Housing and Homelessness
New Research on How Historic Districts Affect Affordable Housing
Jarrett Murphy |
A trio of reports out this spring look into density, demographics and development in the city’s landmarked areas.
Bronx
City Delays Next Step in Jerome Avenue Rezoning
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
A release of the draft scope for the latest area targeted by the de Blasio housing plan will be pushed from May to September to allow more community engagement.
Affordable Housing
Affordable Housing: How Low Can de Blasio Go?
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
The administration says it will use subsidies, not zoning, to serve New Yorkers with extremely low incomes. But with all the costs and tradeoffs that entails, how many deeply affordable units is the city likely to produce?
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: Saving NYCHA Will Require More Change, Not Less
Roy Strickland |
How can public housing reach fiscal stability despite resident skepticism to its development plans? One housing expert says the key is to transform the whole system and the process that charts its future.
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.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
NYCHA Says Tenants Can Apply to Monitor Infill Deals
Jarrett Murphy |
Stakeholder committees are forming at Wyckoff Gardens and Holmes Towers, the first two developments selected for new construction to create housing that’s 50 percent affordable on NYCHA territory.
Brooklyn
Reporters and Gentrification: Enablers? Chroniclers? Resisters?
Jarrett Murphy |
Brooklyn Deep’s Third Rail podcast invited City Limits to discuss the role of hyperlocal media in covering development, displacement and ‘the G word.’
Gentrification
WNYC and The Nation Ask Us About the Housing Market
Jarrett Murphy |
The WNYC-Nation series ‘There Goes the Neighborhood’ goes into East New York, the housing market and zoning … and City Limits goes there with them.
NYCHA
NYCHA Residents: Tenant Input Cut Short on Development Plan
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Residents of the Wyckoff Gardens Houses say NYCHA is blocking genuine tenant input by accelerating its timetable for finding a builder to construct mixed-income housing there.
Brooklyn
CityViews: Distorting Downtown Brooklyn’s Past Can Only Obscure Its Future
Norman Oder |
Could a ‘model’ Central Business District have been created by building luxury housing? Only if we listen to the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership.
