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“For many asylum seekers like me, the United States is a beacon of hope, providing refuge and safety from the violence many of us experience at home. Yet the sense…

ByPriscilla Hernandez*0Comments

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Mar 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness Politics

Mapping Tenant Vulnerability: New Data Tool Compares NY’s Legislative Districts

A new data tool by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University breaks down a trove of housing-related data for each of the state’s Senate and Assembly…

ByEmma Whitford 0Comments

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Mar 2023

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

State Lawmakers Pitch Budget Funds to Help NYCHA with Mounting Rent Debt

In a budget resolution unveiled last week, the State Senate earmarked $389 million for public housing and Section 8 tenants statewide who applied for, but were left out from, New York’s …

ByTatyana Turner 0Comments

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Mar 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness Politics

In New York’s Fight to Legalize Basement Apartments, What About Cellars?

While Gov. Kathy Hochul included a pathway to basement legalization in her February budget proposal, the word ‘cellar’ is absent from her plan. The two terms may be indistinguishable to…

ByEmma Whitford 7Comments

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Apr 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness Politics

New York’s $220 Billion Budget Light on Solutions to Homelessness, Critics Say

“It’s pretty dreadful,” one housing advocate said. “The governor decided to-go drinks and a stadium in Buffalo were more important than housing the homeless and marginalized New Yorkers.”

ByDavid Brand 0Comments

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Mar 2022

Government Justice

$7 Million Settlement Marks Latest in New York’s Home Health Care Crackdown

The settlement comes as legislators and organizers in New York rally for proposed legislation called Fair Pay for Home Care, which would increase the minimum wage for home healthcare workers…

ByLiz Donovan 7Comments

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Mar 2022

Education Government Justice Opinion Politics

Opinion: To Increase Public Safety, New York Must Invest in Families

“We must reject efforts to roll back Raise the Age and stop scapegoating children and youth for the decades-long failure of government to invest equitably in them and their communities…

ByJennifer March 1Comment

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Mar 2022

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness News

NY Lawmakers Propose $250M to Launch Section 8-Style Rent Subsidy

The State Senate and Assembly included a quarter-billion dollars to fund the Housing Access Voucher Program (HAVP), which would create a new rent voucher for New Yorkers experiencing or at-risk…

ByDavid Brand 13Comments

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Feb 2022

Economy Education Government

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

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…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 3Comments

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Feb 2022

Government Immigration Justice Opinion

Opinion: NY Can Address Immigration Court Backlog by Funding Legal Services

“There is currently no right to public defense in immigration proceedings, but having a lawyer to navigate this notoriously complicated system advances the cause of justice.”

ByCatalina Cruz

ByBrad Hoylman 0Comments

Opinion: Helping Asylum Seekers in New York’s Immigration Courts

Mapping Tenant Vulnerability: New Data Tool Compares NY’s Legislative Districts

State Lawmakers Pitch Budget Funds to Help NYCHA with Mounting Rent Debt

In New York’s Fight to Legalize Basement Apartments, What About Cellars?

New York’s $220 Billion Budget Light on Solutions to Homelessness, Critics Say

$7 Million Settlement Marks Latest in New York’s Home Health Care Crackdown

Opinion: To Increase Public Safety, New York Must Invest in Families

NY Lawmakers Propose $250M to Launch Section 8-Style Rent Subsidy

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

Opinion: NY Can Address Immigration Court Backlog by Funding Legal Services

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