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The question isn’t just whether the mayor’s plan will work. It’s whether it will work in time to satisfy critics who are suddenly skeptical of mayoral control.

ByJessica Siegel 2Comments

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Jun 2015

Housing and Homelessness

Passing Rent Laws is One Thing. How About Enforcing Them?

Some advocates believe that whatever rent regime is ultimately approved by state legislators, the state agency charged with enforcing them will need more resources to do so.

ByJillian Jonas 0Comments

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Jun 2015

Uncategorized

Where is Jeff Klein in the Rent Regulations Debate?

Mayor de Blasio, Gov. Cuomo, Speaker Heastie and others have made their positions on rent regulations and 421-a known. Now we hear from the head of a breakaway Democratic faction.

ByJillian Jonas 5Comments

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Jun 2015

Uncategorized

Loss of 330,000 Affordable Apartments Seen

Advocates disputed media reports that efforts to reform 421-a and repeal vacancy decontrol—two priorities of Mayor de Blasio—were dead, as a report found a huge loss of affordable apartments from…

ByJillian Jonas 1Comment

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Jun 2015

Housing and Homelessness In Depth

UrbaNerd: Really, it’s OK if You Don’t Understand 421-a

The tax break now at the center of negotiations in Albany over essential city housing policies is really rather complicated. Here are the basics.

ByJarrett Murphy 8Comments

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Jun 2015

Uncategorized

10 Days and Ticking: Your Rent Regulations Cheat Sheet

The housing-policy perfect storm that was visible on the radar months ago has arrived right on time: 10 days from the deadline for the state to renew rent regulations and…

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

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May 2015

Opinion

New York’s Rent-Reg Reforms Must Go Further

A tenant praises the mayor’s stance against vacancy decontrol and other aspects of the current system. But she argues that problems with preferential rents must also be addressed when Governor…

ByNatasha Creese 5Comments

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Apr 2015

Housing and Homelessness

Report: New Middle-Class Housing Program Possible

But a second-generation Mitchell-Lama program would have to reconcile some problematic rhetoric around class and resolve some of the flaws that have stripped affordability from tens of thousands of units…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Apr 2015

Opinion

NY’s Prisoners Need Tuition Assistance. So Do You.

Continuing a Pataki-era ban on prison inmates receiving TAP funding doesn’t just hurt the prisoners, a state senator argues. It also harms the communities they return to when their sentence…

ByGustavo Rivera 1Comment

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Mar 2015

Housing and Homelessness

In Rising Market, Vital Mitchell-Lama Program at Crossroads

Deep repair needs and an alluring private market are pushing the mostly middle-class complexes toward the open market, eroding a bulwark of affordability.

ByNorman Oder 1Comment

De Blasio’s Education Agenda Takes Shape at Renewal Schools

Passing Rent Laws is One Thing. How About Enforcing Them?

Where is Jeff Klein in the Rent Regulations Debate?

Loss of 330,000 Affordable Apartments Seen

UrbaNerd: Really, it’s OK if You Don’t Understand 421-a

10 Days and Ticking: Your Rent Regulations Cheat Sheet

New York’s Rent-Reg Reforms Must Go Further

Report: New Middle-Class Housing Program Possible

NY’s Prisoners Need Tuition Assistance. So Do You.

In Rising Market, Vital Mitchell-Lama Program at Crossroads

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