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It’s unclear how closely the city’s rezoning proposal will follow the most detailed community-based plan to emerge during the two-plus years of the de Blasio administration’s housing push.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Oct 2016

Health Opinion

Building Justice: Genetic Code, ZIP Code and Housing Code All Affect Health and Equality

Health outcomes–and things that depend on them like school performance–are shaped by housing quality. Housing quality is shaped by segregation. And segregation reflects policies that separated Americans by race.

ByAmanda Reddy

ByDavid Jacobs 2Comments

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Sep 2016

Housing and Homelessness

First Official Hearing on Jerome Avenue Rezoning Attracts List of Demands

Community groups pressed for deeper housing affordability and protections for workers. Other voices stressed different priorities.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

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Sep 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Some Question Bid to Combine Burial-Ground Memorial with Mixed-Use Development

The MTA is relocating its bus depot at East 126th Street so the city can create a memorial honoring the history of an African burial ground formerly located at the…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Sep 2016

Housing and Homelessness Investigations

Skeptics Say City’s Environmental Studies Understate Damage from Development

The limited scope, curious criteria and advisory nature of those studies has some community advocates worried the city will miss the problems Mayor de Blasio’s zoning changes could cause.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 6Comments

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Sep 2016

Opinion

Building Justice: How Segregation Enables Over-Policing of Communities of Color

A long history of de facto segregation in housing has enabled discriminatory and excessive policing of communities of color.

ByRuna Rajagopal 1Comment

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Sep 2016

Health Uncategorized

CityViews: Why We Are Campaigning for Healthier Bronx Housing

A new project aims to battle the environmental risks that many Bronxites face right in their own homes.

ByJeffrey Bohn

BySola Stamm 1Comment

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Sep 2016

Opinion

CityViews: Housing Programs Must Fight Segregation and Displacement with Different Weapons

In the debate over whether the city’s community preference exacerbates segregation, the author argues what’s really needed is a policy that can distinguish whether a neighborhood’s ethnic stamp is a…

ByPeter Marcuse 2Comments

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Sep 2016

Housing and Homelessness

City Agrees Displacement is a Worry, Disputes That Investment is the Cause

At a conference on displacement, the city and advocates split over whether public and private development is a cause of residential displacement, or a potential antidote to it.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Sep 2016

NYCHA Uncategorized