City Limits’ Executive Editor Jeanmarie Evelly recently sat down with Vicki Been, former deputy mayor of housing under Mayor Bill de Blasio, for a conversation about the role of community engagement…
Vicki Been has warned, ‘[U]nless we have a much more specific proposal, those voters will have no idea what they are voting for, except that comprehensiveness, and planning, sound reasonable…
Testifying about a controversial rezoning proposal, the HPD commissioner rejected the idea that city-subsidized apartments would charge rents out of step with prevailing rents or average incomes in the Brooklyn…