"CityFHEPS vouchers would give youth a real pathway out of homelessness, rather than forcing them into the adult homeless shelter system." The post Opinion: Homeless Youth Are Being Excluded, Yet Again. We Hoped for Better From Mayor Mamdani. appeared first on City Limits.

City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events and public hearings, plus affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. The post NYC Housing Calendar, June 15-22 appeared first on City Limits.

Both inside and outside the Rent Guidelines Board's public hearing Thursday, tenants and landlords shouted, booed, and jeered at each other in almost equal measure over future rents for regulated apartments. The post Tenants, Landlords and Zombies Face Off Over a Rent Freeze, And What Else Happened This Week in Housing appeared first on City Limits.

The core problem with New York's housing affordability is not, at its heart, a rent regulation problem. It is a divergence problem. Rents for existing affordable units have become increasingly affordable over time, while rents for new affordable units have become increasingly unaffordable. The post Opinion: New York’s Affordable Housing Divide appeared ...

No organizamos un desfile solo por celebrar. Desde el principio, ha sido una iniciativa impulsada por la comunidad para garantizar nuestra seguridad en un barrio con un largo historial de excesivo control policial sobre los puertorriqueos, dijo Dennis Flores, fundador de El Grito, del desfile y festival puertorriqueo de Sunset Park que vuelve este fin de ...

We dont do a parade just to be festive. From the beginning this has been a community-led effort to keep ourselves safe in a neighborhood with a long history of over-policing Puerto Ricans, said Dennis Flores, founder of El Gritos Sunset Park Puerto Rican Parade and Festival, which returns this weekend. The post ‘We Refuse to be Displaced’: Celebrating ...

Inspections by the citys Department of Housing Preservation and Development are one of the only tools NYCHA tenants have for securing overdue repairs. But tenants and legal advocates say scheduling snafus make those fights even harder. The post For NYCHA Tenants Fighting for Repairs in Court, One Missed Phone Call Can Mean Months-Long Delays appeared first ...

"The impact of this is already visible across New Yorks shelter system. Many families are working, trying to secure housing, and ready to move forward. But they cannot afford to exit." The post Opinion: More Than Half of New Yorkers Can’t Afford New York. That Should Alarm All of Us. appeared first on City Limits.

A post-pandemic boom in e-commerce correlated with statewide health inequities that are hitting low-income communities the hardest, the report found. The reason why a lot of these warehouses are placed where they are is based on histories of redlining, its author told City Limits. The post Delivery Warehouse Boom is Impacting NYC’s Low-Income ...

Los defensores y un concejal de Brooklyn piden a la ciudad que elabore una serie de directrices sobre cmo deben responder las escuelas ante la presencia de agentes de ICE en las inmediaciones, y que establezca un sistema para alertar a las familias y a los estudiantes. The post ‘La gente sigue muy inquieta’: activistas piden a la alcalda protocolos ...

The Mamdani administration claimed a partial victory when it got the new owner of 5,000 rent stabilized units to promise repairs and to clear housing code violations. It looks like those efforts might be falling short, though tenants say the citys support helped them negotiate rent debt forgiveness. The post Pinnacle Tenants Bargain with New Owner Over ...

Homeless New Yorkers and advocates say the legislationwhich now heads to Gov. Kathy Hochul for final approvalwill ensure people living in shelters have reliable internet service as they search for work, housing and other resources. The post State Lawmakers Pass Bill Requiring Every Homeless Shelter in New York to Have Wi-Fi appeared first on City Limits.

Advocates and a Brooklyn City Council member are asking the city to create a set of guidelines for how schools should respond to the presence of ICE agents nearby, and to set up a system for alerting families and students. The post ‘People Are Still Very Unnerved’: Advocates Ask City to Establish Protocols for ICE Sightings Near Schools appeared first ...

Una investigacin del peridico Newsday revela que en Long Island, en Nueva York, agentes del Servicio de Inmigracin y Control de Aduanas de EE. UU. (ICE por sus siglas en ingls) han arrestado y detenido al menos a una docena de personas con Estatus de Inmigrante Juvenil provenientes de Centroamrica. The post PODCAST: Qu est pasando con los jvenes con estatus ...

"Families of young children with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities...are being turned away from program after program. Not because providers don't want to serve them, but because the system makes it financially unsustainable to do so." The post Opinion: Universal Child Care Isn’t Universal If It Excludes Children with Disabilities ...