housing production Archives

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The city’s housing vacancy rate plunged to 1.41 percent in 2023, the lowest it has been since 1968, officials announced Thursday. Options were particularly scarce for low-income New Yorkers: just…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 3Comments

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Nov 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness Justice Politics

How a Bronx Election Swerved the Course for Plan to House Formerly-Incarcerated

Political calculus around a City Council race in the East Bronx has slowed the approval process for a plan to house seriously ill people leaving jail, and could cue up…

ByEmma Whitford 1Comment

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Aug 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Towards a ‘City Island of Yes’

We cannot continue to uphold zoning for “character” to such an extent that we leave communities stunted for growth AND community members on the streets and in unstable situations.

ByLauren Nye 2Comments

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Jul 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Can a Science-Based Approach Break the NIMBY-YIMBY Divide on Housing?

“Despite the growing consensus that New York must build its way out of the housing crisis, NIMBY voices continue to prevail over our state’s most powerful leaders from Governor Hochul…

ByTucker Reed 4Comments

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Apr 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Politics

Late Session Goals Emerge As Housing Policy Fizzles Out of NY Budget

With six weeks left until the end of the legislative session, Hochul is already looking ahead, insisting that she will work with Senate and Assembly leaders to address New York’s…

ByEmma Whitford 2Comments

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Mar 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: How Exclusionary Zoning Perpetuates Segregation in New York

“In the 2020 Census, the New York City metro area was found to be running just behind Milwaukee and Detroit as the third most segregated region of the country according…

ByBraden Crooks 3Comments

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Mar 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness Politics

Housing Policy Faultlines Emerge Ahead Of Final Albany Budget Deal

The Senate and Assembly on Tuesday released their annual budget resolutions, responding to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $227 billion spending proposal unveiled last month. They rejected the bulk of Hochul’s…

ByEmma Whitford 0Comments

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Jan 2023

Economy Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness In Depth Politics

NYC’s Homeless Shelter Population Ballooned in 2022. How Will Leaders Address the Crisis This Year?

Thursday night, the same day Mayor Eric Adams unveiled a preliminary budget focused on “fiscal discipline” and two days after Gov. Kathy Hochul laid out her priorities for the year…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Jan 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Hochul’s Affordable Development Plan Can Transform NY Housing

“New York finally has a big, bold, and brave plan to really make the state affordable. It will attack the lack of housing supply, the inequitable distribution of housing, and…

ByRachel Fee 0Comments

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Nov 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Opinion

Opinion: An All-of-the-Above to Fix NYC’s Housing Crisis

“We’re long past the point where we can squabble over one solution versus another. We have so many tools at our disposal—far too many of them sitting around gathering dust.…

ByValerie White 3Comments

‘Profound Scarcity’: Apartments Available to NYC Renters Hit Historic Low Last Year