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NYC Housing

Opinion: NYC Must Do More to Reverse Racial Segregation, Starting With Housing

By Rafael Salamanca | November 18, 2020

‘The Where We Live NYC Plan thankfully moves beyond the simplistic supply-side diagnosis and acknowledges the legacy of systemic racism. However, the plan needs to put forth bold and specific commitments to change business as usual. We can learn from other cities that have gone much further.’

rezonings

The Check In: What’s Next for the Flushing Waterfront Rezoning

By Jeanmarie Evelly | November 13, 2020

Managing editor Jeanmarie Evelly talks with housing and development reporter Sadef Kully about the Flushing waterfront rezoning, where developers want to create a 29-acre waterfront special district with 1,725 apartments and other facilities.

Housing New York

A Look at the City’s ‘Blueprint’ Plan to Address Decades of Housing Inequities

By Sadef Ali Kully | November 9, 2020

The “Where We Live” report, released by HPD, outlines the city’s plans to create more equitable housing and capital investments by the year 2050 and further its Fair Housing goals.

Mapping the Future

Amid COVID and Fiscal Woes, Mayor’s Housing Plan Enters Stretch Run

By Sadef Ali Kully | September 22, 2020

Mayor de Blasio’s initiative to build or preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing seems to be on track. But is it on target?

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: Now More Than Ever, NYC Must Revamp its Housing Program

By Maria Diaz Gonzalez | August 6, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the city to the brink of a housing crisis. It is time for the city to design housing policies that retain the people who are the heart, the lungs, and the soul of New York City

Affordable Housing
HNY site on 127th

Advocates: Cuts to NYC’s Housing Plan Will Have Deeper Costs

By Jarrett Murphy | June 11, 2020

Reacting to the drastic drop in city revenue, Mayor de Blasio has proposed shifting $1 billion in capital spending on his housing plan from this fiscal year and next to later years.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: De Blasio’s Housing Plan is Neither Affordable Nor Fair

By Pablo Zevallos | April 18, 2019

‘The de Blasio administration has had the tools at its disposal to produce more deeply affordable housing for New York City’s poorer residents, who are disproportionately black and Latino.’

Affordable Housing

Affordability Program for Small Buildings Closes Deals, Learns Lessons

By Jarrett Murphy | July 10, 2018

The Landlord Ambassador initiative aims to recruit small- and medium-sized buildings into the city’s preservation programs.

Affordable Housing

How Advocacy Has, and Hasn’t, Shaped De Blasio’s Housing Plan 2.0

By Abigail Savitch-Lew | November 15, 2017

The revamped housing plan includes steps to implement many of the policy ideas proposed by advocates within the last couple years, though clear disagreements remain between the administration and critics.

Affordable Housing

Advocates, Council Continue Push for Deeper Affordability

By Abigail Savitch-Lew | September 14, 2017

The Real Affordability for All coalition released a report strongly critical of the mayor’s housing strategy, while councilmembers acknowledged improvements but pressed for more low-income units.

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