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Myth: Rent-controlled tenants get an unbelievable deal. Reality: They can be hit with huge annual rent increases. That’s why advocates want the shrinking number of rent-controlled apartments added to Albany’s…

ByKen Thorbourne 134Comments

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Feb 2015

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Breakaway Dems Blame Funding Cuts for NYCHA’s Status as ‘Worst Landlord’

The Independent Democratic Conference is proposing to restore state support for public housing, fund backlogged capital projects and require market developers to fix NYCHA buildings.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Feb 2015

Housing and Homelessness

Some Resist De Blasio’s Housing Plans for Garden Sites

On a list of 100 parcels the administration has targeted for affordable housing development, community gardeners say 17 are “active, thriving” open spaces. Updated!

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Dec 2014

Opinion

Trust Fund Windfall Should Boost Supportive Housing

As the city nears a homeless shelter population of 60,000, it’s clear that a new generation of supportive housing is needed. And a federal trust fund is about to give…

ByRachel Fee 1Comment

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Dec 2014

Housing and Homelessness

Bronx BP Disses Anarchists and Gives a New View on Gentrification

Ruben Diaz, Jr. believes new affordable housing must serve people with relatively high incomes—not to attract that crowd, but to keep them from leaving.

ByJarrett Murphy 16Comments

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Dec 2014

Housing and Homelessness

Koch’s Housing Legacy, Through a de Blasio Lens

Like the former mayor, Bill de Blasio faces a housing crisis and a stingy federal government. But the current occupant of City Hall also confronts steeper expectations in a city…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Dec 2014

Uncategorized

A Troubled Building Eludes City Efforts to Force Fixes

An otherwise successful city program hasn’t been able to get one Bronx landlord to get a troubled building back into acceptable shape.

ByJordan Moss 2Comments

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Oct 2009

Uncategorized

A Neighborhood at the Center of the City and the Epicenter of Change

This is a look at some of what has happened in one ZIP code since 2001. What follows might not encompass the full story of the wider city. But it…

ByJarrett Murphy

ByNeil deMause 0Comments

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Oct 2009

Housing and Homelessness

‘We’ve seen a real intensification of problems’: Housing in Bushwick

Almost any discussion of housing in Bushwick tends to begin with July 13, 1977. That night, the blackout that hit New York City sparked widespread looting along Broadway

ByNeil deMause

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

NYC’s Endangered Species: A Rent-Controlled Apartment

Breakaway Dems Blame Funding Cuts for NYCHA’s Status as ‘Worst Landlord’

Some Resist De Blasio’s Housing Plans for Garden Sites

Trust Fund Windfall Should Boost Supportive Housing

Bronx BP Disses Anarchists and Gives a New View on Gentrification

Koch’s Housing Legacy, Through a de Blasio Lens

A Troubled Building Eludes City Efforts to Force Fixes

A Neighborhood at the Center of the City and the Epicenter of Change

‘We’ve seen a real intensification of problems’: Housing in Bushwick

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