While the foreclosure crisis has largely receded from today’s headlines, its impacts continue to reverberate for many families and their communities throughout New York City and nationwide.
For many White families, owning a home is a foothold on the path to long-term financial security. Because of redlining and other discriminatory practices, Black homeowners—and their children—have been excluded…
The man aiming to stop the city’s practice of reserving half of new affordable apartments for community residents says the policy creates divisions and limits mobility, doubling down on mistakes…
Even as borough presidents have been offering incremental changes, like the appointment of several teenage board members in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, several Council bills to reform term limits…
Ethnic concentration is not inherently harmful, but segregation can affect individual outcomes by constraining residential options and shaping the resources and services available in the neighborhoods in which different groups…
In the quarter-century since a three-day explosion of violence there, steady effort has produced a more cooperative relationship in the neighborhood. Worries about gentrification and displacement now worry both communities.
‘No neighbor on Staten Island would close the door of their ‘hood because of the different color of a new neighbor’s skin—those days have long since passed. But people will…
In the aftermath of high-profile killings of and by police officers, City Limits teamed with journalists from Colorlines, The Root, NewsOne and The Nation to discuss the impact and nuances…
