votes for Biggest Increase Since Bloomberg Administration
  • Council Bill Could Force NYC to Report Actual Homeless Shelter Census—Eventually
  • When Developers Promise Community Benefits, Who Holds Them Accountable? 

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 Must Reads

  • Here’s How NYC’s $101 Billion Budget Addresses Homelessness

    The new budget directs $2.4 billion to homeless services in the coming fiscal year, invests billions more in housing over the next decade and funds an increase to rental assistance programs, but is nevertheless facing criticism from advocates who say the spending plan fails to adequately address New York City’s affordability and homelessness crises.  Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography OfficeMayor Eric Adams and Council Speaker Adrienne Adams announcing an early budget deal for FY2023.

    By Jeanmarie Evelly and David Brand
  • After a Year of Missed Opportunity, New York Revises Sputtering Hotel-to-Housing Plan

    When COVID-19 hit, policymakers saw an opportunity: The city had interconnected affordable housing and homelessness crises; the city also had hundreds of empty hotels hemorrhaging cash.

    By David Brand
  • New York’s Legislative Session Ends, With Mixed Results on Housing. Here’s What Passed & What Didn’t

    What exactly did state lawmakers do before starting their nearly seven-month break?

    By Jeanmarie Evelly , David Brand and Liz Donovan
  • City Watch: Reckoning With New York City’s Affordable Housing Crunch

    Non-profit developers and tenants rights advocates have also been sounding the alarm on the need to create more income-restricted apartments across the five boroughs and to keep existing renters stably housed, especially in communities of color.

    By David Brand
  • Opinion: Forget 421a—New York Needs Radical Reform to Solve Housing Crisis

    "We propose a new hybrid financing model that would combine a land value tax (LVT) and community land trusts (CLTs) to address New York’s changing fiscal environment as well as the housing needs of working families."

    By John Choe and Marty Rowland
  • PATH Center
    Opinion: NYC Must Prioritize Housing Our Most Vulnerable Families

    "For far too long, New York’s leaders have focused on stemming the tide of homelessness, and then struggling to meet that low bar.

    By Nicole Branca and Pierina Ana Sanchez
  • Opinion: Corporate Landlords Are Taking Over NYC—The Numbers Don’t Lie

    "Corporations exist to make profit.

    By Sateesh Nori
  • Fate of 25,000 NYCHA Apartments in the Balance as End of Legislative Session Nears

    Proposed legislation would allow NYCHA to transfer 25,000 apartments into a publicly owned trust with the power to issue bonds and borrow money for addressing desperately-needed capital repairs.

    By David Brand
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Mapping the Future: Opinion

  • Opinion: For Youth Aging Out of Foster Care, Housing Support is Crucial

    "Having housing and a place to call home gives one hope and stability, which is essential, especially when you grew up in a system that gave you neither."

    By Jeremiah Perez-Torres
  • Opinion: NYC’s Human Service Workers Deserve Just Pay in This Year’s Budget

    “The very forces contributing to a worsening housing emergency are also impacting the workers tasked with solving that crisis. Those who work to find permanent and safe apartments for the housing-insecure and homeless should not find themselves at risk of eviction and displacement.”

    By Myung Lee
  • Opinion: NYC’s Rebounding Rents Shine Light on Long-Standing Crisis

    "Two years into the pandemic, the city is moving ahead with a return to 'normal,' but the pre-pandemic real estate market’s 'normal' is not something to which we should aspire to."

    By Leslie Vasquez, Kimberly Pereyra Monero and Landry Haarmann
  • Opinion: NYC Communities of Color Face Increased Eviction Filings, Displacement Risk, and Soaring Unaffordable Rents 

    ANHD’s 2022 Housing Risk Chart highlights the compounding pressures, and risks, to affordable housing in dozens of neighborhoods. Indicators of speculation, gentrification, and displacement pressure are distributed throughout the city and show the necessity of tenant and homeowner counseling and support programs that defend affordability in every neighborhood.

    By Barika Williams
  • Opinion: Supportive Housing Can Help Break the Cycle Between Homelessness and Incarceration

    "Deeply affordable housing with supportive services for this population has a proven track record of success and hits all the Adams administration's goals of efficiency, smart government, addressing problems at their root, and getting things done."

    By Patricia Hernandez, Bea De la Torre, JoAnne Page and Cynthia Stuart

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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