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Advocates Nervous About State Housing Plan As Albany Session Nears End

Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie have to ink a memorandum of understanding to get a huge state affordable housing plan going.

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Podcasts

Max & Murphy: Cracking Down on Bad Buildings

Gotham Gazette and City Limits talk over the housing-policy news of the week, from a slowdown on the Jerome Avenue rezoning, to a ranking of neighborhoods by housing risk, to…

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ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

City Delays Next Step in Jerome Avenue Rezoning

A release of the draft scope for the latest area targeted by the de Blasio housing plan will be pushed from May to September to allow more community engagement.

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ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 6Comments

Staten Island Rezoning: Should Public Sites be Used for Housing, Open Space?

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.

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ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

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.

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ByJarrett Murphy 6Comments

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.

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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…

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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.

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