Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen announced at a conference on Friday that the de Blasio administration will seek a way to create a zoning code that requires manufacturing uses among a…
Community groups and trade unions want the construction work done in rezoning neighborhoods to go to local residents and pay union wages. And advocates aren’t convinced that the legal and…
City Limits’ Jarrett Murphy joined Gary Pierre-Pierre on CUNY TV’s Independent Sources to discuss the NYCHA NextGen plan and some of the community concerns it has generated.
Still fuzzy on the details of the policy that ties the mayor’s affordable housing plan to his ambitious rezoning efforts? It’s OK. You’ve nothing to be ashamed of. We’re here…
Touting community benefits, Councilman Rafael Espinal supported the rezoning of East New York in April. We checked in with him on the impact of the rezoning—and the delivery on promises—so…
The de Blasio administration is moving to develop vacant spaces in the Brooklyn neighborhood for a mix of affordable housing and other services—building on earlier plans, engaging the community and…
It’s unclear how closely the city’s rezoning proposal will follow the most detailed community-based plan to emerge during the two-plus years of the de Blasio administration’s housing push.
‘People in the Bronx are looking to be at the real table of envisioning what happens in their neighborhoods. They are open and ready for ideas that can get them…
In the debate over whether the city’s community preference exacerbates segregation, the author argues what’s really needed is a policy that can distinguish whether a neighborhood’s ethnic stamp is a…
At a conference on displacement, the city and advocates split over whether public and private development is a cause of residential displacement, or a potential antidote to it.