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‘To compete in this environment, the city must offer an attractive affordable housing alternative, define the neighborhoods where it is available, and implement individual deals on a timely fashion.’

ByMichael Lappin 4Comments

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Nov 2018

Opinion

CityViews: Amazon Will Deliver More Displacement to NYC’s Working Class

‘De Blasio and Cuomo are introducing a giant mechanism for displacement into communities that government already fails so shamefully.’

ByShekar Krishnan

ByLina Lee

ByGregory Louis 1Comment

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Oct 2018

Justice

Crime Spike in Bed-Stuy Spurs Call for Block Watchers

The Block Watcher program was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. The program was revived in 2013 across several neighborhoods, including Bed-Stuy and Astoria, and then halted again in recent…

ByKelly Ng 2Comments

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Oct 2018

Housing and Homelessness In Depth

What’s Next for Majora Carter’s ‘Self-Gentrification’ Hub in the South Bronx?

The activist turned developer pitched a community land trust based not around collective ownership of affordable housing but private owners with deep roots in gentrifying areas. Not everyone loved the…

BySadef Ali Kully 4Comments

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Jun 2018

Economy Housing and Homelessness In Depth

Boost to Local BID Has Some Inwood Rezoning Skeptics Worried

A city grant to the Washington Heights Business Improvement District and a group of Inwood arts organizations is part of the city’s Inwood Action Plan aimed at shoring up local…

BySadef Ali Kully 13Comments

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May 2018

Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

The Gray Saga: A Two-Century Struggle to Preserve Black Wealth in Brooklyn

Through the Civil War and Jim Crow, depression and boom, redlining and deregulation, one Black family near the historic Weeksville settlement managed to preserve its hold on the family property.…

ByAimee VonBokel 5Comments

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May 2018

Housing and Homelessness Video

Video: Displacement Around the World, Lessons for and from NYC

An author from our recent ‘Global Squeeze’ series discusses the project and its findings.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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May 2018

Housing and Homelessness In Depth

The Lessons NYC Activists Have for Those Fighting Displacement the World Over

Learn from defeat. Think big. Follow the money. And organize, organize, organize.

ByDaniel Bates 2Comments

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May 2018

Housing and Homelessness

To Save a Stadium for the Middle Class, Manila Advocates Used Preservation as a Tool

The saga of the Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium in the Philippines illustrates the possibility—and potential pitfalls—of using heritage preservation as a tool to resist gentrification.

ByPurple Chrystyl Romero 1Comment

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May 2018

Housing and Homelessness Investigations