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‘The fact is that MIH is just bad policy. In New York City’s housing market, it mostly enriches developers and real estate speculators while inflicting real harm to the neighborhoods…

ByLynn Ellsworth 22Comments

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Dec 2020

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Moving Toward Just Land Use and Housing Policies in NYC

‘Across the city, the mayor and developers are pushing rezonings and development projects that attempt to rip out the fertile roots of people and place, to wholly redefine city neighborhoods…

ByCheryl Pahaham and Paul Epstein 1Comment

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Dec 2020

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

City Council OKs Rezoning for Controversial Flushing Waterfront Development

Just five councilmembers voted against the land use application for the project, which has drawn the ire of critics who say it doesn’t include nearly enough affordable housing.

BySadef Ali Kully 0Comments

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Dec 2020

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Don’t Delay New Affordable Housing for Struggling Coney Island

‘1607 Surf Ave. can begin to address the pain of the housing and food instability that many in this community face every day, and offer an economic boost for the…

ByMark Treyger

ByHakeem Jeffries 1Comment

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Dec 2020

Housing and Homelessness News Opinion

Opinion: To Make New York More Affordable, Fix the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit

If the 4 percent rate had been fixed, the same set of affordable housing projects that lost $51 million in equity this year would have raised $240 million instead, helping…

ByRachel Fee 1Comment

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Nov 2020

Housing and Homelessness

Inwood Rezoning Can Move Forward, State’s Highest Court Rules

The New York Court of Appeals declined to hear an Inwood community group’s appeal to a July court decision, which reversed an earlier ruling that would have annulled the controversial…

BySadef Ali Kully 1Comment

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Nov 2020

Housing and Homelessness

City Details Affordable Housing, Remediation Plans for Gowanus Green Site

Officials are planning six buildings of all affordable housing at the contaminated city-owned site, as well as a park and a public school.

BySadef Ali Kully 1Comment

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Nov 2020

Housing and Homelessness

City Council Delays Flushing Waterfront Project Vote, As Lawmakers Raise Concerns

The Council pushed back a vote on the controversial proposal to Dec. 7, after a dozen councilmembers signed onto a letter raising concerns over the project’s lack of commitments to…

BySadef Ali Kully 0Comments

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Nov 2020

Housing and Homelessness Podcasts

The Check In: What’s Next for the Flushing Waterfront Rezoning

Managing editor Jeanmarie Evelly talks with housing and development reporter Sadef Kully about the Flushing waterfront rezoning, where developers want to create a 29-acre waterfront special district with 1,725 apartments…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Nov 2020

Government Housing and Homelessness

Flushing Waterfront Rezoning Plan Moves to City Council Vote, Despite Local Dissent

The entire City Council is due to vote on the private rezoning application for the Queens project, which would create a 29-acre waterfront special district with nine new buildings, including…

BySadef Ali Kully 0Comments

Opinion: It’s Time to End Mandatory Inclusionary Housing. Here Are Some Alternatives

Opinion: Moving Toward Just Land Use and Housing Policies in NYC

City Council OKs Rezoning for Controversial Flushing Waterfront Development

Opinion: Don’t Delay New Affordable Housing for Struggling Coney Island

Opinion: To Make New York More Affordable, Fix the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit

Inwood Rezoning Can Move Forward, State’s Highest Court Rules

City Details Affordable Housing, Remediation Plans for Gowanus Green Site

City Council Delays Flushing Waterfront Project Vote, As Lawmakers Raise Concerns

The Check In: What’s Next for the Flushing Waterfront Rezoning

Flushing Waterfront Rezoning Plan Moves to City Council Vote, Despite Local Dissent

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