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The latest version of the Innovation Qns plan features 1,436 income-restricted apartments, around 45 percent of the total. “We have set a new precedent for building affordable housing on private…

ByDavid Brand 4Comments

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Sep 2022

Labor is Latest Sticking Point in Debate Over Bruckner Rezoning

The New York District Council of Carpenters issued a statement opposing the plan, saying they would not receive enough work on 349-unit project proposed for The Bronx. Their stance was…

ByDavid Brand 1Comment

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Aug 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness Politics Transportation

NYC Planning Commission Backs Bruckner Rezoning Opposed by Key Councilmember

The proposal has encountered resistance from would-be neighbors and local Councilmember Marjorie Velázquez, who’ve cited concerns about impact on infrastructure, parking and the area’s suburban feel. But one planning commissioner…

ByDavid Brand 7Comments

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Aug 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness Podcasts

City Watch: Planning Chief Dan Garodnick Talks Local Resistance to New Housing

“If everything…is just a question of ‘Does the local community support or not support it,’ the answer will almost, inevitably, always be ‘no,’ so it can’t just be that, it…

ByDavid Brand 4Comments

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Jul 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness Politics

NYC Council Approves ‘Resilient Edgemere’ Rezoning Plan

The land use plan, part of a broader initiative known as Resilient Edgemere, encompasses the area bound by Beach 35th Street and Beach 50th Street and will change zoning rules…

ByLiz Donovan

ByDavid Brand 3Comments

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Jun 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness

Queens Community Board Rejects 5-Block Rezoning Plan Over Affordability Concerns

The vote marks the first major milestone in the city land use process for the proposed $2 billion project, known as “Innovation QNS,” which would erect at least a dozen…

ByDavid Brand 4Comments

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Dec 2021

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness

Newly-Approved SoHo Rezoning Promises Affordable Homes. How Much Will they Really Cost?

While developers will seriously benefit from a chance to build market-rate apartments in one of the city’s most coveted zip codes, the de Blasio administration says the new construction will…

ByDavid Brand 2Comments

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Nov 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Gowanus Rezoning Shows How We Can Plan Together For a Fairer NYC

‘This plan did not start in a developer’s office, or at City Hall. It started through community planning, a series of public conversations that generated core principles for what inclusive,…

ByMichelle de la Uz

ByBrad Lander 8Comments

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Nov 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness

NYC Council Approves de Blasio’s Massive Gowanus Rezoning

“This is the biggest rezoning this administration has done over our eight years,” the mayor said ahead of Tuesday’s vote on the plan, which will upzone an 82-block swath of…

ByDavid Brand 4Comments

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Feb 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness News

De Blasio Housing Plan Created More Affordable Units, But Left Out City’s Most Vulnerable: Report

‘We did have a major emphasis on affordable housing, and a great deal of spending on it,’ during the de Blasio administration, says Samuel Stein, the report’s author and housing…

BySadef Ali Kully 7Comments

Won Greenlights 3,200-Unit Astoria Development, Paving Way for Council Approval

Labor is Latest Sticking Point in Debate Over Bruckner Rezoning

NYC Planning Commission Backs Bruckner Rezoning Opposed by Key Councilmember

City Watch: Planning Chief Dan Garodnick Talks Local Resistance to New Housing

NYC Council Approves ‘Resilient Edgemere’ Rezoning Plan

Queens Community Board Rejects 5-Block Rezoning Plan Over Affordability Concerns

Newly-Approved SoHo Rezoning Promises Affordable Homes. How Much Will they Really Cost?

Opinion: Gowanus Rezoning Shows How We Can Plan Together For a Fairer NYC

NYC Council Approves de Blasio’s Massive Gowanus Rezoning

De Blasio Housing Plan Created More Affordable Units, But Left Out City’s Most Vulnerable: Report

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