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Will neighborhoods accept the mayor’s housing and rezoning plans? Conversations about AMI, FAR, 421-a and other policy particulars will be important. But the mayor must also confront a larger distrust…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Jan 2016

Housing and Homelessness

De Blasio Housing Chief Rebuts Critics of East N.Y. Plan

Testifying about a controversial rezoning proposal, the HPD commissioner rejected the idea that city-subsidized apartments would charge rents out of step with prevailing rents or average incomes in the Brooklyn…

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

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Jan 2016

Uncategorized

Can the Bronx Develop Without Displacement?

This weekend, City Limits will moderate a panel discussion featuring a tenant leader, artists and the commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to try to answer that…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Nov 2015

Uncategorized

The Complicated Research on how Gentrification Affects the Poor

Conventional wisdom is that gentrification displaces the poor. Research contradicts that—but it doesn’t paint a simple or fully reassuring picture.

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Nov 2015

Housing and Homelessness Video

City Housing Chief Aims to Rebut Concerns About Displacement

As many community boards around the city balk at proposed zoning changes, Commissioner Vicki Been cites research suggesting fears of displacement are overblown.

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

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Nov 2015

Housing and Homelessness

How are NYC’s Community Boards Reacting to de Blasio’s Housing Proposals?

Unfounded fears, legitimate doubts and ambitious alternatives have greeted the mayor’s two proposals to change zoning rules to permit greater housing density and require affordable housing.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 5Comments

De Blasio Housing Plan Hung Up as Much on Distrust as on Details

De Blasio Housing Chief Rebuts Critics of East N.Y. Plan

Can the Bronx Develop Without Displacement?

The Complicated Research on how Gentrification Affects the Poor

City Housing Chief Aims to Rebut Concerns About Displacement

How are NYC’s Community Boards Reacting to de Blasio’s Housing Proposals?

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De Blasio Housing Plan Hung Up as Much on Distrust as on Details

De Blasio Housing Chief Rebuts Critics of East N.Y. Plan

Can the Bronx Develop Without Displacement?

The Complicated Research on how Gentrification Affects the Poor

City Housing Chief Aims to Rebut Concerns About Displacement

How are NYC’s Community Boards Reacting to de Blasio’s Housing Proposals?

Newsletter

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