How can public housing reach fiscal stability despite resident skepticism to its development plans? One housing expert says the key is to transform the whole system and the process that…
Gotham Gazette and City Limits review the week in housing policy news, from the Democratic candidates touring NYCHA buildings, to Mayor de Blasio winning another vote in favor of rezoning.
The group says it wants more certainty that housing for low-income New Yorkers will be produced and that the work of building the new apartments goes to local workers…
“The de Blasio housing plan is primarily concerned with rental housing, missing a vital opportunity to promote social mobility and long-term economic stability for families and neighborhoods through homeownership.”
Why is the plan to build 200,000 units meeting opposition? Perhaps because that goal fails to address deeper inequalities behind the affordability crisis—or lend itself to simpler, more elegant solutions…
Read our latest opinion blog: “Elite New Yorkers still treat homelessness as “a quality of life” issue for the non-homeless and still equate destitution with criminality.”
Initiatives to develop mixed-income housing on NYCHA land and move a substantial number of apartments from public housing to other programs have some advocates concerned. But they have Ritchie Torres’s…
The former NYCHA chairman was vilified for his plan to develop housing-authority land. Now that the de Blasio administration has issued its own infill plan, is it time for another…
As many community boards around the city balk at proposed zoning changes, Commissioner Vicki Been cites research suggesting fears of displacement are overblown.
The city says its proposed mandatory inclusionary housing program exacts as much affordability as the market will bear. But how did it reach that conclusion?