A former city housing commissioner writes that the mayor’s efforts to reform the zoning code will have a significant impact on the supply of affordable housing—by addressing obstacles to affordability…
The group says it wants more certainty that housing for low-income New Yorkers will be produced and that the work of building the new apartments goes to local workers…
The key affordable-housing program faces privatization pressures, repair issues and controversies over shareholder elections—but tenants, the City Council and HPD disagree about who is in a position to solve them.
“The de Blasio housing plan is primarily concerned with rental housing, missing a vital opportunity to promote social mobility and long-term economic stability for families and neighborhoods through homeownership.”
“Simply put, inviting significantly more building in low-income communities without guarantees that most or all of the new housing will be affordable to current residents may increase, not reduce, the…
Legislation, politics and math shape Area Median Income, the measurement often at the center of the debate over whether New York’s new affordable housing will help those who need it…
Where will the Council accept the mayor’s two sweeping zoning proposals? Where will they push back? And what’s next as the de Blasio housing plan continues to take shape? Ben…
Why is the plan to build 200,000 units meeting opposition? Perhaps because that goal fails to address deeper inequalities behind the affordability crisis—or lend itself to simpler, more elegant solutions…