Affordable Housing
Can NYC’s Landlords Afford Another Rent Freeze?
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
When the Rent Guidelines Board approved a 0 percent hike last year, landlords warned of impending disaster.
Advocacy
Other Nabes and de Blasio Team Draw Lessons from East New York Rezoning Struggle
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
As housing justice advocates across the city review the outcomes in East New York, many say the results attest to the power of community organizing, especially when stakeholders put forth detailed policy alternatives.
Housing and Homelessness
City’s Empty Spaces: What is the Housing Potential?
Jarrett Murphy |
The city comptroller identified more than 1,000 sites the city owns that could be used to build affordable housing. We visited several of them to see if the potential was real.
Brooklyn
East New York Deal Looks Likely to Disappoint Many Advocates
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Details were still fluid but it appeared the final deal fell well short of what advocates had been hoping for.
Housing and Homelessness
Advocates Like, and Critique, de Blasio’s Homeless Plan
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Organizations that work on homelessness generally applauded the mayor’s plan and the process behind it. But they are pushing the administration to make deeper policy changes in three key areas.
city planning
City’s Staten Island Rezoning Targets Contested Territory
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
In many ways, Bay Street is like corridors in other de Blasio administration neighborhood plans. One difference is the tensions over race, policing and ‘quality of life’ that have played out there.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Councilmember is Man in the Middle of East New York Talks
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Rafael Espinal is putting pressure on the de Blasio administration to tweak the details of the proposed rezoning, as groups skeptical about the city’s plans put pressure on him.
Albany
Max & Murphy on Housing: State Budget Deal Leaves Questions Unanswered
Jarrett Murphy |
A look back at a week when we got to know what we didn’t know yet: about the state budget, East New York, homelessness, NYCHA and more.
de Blasio
What’s Behind the Rise in City Homeless Shelter Numbers?
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
The rising shelter census reflects neither the success nor failure of the de Blasio administration’s approach, but rather a complex mix of promising new policies, lagging efforts and powerful market forces.
bratton
No Backspace: The Public Relations of Counterterrorism
Josmar Trujillo |
Ted Cruz’s Islamophobia is easy to reject. But New Yorkers should also be concerned about their city’s demand for more counter-terrorism funding from the federal government.
