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Which Neighborhood Facing Rezoning Faces Steepest Displacement Risks?
ANHDFrom ANHD's District Report for Inwood, showing some of the rent-stabilized buildings sold in the past month. On Thursday, the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development released a new...
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Should NYCHA Be Treated Like a Private Landlord?
Jim HendersonWyckoff Gardens in Gowanus, Brooklyn.  Reports of failed heating in numerous public housing developments during last week’s cold snap once again has advocates and elected leaders decrying...
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City Tackles Roll-Out of Right to Counsel in Housing Court
Abigail Savitch-LewJudge Marcia Sikowitz’s court room at Brooklyn Housing Court On a weekday morning, the benches of Judge Marcia Sikowitz’s small court room are packed to the brim and there is a line...
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New Head of Zoning Subcommittee Stresses Balanced Growth, Deep Affordability
John McCarten, NYC CouncilCouncilmember Francisco Moya chaired the Jerome Avenue rezoning hearing on February 7. Last week’s hearing on the Jerome Avenue rezoning in the western Bronx was facilitated...
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City Pushes Back Against Another Austere HUD Budget
Metro CentricLong Island City's Queensbridge Houses, the largest public housing complex in the country. The Trump administration’s FY 2019 budget once again includes unprecedented cuts to the nation’s...
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Report: Amid Housing Crisis, NY Must Rethink How Land is Owned
Abigail Savitch-LewArvernetta Henry of Picture the Homeless speaks at the release of Right to the City's new report at Picture the Homeless's headquarters on March 8, 2018. A new report released...
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Evaluating the Rent Crisis: 10 Facts from the Housing Vacancy Survey and...
Screenshot of City Council VideoHPDs Francesc Marti, Matt Murphy, and Elyzabeth Gaumer testify to the City Planning Committee on Housing and Buildings on the results of the 2017 Housing Vacancy Survey,...
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Federal Audit Demands Better Oversight of Program Key to NYCHA’s Survival Plan
NYCHANYCHA Chair Shola Olatoye and Congressman Gregory Meeks tour Ocean Bay Apartments, what would become the first NYCHA development to go through a RAD conversion, in September 2014. These days, it...
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Housing Advocates See Meager Gains, Some Threats in State Budget
Office of the GovernorGovernor Andrew Cuomo Congestion pricing. Education spending. Preventing the affluent from getting doubly taxed by Trump’s new tax plan.  There were a lot of competing priorities...
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With De Blasio Rezonings, City’s Scarce Industrial Land Becomes Scarcer
Adi TalwarRubén Vasquez (47) working on a car at Vasquez Muffler located on 1275 Jerome Ave in the Bronx.Ruben along with his brother Roberto and father Pilar have owned the business since 1993. To the...
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Call for Crackdown on ‘Rent Fraud’ in Rezoning Neighborhoods
Beyond My KenBuildings containing rent stabilized units on Broadway in Inwood, Manhattan. Benjamin Warren has faced his share of battles as the tenant association president at 1511 Sheridan Avenue in...
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Council Report Lays Out Agenda to Address NYC’s Segregation
An infographic from Desegregating NYC A new City Council report released Tuesday presents segregation as one of the city’s most significant problems and lays out a 12-point policy agenda to tackle...
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City Must Tackle Barriers to Career-Track Jobs in Construction, Advocates Say
Adi TalwarA hotel development site on Beach 21st Street between Cornaga Avenue and Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway, March 2018. The construction industry is booming. In March 2017, there were 151,000...
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MTA’s Bus Overhaul Could be Lifeline for Healthcare Workers, Who Face City’s...
The ambulance bay at Bellevue Hospital. When Danna Dennis worked as a home health aide on-and-off for 13 years, a typical daily commute to a client from her own home in Crown Heights was a grueling two...
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De Blasio’s Sixth Year in Office Could Feature Three Neighborhood Rezonings
Demetrius Freeman/Mayoral Photography Office.February 2015: Mayor de Blasio delivers his second state of the city address, in which he names the first neighborhoods targeted for rezonings. In 2015, the...
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10 NYCHA Senior Centers to Remain Open
Harry DiPrinzioInside the Frederick Douglass Senior Center. The City Council’s 2020 budget allocated $2.1 million in funding for 10 senior centers at New York City Housing Authority developments that...
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In Bushwick, (and the City) Families are the Majority of the Homeless
City Limits is in the midst of a month-long reporting project on Bushwick—a neighborhood at the city’s geographic center and in the middle of many of the stories shaping communities across the five...
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Pro-immigrant Groups Join BLM Protests at City Hall
Ramón Frisneda / Courtesy El DiarioOrganizations such as La Colmena joined in the demand to divert $1 billion from the NYPD to invest in communities. Read the original story in Spanish at El...
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A Statistical Snapshot of NYC’s Veterans
Most served in the Gulf War or thereafter, but some from WWII remain. Jarrett MurphyThe Bronx Victory Memorial at Mosholu Parkway and Marion Avenue by sculptor Jerome Connor. In the metropolis of New...
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2021 Primary Day Thread: NYC Votes for a New Mayor, City Council
The winner of the primary will go on to compete on the ballot in November’s general election—which in a city that leans as heavily Democratic as New York means most seats will be filled by whoever...
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