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“For decades, the government agencies that oversee and fund the supportive housing systems have disregarded the voices and needs of applicants and tenants, and instead prioritized the needs of providers,…

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Housing and Homelessness News

City Limits’ Most-Read Housing Stories in 2022

It’s been an eventful year in New York City housing. Mayor Eric Adams launched a new plan for housing production and a controversial approach to street homelessness. At the same…

ByJeanmarie Evelly

ByMariam Hydara

ByDavid Brand 1Comment

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Dec 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness Justice

Should NYC Landlords Be Allowed to Consider a Tenant’s Criminal Record?

The New York City Council held a hearing Thursday to discuss the Fair Chance for Housing Act, which would make it illegal for landlords and realtors to factor in criminal…

ByMariam Hydara

ByDavid Brand

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Dec 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Land Use and Development Politics

NYC Needs Thousands of Apartments for the Formerly Incarcerated. 50 Face Furious Opposition

“Just Home”—a NYC Health + Hospitals (HHC) plan to convert an empty staff residence on the Jacobi Hospital campus into supportive housing for a few dozen people with serious medical…

ByDavid Brand 6Comments

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Nov 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness Justice Transportation

Adams Orders Forced Removals of People Deemed Mentally Ill, While Housing Remains Out of Reach

The mayor issued a directive to the NYPD, emergency medical services and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene empowering them to “involuntarily transport” people experiencing acute mental health crises…

ByDavid Brand 0Comments

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Nov 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Politics

Rise of the ‘SHIMBY’? New Report Outlines Steps to Social Housing

A new report describes the path to social housing in New York through 20 policy proposals, from overhauling the property tax code and abolishing the city’s tax lien sale to…

ByDavid Brand 1Comment

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Sep 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion Politics

Opinion: ‘Just Home’ Project Planned for The Bronx Deserves Community Support

“Fear aside, will our city recognize health care as a human right? If these sick people can’t be placed in a hospital campus, then where else can they go?”

ByRoxanne Delgado 1Comment

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Sep 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth

City’s Supportive Housing Remains Out of Reach for Most Applicants, Data Shows

During the most recent fiscal year, just 16 percent of New Yorkers approved by the city for supportive housing were actually placed with an apartment. More than half of the…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Aug 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness Politics

In Bronx Senate Race, Democrats Unite in Opposition to New Affordable Housing

The three Democratic candidates in the 34th Senate District find common ground in opposing a proposed supportive housing site for critically ill former Rikers detainees on the campus of Jacobi…

ByDavid Brand 3Comments

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Aug 2022

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Use NYC’s Vacant Lots and Buildings to Help Solve the Housing Crisis

“As of 2016, the city had over 1,131 (more or less) parcels of property at its disposal. Instead of using executive orders on projects that benefit a small group of people,…

ByJohn Thompson Jr.5Comments

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