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Within a few months this fall, the city announced two separate plans to redevelop the abandoned Greenpoint Hospital site, and across the street, a parking lot owned by the city’s…

ByGwynne Hogan 2Comments

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Jan 2018

Housing and Homelessness In Depth

The NYC Community Land Trust Movement Wants to Go Big

Large and small organizations have envisioned ways that, with the right resources and city policies, the city’s nascent community land trusts could come to encompass thousands of apartments.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 3Comments

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Dec 2017

NYCHA Uncategorized

From Jails to Jamaica Bay: 18 New York City Stories to Watch in 2018

The election? Well, duh! The 2020 Census? Wait, huh?

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Dec 2017

Government Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Where the Council Speaker Candidates Stand on Housing

Who is affordable housing for? Should NYCHA’s chairwoman resign? There are actual differences between the hopefuls’ experience and main priorities when it comes to housing policy.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

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Nov 2017

Housing and Homelessness

New Regional Plan Asks: Should We Shut Down the Subway at Night?

Cutting off subway service during the hours when there are few riders—and when lots of repair work could be done—is one of the smaller ideas in the Regional Plan Association’s…

ByJarrett Murphy 11Comments

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Nov 2017

Housing and Homelessness

Rising Rent Burdens and Falling Apartment Numbers Mark the City’s Rent-Control System

Housing advocates are pressing Gov. Cuomo to intervene in this year’s process and freeze rents.

ByJarrett Murphy

ByOndine Jevremov 7Comments

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Nov 2017

Housing and Homelessness

Most Impoverished Rezoning Neighborhood Speaks Out At Hearing

The City Planning Commission listened to passionate testimony regarding the proposed Jerome Avenue rezoning.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

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Nov 2017

Housing and Homelessness

A New Housing Resource for the Region, Right in the Parking Lot

The Regional Plan Association says there’s room to build housing for 660,000 people on the parking lots of dozens of commuter rail stations from central Connecticut to the middle of…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Nov 2017

Government Housing and Homelessness

‘Crazy Green Party Dude’ Wages Grassroots Fight in Brooklyn Council Race

Jabari Brisport is one of the few Green candidates and the only Socialist on any New York City ballot this year. But in a district where private, luxury development is…

ByEmma Whitford 6Comments

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Nov 2017

Government