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It’s Time for New Yorkers to Talk about Housing at the Federal Level

In recent years, federal housing resources have stayed flat or even decreased, forcing state and city governments to do more with less. It’s time to change that.

ByJudi Kende 1Comment

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Will the Public Have a Say on a New 421-a Tax Break?

After failed talks between developers and labor unions, the real-estate tax break lapsed last month, threatening the mayor’s housing plan. Who will get to shape the next version of…

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ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Video: HPD Commish at Conference on Fighting Gentrification

The January 10 conference on gentrification sponsored by CASA, the Bronx Documentary Center and City Limits looked at many of the questions around the most weighted word in local policy…

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ByCatalina Hidalgo 0Comments

Opinion

Tenant: City Must Pass Stronger Ban on ‘Construction-as-Harassment’

“We desperately need protection for tenants before it gets to the point where the entire building needs to be renovated.”

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ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

Survey Finds 100,000 Seniors Waiting for Housing

The report, whose authors support one of Mayor de Blasio’s citywide zoning proposals, estimates the actual number is twice as high and finds that the average wait-time is seven years.

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ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

De Blasio Housing Plan Hung Up as Much on Distrust as on Details

Will neighborhoods accept the mayor’s housing and rezoning plans? Conversations about AMI, FAR, 421-a and other policy particulars will be important. But the mayor must also confront a larger distrust…

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De Blasio Housing Chief Rebuts Critics of East N.Y. Plan

Testifying about a controversial rezoning proposal, the HPD commissioner rejected the idea that city-subsidized apartments would charge rents out of step with prevailing rents or average incomes in the Brooklyn…

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ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Can the Bronx Develop Without Displacement?

This weekend, City Limits will moderate a panel discussion featuring a tenant leader, artists and the commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to try to answer that…

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