Announcing in an election year a plan to create 90 new homeless shelters takes a certain amount of courage. But that doesn’t mean it will solve the problem.
East Harlem Neighborhood Plan participants said it was disappointingly vague, and others said it won’t be enough to counter rezoning displacement pressures.
While some East Harlem stakeholders are negotiating with the administration to improve a rezoning plan for East Harlem, others continue to resist any rezoning altogether.
‘The mayor’s housing initiatives address two related and important issues: the supply of affordable housing and the supply of market-rate housing that must be addressed as part of any housing…
Eight years after his last run for citywide office, there’s a different mayor and a different housing plan, but Avella’s critique is very much the same.
The city’s human rights commissioner writes: ‘We can and must do better to ensure that every New Yorker in need of housing can access it. It’s the law, but it’s…
City Limits and Gotham Gazette put aside their long and sometimes violent rivalry to discuss Mayor de Blasio’s relationship with the press, money in the 2017 campaign, and the upcoming…