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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
