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In areas affected by the looming Bay Street rezoning, advocates are pushing the city to include more housing in some areas, and more open space in others.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 6Comments

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May 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Aging Infrastructure an Issue in Bid to Reshape Inwood

Unlike other neighborhoods slated for a rezoning, the city’s Economic Development Corporation is taking the lead in planning a new future for this chunk on northern Manhattan.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

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May 2016

Housing and Homelessness

City Has a Tool to Police Section 8 Discrimination

The Commission on Human Rights has enforced a law banning discrimination against Section 8 renters. New reporting indicates more of that enforcement is needed.

ByJarrett Murphy 6Comments

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May 2016

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Podcasts

Max & Murphy: Council’s NYCHA Point-Person Says De Blasio Could do More

Ritchie Torres credits the mayor for taking unprecedented steps to shore up the fiscally challenged public housing authority. But he feels that NYCHA’s untapped political power must be harnessed to…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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May 2016

In Depth

UrbaNerd: Some Numbers on Abandoned Property and Affordable Housing

Some data on the unglamorous, ongoing effort the city makes (and has made for three decades) to preserve housing options for people of limited means.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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May 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Tough Fight to Keep Mitchell-Lamas from Going Private

City and state officials say they are doing all they can to preserve a critical affordable housing resource. Some tenants think more action is possible, like requiring coop boards to…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 4Comments

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May 2016

Investigations

Housing Coverage, Hospital Investigation Win Honors

City Limits’ 2015 reporting has nabbed two honors from the New York Press Club.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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May 2016

Housing and Homelessness

City Slow to Embrace Land Trusts as Housing Tool

The de Blasio administration has shown openness to community land trusts but organizations, not the city, are taking the boldest steps toward trying what backers say offers the best chance…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

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May 2016

Housing and Homelessness

The Day Activists Invaded Donald Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Palace

Thirty-one years ago today, demonstrators furious over generous subsidies to luxury developers descended on a gleaming poster-child for corporate welfare—the flagship property of the man now poised to be the…