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  • NYS Budget on Housing: Rent Relief Victory, Disappointment on NYCHA and Homelessness

    While housing advocates say the budget deal included a major victory for tenants––creating a multi-billion dollar program for rent relief––it included less funds for NYCHA and homelessness prevention than stakeholders had hoped for.

  • Next Mayor Could Confront Nine-Digit Deficits at NYCHA
  • Opinion: Supportive Housing is the Missing Piece from the Mayoral Housing Conversation
  • Opinion: New York’s Pandemic Aid Must Go Toward Truly Helping Tenants
  • Housing, Homelessness & the 2021 Race: The Questions Candidates Must Answer
  • Opinion: Simple Policy Reforms Can Help Ease NYC’s Housing Affordability Crisis
  • New Programs Needed to Address Declining Black Homeownership in NYC: Report

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 Must Reads

  • City Council Speaker Defends His Comprehensive Planning Bill in First Public Hearing

    Corey Johnson says his ‘Planning Together’ proposal will help create a more just and inclusive city planning process.

    By Sadef Ali Kully
  • Lawsuits Seeking to Stop Two Bridges Development Overturned in Appellate Court

    A panel of appellate judges on Tuesday reversed an earlier injunction halting the contentious Two Bridges project — a major setback for Lower East Side community groups, which have been waging a legal battle against the city and developers.

    By Sadef Ali Kully
  • Opinion: How NYC’s Leaders Can Empower Black Re-Entry Workers Like Me

    'Body Shops specialize in selling the labor of re-entry workers like me because they know how to take advantage of our unique vulnerabilities as Black workers who spent time behind bars.'

    By Mike “Millz” Negron
  • Opinion: Five Myths About the Gowanus Rezoning

    'The city, public officials, and developers have all built an increasingly fevered false sense of urgency that shows just how desperate they are to ram through the rezoning while the public is sidelined by the pandemic, economic crisis, and weak sauce virtual hearings.’ Adi TalwarA view of the Northern end of Gowanus Canal.

    By Linda La Violette, Penn Rodeen and Benjamin Shepard
  • Mayor at Tres Puentes
    De Blasio Housing Plan Created More Affordable Units, But Left Out City’s Most Vulnerable: Report

    ‘We did have a major emphasis on affordable housing, and a great deal of spending on it,’ during the de Blasio administration, says Samuel Stein, the report’s author and housing policy analyst for CSS.

    By Sadef Ali Kully
  • Opinion: Homeless People are Worthy of Housing — It’s Time to Stop the Stigma

    ‘Stigmatizing and criminalizing homeless people is just another tool the real estate industry uses to maintain status quo and maximize their bottom lines.

    By Rebeka Bryan
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    Advocates Call for Stronger Rental Assistance Programs to Stem Pandemic Evictions

    A coalition of housing and homeless advocates, along with the city’s top real estate group, are calling for the city and state to expand and improve three key rental assistance programs to aid struggling households at risk for eviction — especially before the state’s eviction moratorium expires in May.

    By Sadef Ali Kully
  • City Can Release Gowanus Rezoning Details, But Project Still on Hold: Court

    A state Supreme Court judge partially lifted a temporary restraining order related to the project Thursday, but the public review process is still on hold.

    By Sadef Ali Kully
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Mapping the Future: Opinion

  • Opinion: NYC’s Next Mayor Must Focus on Eradicating Child Homelessness

    'New York State could receive $23 billion as part of the ARPA, representing a once-in-a-lifetime financial base to significantly reduce childhood homelessness, a condition that often sets up the cycle for homelessness as an adult.'

    By Mirtha Santana and Erasma Beras-Monticciolo
  • Opinion: To Reach New York’s Most Vulnerable, Vaccines Must Literally ‘Hit the Streets’

    'To reach those currently experiencing homelessness, it is essential for organizations with longstanding visibility to be empowered and unrestricted to vaccinate in non-traditional settings. Imagine a popup clinic under the GW Bridge, inside Port Authority or inside the MTA terminals at Barclay Center or Grand Central.'

    By Mark Jennings
  • Opinion: The $4 Billion Housing Blueprint for New York City’s Next Mayor

    ‘We call on the next mayor to invest… $2.5 billion for affordable housing rental and homeownership opportunities and $1.5 billion for the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), and to move the city’s reporting structure away from raw production totals and into more meaningful areas, including racial equity and levels of affordability.’

    By Rachel Fee
  • Opinion: Top-Down Comprehensive Planning Will Further Empower Those on Top

    ‘Upon close examination, the speaker’s proposal falls short and leaves the door wide open for the continuation of City Planning’s top-down, developer-driven rezonings by offering them a new shroud of legitimacy: a comprehensive plan engineered by city officials that fast-tracks rezonings.’

    By Tom Angotti
  • Opinion: City Council Should Approve Cea Weaver’s Nomination to the City Planning Commission

    'Time and time again, we have seen the concerns of community members come to fruition, as rezonings have led to rampant gentrification and displacement in working class communities of color across the city.’

    By Katelin Penner

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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