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Housing advocates have called on the city and state to develop a $10 billion relief package that includes a moratorium on rent, mortgage and utility payments

BySadef Ali Kully 70Comments

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Feb 2020

Housing and Homelessness

Hearing Ahead for East New York ‘Cease-and-Desist’ Zone

‘If won,’ the backers note, ‘this would be the only zone in all of Brooklyn, a borough rapidly undergoing gentrification.’

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jan 2020

Housing and Homelessness

Bill Would Make Brooklyn a Real Estate ‘Cease-and-Desist’ Zone

Advocates hoping to fend off aggressive investor interest think they might get a new defensive weapon: a cease-and-desist zone covering all of Brooklyn.

ByJarrett Murphy 6Comments

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Sep 2019

Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

Call for City to Take Aggressive Steps on Affordable Homeownership

Affordable homeownership was an ingredient in the prescription that brought New York City back from the dead. Now, some experts say, it is homeownership that needs saving in New York.

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Dec 2018

Opinion

CityViews: Here is How New York City Can End Property-Tax Inequality

‘The low- and middle-income communities in our city are bearing the brunt of the burden, essentially subsidizing the property taxes of our city’s most wealthy and affluent areas.’

ByNicole Malliotakis 4Comments

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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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Oct 2017

Opinion

CityViews: Community Land Trusts are a Path to Affordable Homeownership

‘CLTs achieve a delicate balance of providing families with the opportunities of homeownership, like building equity and providing stability, while also protecting public resources in perpetuity.’

ByDonovan Richards 3Comments

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Sep 2017

Opinion

CityViews: This Three-Step Plan Will Reopen the Door to Homeownership for NYC’s Middle Class

‘We must institute policies and programs to ensure that every New Yorker has access to affordable homeownership. It is how we can revitalize the middle class in New York City,”…

ByLetitia James 7Comments

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Jun 2017

Housing and Homelessness Video

Stand-Up Desk Video: Caroline Nagy on the Ongoing Foreclosure Crisis

Not that foreclosure is the only thing city homeowners, or policymakers, have to worry about.

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Mar 2017

Uncategorized

CityViews: The Case for New Regs for the City’s Affordable Co-ops

Income-restricted cooperatives comprise some 30,000 apartments in more than 1,300 formerly abandoned or distressed multi-family buildings. The city’s proposed regulations to stabilize this key affordable-housing stock have met with opposition—some…

ByAndrew Reicher 16Comments

Freeze Sought on Rent, Mortgage and Utility Payments as COVID Impact Grows

Hearing Ahead for East New York ‘Cease-and-Desist’ Zone

Bill Would Make Brooklyn a Real Estate ‘Cease-and-Desist’ Zone

Call for City to Take Aggressive Steps on Affordable Homeownership

CityViews: Here is How New York City Can End Property-Tax Inequality

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

CityViews: Community Land Trusts are a Path to Affordable Homeownership

CityViews: This Three-Step Plan Will Reopen the Door to Homeownership for NYC’s Middle Class

Stand-Up Desk Video: Caroline Nagy on the Ongoing Foreclosure Crisis

CityViews: The Case for New Regs for the City’s Affordable Co-ops

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