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CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: NYC Communities of Color Face Increased Eviction Filings, Displacement Risk, and Soaring Unaffordable Rents

Barika Williams | May 12, 2022

ANHD’s 2022 Housing Risk Chart highlights the compounding pressures, and risks, to affordable housing in dozens of neighborhoods. Indicators of speculation, gentrification, and displacement pressure are distributed throughout the city and show the necessity of tenant and homeowner counseling and support programs that defend affordability in every neighborhood.

Art at the Limits

City Watch: Council Arts Chair Urges NYC to Boost Budget in ‘Cultural Capital of the World’

David Brand | April 28, 2022

Brooklyn Councilmember Chi Ossé wants to commit 1 percent of New York City’s budget to the arts sector, which shed more than 208,000 jobs during the early months of the pandemic.

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Expanding Child Care Subsidies Would Lift 84K New Yorkers Out of Poverty, Report Finds

Jeanmarie Evelly | February 24, 2022

The findings, released by anti-poverty nonprofit Robin Hood and Columbia University’s Center on Poverty & Social Policy, examined the impact of the Early Learning Child Care Act, which would institute a payroll tax to fund child care subsidies for families with children under 3 years old.

NYC Council

The NYC Council Speaker Candidates on Their Legislative Priorities

Ese Olumhense | December 2, 2021

The speaker’s race—the Council’s own internal contest for electing its leadership—comes at a turbulent time, as the city attempts to rebound from the impact of the still-mutating COVID-19 virus. Each speaker sets the legislative agenda for the incoming Council and liaises between the lawmaking body and the administration.

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NYC’s New $98.7 Billion Budget Bolsters Rental Subsidy for Homeless Families

David Brand | July 1, 2021

New York City lawmakers on Wednesday adopted a new $98.7 billion budget that bolsters a key rental subsidy for homeless residents and restores some funding to social service providers following last year’s cuts.

Election 2021

Four Takeaways From NYC’s Democratic Comptroller Debate

Ese Olumhense | June 10, 2021

Although overall more tame than the most recent Democratic and Republican debates for mayor, Wednesday’s event was not without fireworks. Within the first few minutes, Caruso-Cabrera, who ran for Congress against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2020, attacked Council Speaker Corey Johnson for New York City’s swelling budget.

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Mayor’s Proposed Budget Misses ‘Once-in-a-Generation’ Opportunity to Tackle NYC Homelessness

David Brand | May 11, 2021

The chair of the council’s welfare committee says New York City is squandering a ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity to address its homelessness crisis, despite an executive budget that would boost Department of Social Services (DSS) funding by nearly $1.2 billion.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: Budget Can Offer a Down Payment Towards a Caring and Compassionate New Deal for NYC

Paulette Soltani | May 3, 2021

‘We can address poverty and public health concerns by providing people the housing, social services and care they actually need—and by divesting from policing and incarceration.’

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Opinion: Park Season is Almost Here. It’s Time for NYC to Reinvest in Open Space.

Adam Ganser and Peter Koo | March 12, 2021

‘Now is the time to realize a new era for parks, a vision for recovery with green open spaces at the center of our new urban landscape. The first step towards doing that is restoring the devastating budget cuts that have brought us to this inflection point.’