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While shelter staff are the primary schedulers of appointments at the city’s Asylum Application Help Center, a network of community-based organizations and legal providers can refer cases too. Yet city…

ByDaniel Parra 1Comment

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Sep 2024

Education Government Housing and Homelessness Immigration

‘Stop Evicting Children’: Rally Calls to End Shelter Deadlines for Migrants As New School Year Starts

As of Aug. 18, the city had issued 60-day deadlines to 12,689 families with children, including 18,348 children under 18, officials said. Critics say frequent shelter moves are disruptive to…

BySubeksha Poudel 0Comments

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Sep 2024

Climate and Environment Health

Opinion: Permanent Housing is the Way Forward as Communities Overheat

“While it becomes more dangerous to live outside without reprieve from the heat, the city has doubled down on penalizing the homeless instead of focusing on housing initiatives.”

ByRudrani Ghosh 0Comments

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Aug 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

City of Yes for Housing: See How Your Community Board & Borough President Voted

As the mayor’s citywide zoning reform plan undergoes public review, City Limits is keeping tabs on responses. So far, more than half of the city’s community boards have voted unfavorably,…

ByJeanmarie Evelly

ByChris Janaro

ByPatrick Spauster 6Comments

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Aug 2024

Government Health Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations Labor

Spiking Evictions Renew Calls to Reform NYC Marshals System

Last year, marshals served more than 13,000 evictions, up from 5,000 in 2022, and just 268 in 2021, when the pandemic eviction moratorium was still in place. Over the past…

ByPatrick Spauster 6Comments

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Aug 2024

Housing and Homelessness Immigration

For Migrants in Shelter, An Asylum Application Can Mean the Difference Between 30 or 60 More Days

According to City Hall, since rolling out new stricter re-sheltering rules for adult migrants without children in May, it’s assessed over 2,600 shelter extension cases at the Reticketing Center, issuing…

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

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Aug 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

City’s Public Hospitals Mark Milestone in Surprising Role: Housing Patients

NYC Health + Hospitals says it’s found permanent homes for more than 1,200 of its patients and their families, both through supportive housing placements and in affordable apartments on its…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 2Comments

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Aug 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Housing Calendar Resources

NYC Housing Calendar, Aug. 12-19

City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Jul 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Immigration In Depth Investigations

Missed Mail is Complicating Migrants’ Immigration Cases, Exacerbated by Shelter Deadlines

While migrants can receive mail at the city’s shelters, many have struggled to track down important correspondence, according to legal service providers and advocates—especially after the city restricted the length…

ByDaniel Parra 1Comment

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Jul 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

Kingston Made Rent Law History Two Years Ago. That Was the Easy Part.

For tenants in the first upstate city to adopt rent stabilization, benefiting from the law’s basic protections is an uphill battle.

ByEmma Whitford

BySam Mellins 1Comment

Who Can Get Appointments at NYC’s Asylum Application Help Center, And Who Can’t?

‘Stop Evicting Children’: Rally Calls to End Shelter Deadlines for Migrants As New School Year Starts

Opinion: Permanent Housing is the Way Forward as Communities Overheat

City of Yes for Housing: See How Your Community Board & Borough President Voted

Spiking Evictions Renew Calls to Reform NYC Marshals System

For Migrants in Shelter, An Asylum Application Can Mean the Difference Between 30 or 60 More Days

City’s Public Hospitals Mark Milestone in Surprising Role: Housing Patients

NYC Housing Calendar, Aug. 12-19

Missed Mail is Complicating Migrants’ Immigration Cases, Exacerbated by Shelter Deadlines

Kingston Made Rent Law History Two Years Ago. That Was the Easy Part.

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