affordability
The Five ‘Myths’ of Rent Regulation in New York
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Are rent regulated apartments occupied primarily by the wealthy? Do rent regulated tenants hoard their homes?
affordability
Comptroller Says Housing Plan is Failing, Calls for More Units for Low-Income NYers
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Stringer’s plan would shift the remaining 85,000 units of new construction under the mayor’s plan to serve very low-income and extremely low-income families.
HOUSING and DEVELOPMENT
On the 2019 Housing Agenda: Rent Regs, Rezonings … and Real Affordability?
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A video conversation with a top tenant organizer and a leading affordable-housing advocate about what 2019 has in store for New York renters and neighborhoods.
HOUSING and DEVELOPMENT
New Data Confirms Familiar Concern: Low-Income NYers Face Harshest Housing Market
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Even taking Section 8 and other assistance programs into account, it’s still the poorest New Yorkers that struggle the most with housing costs.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: We Need Innovative Designs—and Open Minds—to Solve the Housing Shortage
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‘Good design and cost-cutting seem to be contradictory goals in part because the conversation about the nation’s housing scarcity problem leaves little room for nuance.’
affordability
Rezonings Carry Opportunities and Risks for Low-Income Seniors
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The city is taking several steps to shore up housing options for aging New Yorkers. The question is whether those moves will offset the displacement pressures many feel.
affordability
Opinion: El Concejo Debe Rechazar o Reducir El Plan de Rezonificación de Jerome Avenue
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‘Le imploramos al Concejo que vote en contra de este plan, el cual es completamente inapropiado para nuestro vecindario. ‘
affordability
CityViews: Community Coalition Says the Council Must Reject or Reduce Jerome Avenue Plan
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‘The Bronx Coalition for a Community Vision believes that the city’s plan will cause massive displacement and loss of businesses and jobs in our community. We implore the Council to vote down this plan, which is flat wrong for our neighborhood. ‘
affordability
The Ambiguous Game of Assessing Affordability in a Rezoning
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A city analysis of the Jerome Avenue rezoning includes a list of sites and how much affordable housing might be built on each one, but the city says the list is not to be taken as a real prediction.
affordability
The NYC Community Land Trust Movement Wants to Go Big
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Large and small organizations have envisioned ways that, with the right resources and city policies, the city’s nascent community land trusts could come to encompass thousands of apartments.