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Opinion: Closing Rikers is Environmental Justice in Action
1+ day, 1+ 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 took…...
Midtown Homeless Drop-in Center Closes, Despite Protest From Local Electeds
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (686+ words) After an attempt to save it failed in court, Manhattan elected officials are urging the Mamdani administration to reconsider its decision to close Mainchance, "the only homeless drop-in center located in East Midtown." Mainchance, a longtime drop-in center for the…...
NYC Housing Calendar, June 30-July 6
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (111+ words) City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events and public hearings, plus affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. Welcome to City Limits'NYC Housing Calendar, a weekly feature where we round up the latest housing and land…...
City To Expand Housing Vouchers in Budget: What You Need To Know
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (1250+ words) Mayor Mamdani and the City Council reached a deal late Monday to expand city-subsidized rental assistance as part of a larger budget agreement. Thousands of new households will be eligible for vouchers under the expansion, but the scope is far…...
Potential Loophole to NYC's Green Buildings Law Activates This Summer, Climate Advocates Warn
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (240+ words) Jeanmarie Evelly, City Limits' Executive Editor since 2021, joined the team in 2018, previously serving as youth program manager, deputy editor, and managing editor. A veteran metro reporter, she covered Astoria and Long Island City for DNAinfo. com and reported for Bronx…...
Opinion: New York Passed Historic Worker Protection Laws. Now We Have to Make Them Real.
3+ day, 15+ min ago (521+ words) Passing a law is only the beginning. A right you can't access is not really a right. A protection you don't know exists cannot protect you. And a violation that never gets reported is unlikely to be enforced." Last year,…...
Opinion: Rising Costs, Flat Rents, And a Crisis in New York's Housing Stock
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (487+ words) Thursday night, as expected, the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) voted to implement a 0 percent rent increase on rent stabilized apartments for next year. This reflects an important recognition of a fact heard loud and clear across tenant testimony at this…...
City Budget Deal On Hold Over City FHEPS Housing Voucher Expansion
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (682+ words) Speaker Julie Menin cancelled a budget handshake with Mayor Zohran Mamdani Friday after the two sides couldn't agree on funding an expansion of the city's housing voucher program, City FHEPS. Mayor Zohran Mamdani's first spending plan hit a bump in…...
Brooklyn Waterfront Towers Rezoning Advances, and What Else Happened This Week in Housing
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (684+ words) Councilmember Lincoln Restler opposed the Monitor Point project, which will build over 1, 000 apartments'on an MTA lot on the Greenpoint waterfront, until just before it came to a vote, citing an increase in the percentage of affordable units. A controversial project…...
PHOTOS: Scenes From The Rent Guidelines Board's Historic Vote
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (190+ words) The board took the unprecedented step of freezing rents on both one- and two-year lease renewals, fulfilling one of new Mayor Zohran Mamdani's key campaign promises. The Rent Guidelines Board on Thursday voted to freeze rents for tenants in the…...