Mapping the Future
Six Down, One to Go: Where de Blasio’s Rezonings Stand
Sadef Ali Kully |
What impact have the mayor’s moves had on East New York, Downtown Far Rockaway, East Harlem, Jerome Avenue and Inwood?
Affordable Housing
Housing Advocates Still Hope to Save Funding for Affordable Construction
Sadef Ali Kully |
The recently passed budget shifted capital spending on housing to later years. But some in the housing world think good news from Washington could lead the city to change course.
Affordable Housing
COVID-19 Hit Hard in Areas With Deep Housing Violations: Report
Sadef Ali Kully |
Housing code violations, rent burdens and mortgage vulnerability were high in some of the areas that saw high coronavirus death rates.
Affordable Housing
Council Softens but Doesn’t Stop Hit to Housing Budget
Sadef Ali Kully |
The final fiscal 2021 spending plan staved off cuts to smaller housing programs, but retained a shift of roughly a billion dollars in capital spending on the mayor’s affordability plan.
Affordable Housing
Advocates: NYC Needs More Money, New Model to Meet Housing Crisis
Sadef Ali Kully |
Resisting budget cuts is just part of the plan, they say. Changing how the housing market works is the deeper goal.
Affordable Housing
Advocates: Cuts to NYC’s Housing Plan Will Have Deeper Costs
Jarrett Murphy |
Reacting to the drastic drop in city revenue, Mayor de Blasio has proposed shifting $1 billion in capital spending on his housing plan from this fiscal year and next to later years.
Brooklyn
Worries About the Pace of Progress Four Years After East New York’s Rezoning
Sadef Ali Kully |
Residents, community groups and the borough president’s office are voicing their concerns over whether benefits promised to the neighborhood are being delivered–and how the COVID-19 budget crunch might affect the city’s ability to make good on the rest of the to-do list.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: COVID-19 Shows the Need to Combine Housing with Healthcare
Claire Altman |
‘The COVID 19 pandemic boldly underscores the need for housing and health to be coordinated at the front end of planning a development project.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Don’t Gut the City’s Housing Plan
Rachel Fee |
‘Now is the time to double down on affordable housing, and build on the progress already made under the mayor’s ambitious housing plan. It is not the time to retreat.’
Housing and Homelessness
City’s Basement Apartment Program Buried by COVID-19 Budget Cuts
Sadef Ali Kully |
The program aimed to test ways to legalize basement apartments as a way to create new, sanctioned affordable housing units for tenants and help the moderate-income homeowners who might rent some of the spaces out.
