News
Why We’re Launching a Newsletter on Housing
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Our new newsletter, Mapping the Future, will focus on housing issues of importance to people who live in New York City
Affordable Housing
Housing Update: Bay Street Rezoning Moves Forward, City Presents Bushwick Draft Plan
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It was a busy week for news related to New York City housing. Here’s a roundup of what you might have missed.
Affordable Housing
Data Reveal Threats to Affordable Housing Across NYC Neighborhoods
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The Association for Neighborhood Housing and Development released its annual data graphic report Thursday, cataloging the risks to affordable housing in each of the city’s 59 community districts.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: De Blasio’s Housing Plan is Neither Affordable Nor Fair
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‘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.’
Affordable Housing
Does Mayor’s Housing Plan Help Where It’s Needed? Report Offers Complex Answers
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The detailed study by the city’s Independent Budget Office set out to address questions that have dogged the de Blasio plan, as they dogged the Bloomberg administration’s housing plan before it.
Affordable Housing
CityViews: State Must Equip the City to Truly Combat the Homeless Crisis
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‘Mayor de Blasio’s plan to combat homelessness was a good start, but its commitment to permanent housing solutions falls short for the magnitude of the emergency we face,’ Borough President Eric Adams writes.
Affordable Housing
City Council, Skeptics Spar Over New Round of Housing Bills
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The de Blasio administration defended its housing lottery system against claims of opacity and unfairness.
Mapping the Future
De Blasio’s Sixth Year in Office Could Feature Three Neighborhood Rezonings
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The mayor in 2015 set a goal of rezoning up to 15 neighborhoods in a drive to create more density and more affordable housing. Five rezonings have passed and at least three are likely to move forward in 2019.
Affordable Housing
CityViews: U.S. Cities Have the Power to Ease Our Housing Crisis
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‘Housing affordability can seem like an intractable problem – an issue where local policy makers are powerless in the face of national economic forces. The reality is quite different.’
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.