1+ hour, 1+ min ago   (596+ words) “New York City currently operates without a comprehensive plan to guide its growth and development—making it an outlier among major American cities, which routinely use such frameworks to balance citywide needs with local ones.” The Coalition for the Homeless…...

4+ hour, 8+ min ago   (1011+ words) “Neighborhood businesses may want these spaces, but too often landlords keep storefronts vacant rather than lower rents to a level small businesses can actually afford,” said Irene Tung, senior director of program and policy at the Action Lab. From 2020 to…...

1+ day, 9+ min ago   (331+ words) “New Yorkers deserve policy that responds to the urgency of diesel exhaust clouding neighborhoods and matches the bold action of similar successful policies across the country.” With more frequent air quality advisories due to wildfire smoke, diesel pollution only poses…...

6+ day, 21+ min ago   (225+ words) “I’ve seen how Brooklyn has grown in prosperity and desirability, and I’ve also seen that access to opportunity—the hallmark of a just and healthy society—has not kept pace.” Brooklyn is a borough of contradictions. It is a place…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1732+ words) Mayor Mamdani’s administration is backing a bid from a developer to preserve a portfolio of 887 rent-stabilized units in East Harlem, in a test of the mayor’s housing goals. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration is trying to influence the outcome of another…...

1+ week, 11+ min ago   (1284+ words) “To succeed — and achieve real, lasting changes in the city — Mayor Mamdani will need to doggedly pursue and challenge its wealthy stakeholders and the institutions they lead.” With Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first budget ratified, now is a good time to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (289+ words) The federal government passed its first housing bill in decades, finally taking up some of the solutions already tested in New York City. But don’t expect a big impact on affordability anytime soon. Congress is waking up to the fact…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (565+ words) New York State’s Department of Housing and Community Renewal last opened its Project-Based Section 8 waitlist in 2021. The lists, which will close again on July 24, offer very low-income New Yorkers a chance to secure affordable housing at specific properties with vacancies....

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (502+ words) “Effective aging policy must recognize that LGBTQ+ older adults often enter later life with different experiences, support systems, and challenges than many of their peers.” Nearly 1.8 million New Yorkers are over the age of 60, and that number will continue to…...

4+ week, 4+ hour ago   (354+ words) “Rikers is not only a criminal justice crisis. It is also an environmental failure that demands urgency. Closing it is not just about decarceration, it’s about repairing harm, restoring communities, and reimagining our city’s future resilience.” In 2019, New York City…...