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Opinion: Do We Really Support Children? NY’s Child Support System Says Otherwise
“While states like New York emphasize supporting vulnerable women and children as a priority, there has been too little focus on the need to improve the child support system to do so—especially within...
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NYC Housing Calendar, Aug. 31- Sept. 7
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. Adi TalwarJerome Avenue, which runs underneath the...
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Opinion: Current AMI Standards are Stripping Affordable Housing. Here’s How...
“Area Median Income plays an integral role in determining affordability. But communities across the five boroughs faced with potential affordable housing development routinely ask, ‘affordable for...
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NYC Looks to Tackle Extreme Heat via City Streets and Urban Forests
A federally funded pilot program and a study in parks both seek mitigation strategies for urban heat islands—areas that experience higher temperatures due to heat-absorbing infrastructure and lack of...
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City’s Public Advocate Decries ‘Uninhabitable’ NYCHA Conditions After...
A new report from NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams details conditions he witnessed in public housing after visiting six NYCHA complexes earlier this year and speaking to tenants about mold and...
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Opinion: Fixing the Bureaucratic Hurdles to Shelter Placement for Homeless Youth
“The dated, time-consuming bureaucratic system of meetings with social workers that lead to referrals, appointments and multiple screenings by various organizations must change. Homeless youth...
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Here’s How NYC Tenants Can Test Their Drinking Water
The discovery of arsenic in the water supply at NYCHA’s Jacob Riis Houses is a scary reminder of how little control most people have over their taps. While most of the drinking water in New York City...
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Hundreds of Families Forced from Domestic Violence Shelters into Strained DHS...
A six-month cap on stays and a lack of permanent housing options have combined to drive more than 1,550 families out of domestic violence shelters and directly into the Department of Homeless Services...
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A Year After Ida Floods, New York’s $27M Immigrant Relief Fund Doled Out Less...
The Ida relief fund for “excluded” New Yorkers was set up by the city and state for people who suffered damages from the historic flooding but didn’t qualify for aid administered by FEMA because of...
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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 7,426 eligible applicants...
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It’s Not Just Manhattan: Rents Are Still Rising Across NYC
Throughout the five boroughs and across the rental market, apartment prices continue to surge, according to an analysis of nearly 390,000 listings over the past three years that online marketplace...
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City Limits’ Youth Reporting Internship for Fall: Apply by Oct. 2
City Limits, a nonprofit news organization that’s been covering New York for 46 years, is now accepting applications from high school students for CLARIFY, its paid youth journalism training program...
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What Would NYC Look Like Without Right to Shelter? Bleak, Say the People...
The city’s ‘right to shelter’ provides a basic safety net not seen anywhere else in the country, allowing anyone who wants a shelter bed to get one (at least temporarily). But that right appears to be...
View ArticleVIDEO: Homeless Families Are Waiting Longer in NYC Shelters. Here Are Their...
Dirty bath water and a slew of apartment rejections test the faith of three single moms trying to get out of the city’s homeless shelter system. After 14 months, Johanna Garcia finally found an...
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The NYPD Now Decides What Homeless Encampments Get Swept
The new, formalized procedure essentially codifies what has become a de facto sweeps policy under Mayor Eric Adams, and replaces a 2020 directive that removed the NYPD from most street homeless...
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NYC Housing Calendar, Sept. 22-29
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. Adi TalwarUpper Manhattan. Welcome to City Limits’...
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More People Snagged Units in NYC Housing Lotteries Last Year, But Wait Times...
The city’s affordable housing lotteries are notoriously competitive, but new data shows some progress: in the most recent fiscal year that ended in June, 6,173 applicants were approved for a unit...
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Sewer Backups Nearly Doubled in NYC Last Year Due to Climate Change
The city’s aging infrastructure combined with more intense rainfall is resulting in more sewer backups, which took on average more than 15 hours to resolve during the last fiscal year that ended in...
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No es solo Manhattan: alquileres siguen subiendo en toda la ciudad de Nueva York
En los cinco condados y en general en el mercado de alquiler, los precios de los apartamentos siguen aumentando, según un análisis de casi 390.000 anuncios de los últimos tres años que el portal...
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Should New York High Schools Be Required to Teach Financial Literacy?
A bill that would require high school students across the state to take a personal finance course has been introduced a number of times in the Albany legislature dating back to 2009, but has yet to...
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