Age Justice
Senior Services Start to Feel the Pain of City’s Budget Cut
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The 2021 left out $15 million in previously promised money, and advocates are just now getting a look at what the reduced funds will mean.
council
Levin: City’s Approach to Homelessness Still Lacks Clarity
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‘Some of it has to do with doubling down on existing policies but a lot of it has to do with things that we’ve been advocating for for years that are still not done. A lot of them are things we’ve been talking about for five, six years.’
council
Council Bill on Commercial Leases in Limbo as Evidence of Vacancy Problem Grows
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Speaker Johnson’s office says the Council is working to tweak the decades-old Small Business Jobs Survival Act. But advocates are frustrated and fear ‘a completely different watered down version’ of SBJSA is what will pass.
Albany
Council Could Try to Force City to Boost Value of Homeless Vouchers
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CityFHEPS, the city’s voucher system has moved many homeless people into housing. But more linger in shelters because the voucher won’t pay enough to cover the rent.
council
Closing Rikers: The 10 Major Concerns That Emerged at the Public Hearing
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They are unlikely to stop the plan, but at least some of them will be where last-minute negotiations focus.
council
Max & Murphy: Cops, Communities and the Garner Case
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The chair of the Council’s Committee on Public Safety believes the mayor could play a more decisive role than he’s said, and could have played it much sooner, in deciding Officer Pantaleo’s fate.
Closing Rikers
Max & Murphy: Borough Jails Plan Enters Key Phase
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‘The plan that is in progress right now is the right plan, it’s one that is viable, it’s moving.’
city planning
Opinion: Regulating Development is the City Council’s Job. Let Them Do It.
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‘Last winter another agency, the New York City Department of City Planning deliberately circumvented the Council’s oversight when it told the City Planning Commission that it had to approve four mega towers proposed to be built right on top of existing buildings.’
Age Justice
NYC’s Seniors Get Solid Wins in City’s Budget
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Overall, the budget for the Department for The Aging will grow 13 percent in 2020 from the previous year, reaching $411 million.
Bronx
Key Councilmember Threatens to Block Rezoning Over Displacement Data
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Rafael Salamanca said a rezoning slated for his district would be ‘dead on arrival’ if the de Blasio administration did not provide estimates of how many residents and businesses might be displaced.