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“Infills can create new housing while also helping provide funding or upgrades to preserve existing buildings, all helping to reinvigorate a neighborhood.”

ByKathryn Haslanger 3Comments

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Apr 2023

Economy Housing and Homelessness In Depth Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Bringing Affordable Housing to NY’s Market More Quickly, and Less Expensively

“A detriment to building sufficient affordable housing is the long and laborious path projects must go through to reach completion.”

ByMichael Lappin 1Comment

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Oct 2019

NYCHA Opinion

Opinion: NYCHA’s NextGen Threatens More Harm than Hope

‘NextGen is the continuation of the opening up of investment opportunities for already-wealthy private actors and entities. History tells us this usually comes at a high cost for residents and…

ByKristen Hackett 5Comments

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May 2019

Land Use and Development NYCHA Podcasts

Max & Murphy: Manhattan Beep Challenges Multiple Mayoral Development Moves

From the banks of the East River to a NYCHA development uptown, Gale Brewer has resisted efforts by Bill de Blasio to undertake major development projects without going through ULURP.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Oct 2018

NYCHA Opinion

CityViews: NYCHA Must Fix Our Homes Before Developing New Ones

‘There needs to be a moratorium on any new development schemes until NYCHA housing complies with all New York City building codes.’

ByMonica Underwood

ByMichael Higgins

ByKaren Blondel

ByBeverly Corbin 2Comments

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Jun 2018

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Industry, NYCHA and Flooding are Areas of Concern as Gowanus Moves Toward Rezoning

A long, multifaceted public-engagement process produced a planning framework with many positives and few surprises for neighborhood advocates. But two areas of concern remain.

BySadef Ali Kully 1Comment

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Oct 2017

Government Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Ritchie Torres Takes National Image, Support for NYCHA Development into Speaker Bid

Much of Torres’ legislative record fits easily with his profile as a millennial progressive. But on public housing, his bread-and-butter issue, Torres has departed from some progressive allies in supporting…

ByWilla Rubin

ByMax Zahn 1Comment

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Apr 2017

Housing and Homelessness News NYCHA

Next NYCHA Infill Site To Add More Units to Two Bridges Neighborhood

The Lower East Side waterfront, already grappling with five proposed luxury towers, will now also get a mixed-income development on public housing land.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

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Nov 2016

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Video

Video: NYCHA Development Plans and Community Concerns

City Limits’ Jarrett Murphy joined Gary Pierre-Pierre on CUNY TV’s Independent Sources to discuss the NYCHA NextGen plan and some of the community concerns it has generated.

ByCity Limits 0Comments

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Jun 2016

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Intense NYCHA Engagement Effort Could Soften Infill Opposition

The authority has held 40 meetings with residents at two developments targeted for the construction of new housing, talking out principles to guide each project. There are signs the effort…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

Opinion: City of Yes Will Help Turn Underutilized Space into Life-Saving Housing