A new tenant protection czar, a push for comprehensive planning, news from the Bay Street and Bushwick rezoning discussions, ideas for closing the housing-wealth gap and more.
‘The de Blasio administration has had the tools at its disposal to produce more deeply affordable housing for New York City’s poorer residents, who are disproportionately black and Latino.’
Are rent regulated apartments occupied primarily by the wealthy? Do rent regulated tenants hoard their homes?
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.
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.
Even taking Section 8 and other assistance programs into account, it’s still the poorest New Yorkers that struggle the most with housing costs.
‘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.’
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.
‘Le imploramos al Concejo que vote en contra de este plan, el cual es completamente inapropiado para nuestro vecindario. ‘
‘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. ‘