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As the mayor and City Council focus on creating a budget that provides essential services for all city residents, increasing support in the city’s budget for arts and culture should…

ByJorge Daniel Veneciano

ByLisa Robb 0Comments

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May 2016

Government

Acting Out Their Demands, Advocates Take the Stage to Influence NYC Policy

Advocates using Theater of the Oppressed techniques are turning an empowerment tool developed in South America in the 1970s to homeless policy issues, with HUD and City Councilmembers in the…

ByJarrett Lyons 1Comment

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May 2016

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

NYCHA’s Financial Picture is Improving, if Still Dire

A year into NextGeneration NYCHA, earlier fears the revenue would fall short appear to have been unfounded. But the authority’s budget gaps remain large.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

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Mar 2016

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

NYCHA Sees New Efforts Offering Less Fiscal Salvation

The Authority revealed that its financial picture is worse than expected, in large part because it has revised downward its projections of savings and new revenue from the NextGen plan.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

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Mar 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Ayes and Nays on Mayor’s Zoning Changes Pave Way for Bigger Questions

The Council vote on MIH and ZQA represented a historic change to the rules of development in New York City and a huge political victory on the mayor. Its impact…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Mar 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Council Sees 5 Sticking Points on De Blasio Rezoning Plan

Legislators’ concerns over the plan to rezone East New York mirror their worries about the mayor’s citywide proposals. A deal seems likely. Its exact shape remains anybody’s guess.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

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Mar 2016

Housing and Homelessness Podcasts

Max & Murphy on Housing: Poison Pills and Looming Votes

The housing commissioner names names, a Council caucus states terms and the yeas and nays are just days away for East New York.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Feb 2016

Housing and Homelessness

The 10 Concerns Councilmembers Had About Mayor’s Inclusionary Housing Proposal

A very, very condensed version of the discussion at the City Council hearing on the first of the mayor’s two citywide zoning proposals.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jan 2016

Uncategorized

City Council Announces Bill to Increase Pay, Reform Position

Instead of sticking with a commission’s recommendation of a $138,315 salary for Council members, up from $112,500, the legislation being introduced will outline a salary of $148,500.

ByGotham Gazette 0Comments

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Jan 2016

Uncategorized

Just Ahead of Oversight Hearing, City Announces Ethnic Media Plan

New York has about 95 ethnic newspapers with a combined circulation of 2.9 million people, but, in the past, city government has largely relied on English-language publications. Is that changing?

ByGotham Gazette 0Comments

CityViews: City Funding for the Arts Strengthens Our Social Fabric

Acting Out Their Demands, Advocates Take the Stage to Influence NYC Policy

NYCHA’s Financial Picture is Improving, if Still Dire

NYCHA Sees New Efforts Offering Less Fiscal Salvation

Ayes and Nays on Mayor’s Zoning Changes Pave Way for Bigger Questions

Council Sees 5 Sticking Points on De Blasio Rezoning Plan

Max & Murphy on Housing: Poison Pills and Looming Votes

The 10 Concerns Councilmembers Had About Mayor’s Inclusionary Housing Proposal

City Council Announces Bill to Increase Pay, Reform Position

Just Ahead of Oversight Hearing, City Announces Ethnic Media Plan

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