Boroughs
NYC Housing Calendar, March 2-8
Jeanmarie Evelly |
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
Brooklyn
Opinion: NYC’s Housing Emergency Demands Good Cause Eviction, More Social Housing
Sandy Nurse |
“The city and state must stop relying on failed capitalist strategies when developing more housing, which is why I introduced a bill Thursday that would require the city to study the feasibility of creating a municipal social housing development agency.”
Government
NYC Housing Calendar, Feb. 16-22
Jeanmarie Evelly |
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: NIMBYs Are Wrong—New Housing is Good for NY’s Climate Goals
Ben Hitchcock |
“Invoking environmental concerns to block construction is a classic page in the NIMBY playbook, but when suburbanites push back against dense, transit-oriented housing, they are not just hurting the people who urgently need housing in our city—they are hurting the climate for future generations of New Yorkers, too.”
Government
Wait Times for NYCHA Apartments Doubled Last Year, As Number of Vacant Units Climb
Jeanmarie Evelly |
The length of time it takes NYCHA to rent out available apartments has climbed in recent years, one of many factors exacerbating the city’s affordable housing crisis, lawmakers say. “They just say it’s not ready,” said one resident currently living in a homeless shelter who has been waiting more than 10 months to move into the NYCHA unit she was approved for.
Economy
NYC Housing Calendar, Jan. 25-Feb. 1
Jeanmarie Evelly |
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
Economy
NYC’s Homeless Shelter Population Ballooned in 2022. How Will Leaders Address the Crisis This Year?
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Thursday night, the same day Mayor Eric Adams unveiled a preliminary budget focused on “fiscal discipline” and two days after Gov. Kathy Hochul laid out her priorities for the year ahead in her State of the State speech, 70,525 people slept in a New York City Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelter.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Hochul’s Affordable Development Plan Can Transform NY Housing
Rachel Fee |
“New York finally has a big, bold, and brave plan to really make the state affordable. It will attack the lack of housing supply, the inequitable distribution of housing, and the reticence of some local leaders to do their part.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: City’s New Rules on Short Term Rentals Will Hurt Small Homeowners
David Summers |
“Undermining the ability of individual homeowners to rent property based on their needs is an imbalanced infringement upon owners’ rights, discourages home ownership, and represents a slippery slope towards government overreach. Prohibiting short term rentals would severely impact homeowners’ ability to meet financial obligations and continue to live in the city.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Governor Hochul’s State of Housing
Jumaane Williams |
“As Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to deliver the speech that could define her first full term, she has an opportunity to set a path of real progress on housing. But she will have to break the patterns of past leadership—and her own first year in office.”
