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Heading into 2024, City Limits looks back at key stories and investigations from the last 12 months on New York City housing, homelessness, climate policy and more.

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Dec 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness Justice

City to Limit the Use of Criminal Background Checks in Screening Tenants

The Fair Chance for Housing Act, passed by the City Council Wednesday, will limit the extent to which landlords, real estate brokers and other entities can factor in past convictions…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Dec 2023

Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness

NYC Will Soon Have to Report Details of Street Homeless Sweeps

The Adams administration will have to report quarterly on the cost and characteristics of “removals,” when city agencies force a person out of a public spot, often clearing their possessions…

ByEmma Whitford 0Comments

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Dec 2023

Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: How a Writing Program Helped Homeless New Yorkers

“When neighbors have the chance to connect across housing status, it makes all of us and our neighborhoods kinder and stronger. It allows us all to learn from each other…

ByDayse da Cunha

BySusan Buttenwieser 0Comments

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Dec 2023

Housing and Homelessness Politics

Two Bills Targeting Illegal Rent Increases Await Their Fate

The state Senate and Assembly passed a duo of bills in June aimed at helping rent stabilized tenants dig deeper into their rent histories to challenge suspicious increases. The governor…

ByEmma Whitford 2Comments

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Dec 2023

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Universal Housing Vouchers are Key to Ending a National Crisis

“Fully funding Section 8 to establish a Universal Housing Voucher program will clear the way to reduce spending on everything from health care to food security, and set a course…

ByRafael E. Cestero 0Comments

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Nov 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion Politics

Opinion: Fighting for Basement Apartment Tenants, 11 Years After Hurricane Sandy

“Instead of turning a blind eye to the suffering of basement and cellar apartment dwellers, disproportionately low-income and from immigrant communities, we must find the political courage to face this…

ByJessica González-Rojas

ByHarvey Epstein 1Comment

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Oct 2023

Climate and Environment Government Housing and Homelessness

New Bill Would Require NYC Landlords to Distribute Flood Evacuation Plans

The legislation introduced in the City Council last week is geared at keeping tenants in flood-prone basement apartments out of harm’s way.

ByMariana Simões 0Comments

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Oct 2023

Housing and Homelessness Justice

NYC Mayor’s Latest Bid to Suspend Adult Shelter Rights Cools in Court

“The parties have agreed that for now there should not be a war of legal papers,” New York State Supreme Court Judge Gerald Lebovits said Thursday. “That for now, the…

ByEmma Whitford 0Comments

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Oct 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness Immigration

‘They Assigned Us Far Away’: As Shelter Limit Policy Expands, Some Families Are Already Too Familiar

Hundreds of recently-arrived immigrant families with children have been subject to 28-day limits on hotel shelter stays in recent months, as the city insists it’s run out of space to…

ByEmma Whitford

ByDaniel Parra 1Comment

2023 Look-Back: Our Biggest Stories of the Year

City to Limit the Use of Criminal Background Checks in Screening Tenants

NYC Will Soon Have to Report Details of Street Homeless Sweeps

Opinion: How a Writing Program Helped Homeless New Yorkers

Two Bills Targeting Illegal Rent Increases Await Their Fate

Opinion: Universal Housing Vouchers are Key to Ending a National Crisis

Opinion: Fighting for Basement Apartment Tenants, 11 Years After Hurricane Sandy

New Bill Would Require NYC Landlords to Distribute Flood Evacuation Plans

NYC Mayor’s Latest Bid to Suspend Adult Shelter Rights Cools in Court

‘They Assigned Us Far Away’: As Shelter Limit Policy Expands, Some Families Are Already Too Familiar

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