Housing and Homelessness

Opinion: Living The Mitchell-Lama Dream

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09/21/2017

Public housing was once the egalitarian dream of urban planners in post-war New York City, uniting people from all walks of life in a social experiment that prospered. Today, these developments are under attack from systematic neglect and deliberate...

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New Data Shows Retirees Are on the Move, But Young Folks Are a Different Story

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09/20/2017

Americans aren’t moving. Or, rather, millennials aren’t.

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Opinion: The Risky Consequences Of Inclusionary Housing At Brooklyn’s Pfizer Site

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09/19/2017

The power to zone is a key mechanism New York City has to leverage private financial resources when building much needed affordable housing.

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Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books

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09/19/2017

For all of Sunset Park’s celebrated taquerias, dim sum parlors and picturesque piers, the most popular destination in that neighborhood might just be the local branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Despite its squat concrete frame and fluorescent...

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Mayor's Affordable Housing Not Helping People Who Need it Most, Study Says

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09/18/2017

With the city’s homelessness crisis unabated, housing advocates are asking why most of the units created or preserved under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s affordable housing plan fail to target the city’s low-income New Yorkers who need help the most.

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Ford Teams up with Stephen Ross to Invest $27.5M in Platform Projects throughout Detroit

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09/15/2017

Billionaire developer Stephen Ross and the New York-based Ford Foundation are teaming up with The Platform LLC to make a $27.5 million investment in bringing housing to Detroit neighborhoods.

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Standing Up For Housing Equality

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09/13/2017

Members and supporters of the New York Communities for Change (NYCC) held a three-day tent city sit-in and demonstration march to call attention to the color divide on Long Island, specifically in Garden City.

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New York Developer Raises Fund for Affordable Housing

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09/12/2017

New York developer Jonathan F.P. Rose, founder and president of Jonathan Rose Cos. has raised a $233 million real-estate fund dedicated to affordable housing, the company’s largest such fund in a sector drawing more attention from investors.

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City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year

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09/11/2017

The city will bus a record number of homeless students from shelters to public schools this year in an effort to get more kids to class.

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NYN Media Homeless Shelter Tracker

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09/11/2017

In response to historic criticism that shelters had opened overnight with little community oversight, the de Blasio administration has pledged to increase transparency into the process.

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