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The board’s resolution rejects the rezoning proposal for the wealthy neighborhoods outright, rather than submit suggestions for improvement, arguing the plan would fail to achieve the city’s affordable housing goals.

ByDavid Brand 5Comments

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Jul 2021

Housing and Homelessness News

More New Yorkers are ‘Aging in Place’—But Growing Older at Home Isn’t Easy

City residents looking for alternatives to nursing home care, particularly those with limited incomes, confront an array of hurdles: lack of affordable housing, a shortage of safe and accessible…

ByGail Robinson 8Comments

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Jul 2021

Housing and Homelessness

NYC Pays $122 Million to Turn Bronx Cluster Sites into Housing for Homeless Families

The 14 building-deal marks the third time the city has purchased cluster site properties to convert into permanent homes. It also illustrates the complicated reliance on bad landlords to provide…

ByDavid Brand 1Comment

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Jul 2021

Housing and Homelessness Transportation

Bronx Residents—And a Developer—Weigh in on What Future Metro-North Stations Might Bring

The MTA will add four new Metro North stations to the East Bronx as part of its Penn Station Access Initiative. The Department of City Planning is researching the best…

ByGriffin Kelly 10Comments

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Jun 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: It’s Time to Make Housing Vouchers Universal

‘What low-income renters and homeless New Yorkers really need is Section 8 for all: housing assistance offered as an entitlement for everyone who qualifies.’

ByJacquelyn Simone 10Comments

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Jun 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness News

Thousands Being Sent Back to Homeless Shelters in Return to Pre-Pandemic Status Quo

The city is moving hundreds of homeless adults from hotel rooms—rented in the early days of the pandemic to limit the spread of the coronavirus—back into congregate shelters, where residents…

ByDavid Brand 0Comments

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Jun 2021

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Brooklyn Community Board 6 Backs Gowanus Rezoning—If City Funds NYCHA Fixes

The board says its support for the project, which would upzone a large swath of Gowanus, hinges on the city funding nearly $300 million in repairs at the nearby Gowanus…

ByDavid Brand 3Comments

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Jun 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Shaun Donovan Praises Atlantic Yards, But It’s No Model Housing Partnership

A 2005 media event promised more affordability than what’s been produced. The next mayor may face tough decisions, as 876 more income-linked units must be built in four years.

ByNorman Oder 1Comment

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Jun 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness News

How the NYC Mayoral Candidates’ Housing Platforms Stack Up

‘If NYC’s leadership can commit to ending traffic deaths—not just to the tools they’ll use to achieve it but to the actual goal—then they should be able to do the…

ByEse Olumhense 2Comments

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Jun 2021

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness

Will New York Make Good on Pledge to Convert Hotels into Affordable Homes?

The Assembly’s Housing Committee is scheduled to vote on a measure Tuesday morning that would unlock $100 million in state funds to purchase unused hotels and convert them into affordable…

ByDavid Brand 8Comments

Manhattan Community Board Votes to Reject SoHo-NoHo Rezoning

More New Yorkers are ‘Aging in Place’—But Growing Older at Home Isn’t Easy

NYC Pays $122 Million to Turn Bronx Cluster Sites into Housing for Homeless Families

Bronx Residents—And a Developer—Weigh in on What Future Metro-North Stations Might Bring

Opinion: It’s Time to Make Housing Vouchers Universal

Thousands Being Sent Back to Homeless Shelters in Return to Pre-Pandemic Status Quo

Brooklyn Community Board 6 Backs Gowanus Rezoning—If City Funds NYCHA Fixes

Opinion: Shaun Donovan Praises Atlantic Yards, But It’s No Model Housing Partnership

How the NYC Mayoral Candidates’ Housing Platforms Stack Up

Will New York Make Good on Pledge to Convert Hotels into Affordable Homes?

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