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A federal court is considering whether federal law prohibits the city’s policy of setting aside 50 percent of apartments in new, subsidized buildings for local residents.

ByJarrett Murphy 5Comments

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Apr 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Can NYC’s Landlords Afford Another Rent Freeze?

When the Rent Guidelines Board approved a 0 percent hike last year, landlords warned of impending disaster.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 96Comments

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Apr 2016

Uncategorized

Sunset Park Walking Tour: Diverse, Complex, Contested

Join veteran Brooklyn tour guide (and City Limits contributor) Norman Oder, along with neighborhood activist Maria Roca, on a wide-ranging tour of the Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn.

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

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Apr 2016

Housing and Homelessness

City’s Empty Spaces: What is the Housing Potential?

The city comptroller identified more than 1,000 sites the city owns that could be used to build affordable housing. We visited several of them to see if the potential was…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Apr 2016

Housing and Homelessness

East New York Deal Looks Likely to Disappoint Many Advocates

Details were still fluid but it appeared the final deal fell well short of what advocates had been hoping for.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

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Apr 2016

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Advocates Like, and Critique, de Blasio’s Homeless Plan

Organizations that work on homelessness generally applauded the mayor’s plan and the process behind it. But they are pushing the administration to make deeper policy changes in three key areas.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 3Comments

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Apr 2016

Housing and Homelessness

NY Primary Countdown: Democrats Talk (a Little) About Housing Policy

A look at how housing policy has been treated in the 2016 race finds attention—and some detail—on the Democratic side and little appetite for the topic among the GOP hopefuls.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Apr 2016

Uncategorized

Reporters and Gentrification: Enablers? Chroniclers? Resisters?

Brooklyn Deep’s Third Rail podcast invited City Limits to discuss the role of hyperlocal media in covering development, displacement and ‘the G word.’

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

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Apr 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Brooklyn Councilmember is Man in the Middle of East New York Talks

Rafael Espinal is putting pressure on the de Blasio administration to tweak the details of the proposed rezoning, as groups skeptical about the city’s plans put pressure on him.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 4Comments

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Apr 2016

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Podcasts