The five questions this year range from what to do with small, publicly-owned properties to how the city should plan for its financial future via the rainy day fund.
“New York City, especially, has a lot of laws that regulate language access,” Olivia Nuñez, NYC Campaign Finance Board community engagement director, explained. “All New Yorkers have the right to…
“Proposals 2 through 5 are common-sense, targeted reforms that will help us build the smaller, more affordable housing New Yorkers need—across every borough.”
Want to know more about the mayoral hopefuls on Tuesday’s ballot? Read about their plans for housing, homelessness, NYCHA, climate, and immigrant communities. Polls are open from 6 a.m. to…
“Homelessness is such a major issue in New York,” said Patrick Boyle, senior director at Enterprise Community Partners, one of the advocacy groups encouraging shelter residents and domestic violence survivors…
At the Brooklyn complex, 83 tenants voted to join the Public Housing Preservation Trust and another 83 opted to convert to private management under the PACT initiative. A final recount…
By 6 p.m., nearly 2.2 million New Yorkers and counting had turned up to vote in Tuesday’s election—many saying they were motivated by the chance for change and hopes for…
Dozens of other states have embraced some version of an Equal Rights Amendment in their constitutions. New Yorkers will get a chance to vote in November on whether to expand…
“Ballot measures are an opportunity for voters to directly weigh in on policies that affect their day-to-day lives and the future of our state. When incomprehensible ballot language forces voters…
Voter education is one hurdle. But a bigger one, advocates say, is the cumbersome voting process itself for people behind bars. “There are impediments and obstacles that create real and…