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Tenant groups are already turning to other upstate cities that could pass good cause this summer—and that could pave the way for statewide legislation.
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Blocked at the state level, the campaign for “good cause eviction” is going local.
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Elected with real estate industry support, soon-to-be Mayor Adams faces a critical choice on New York’s landmark buildings emissions law.
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The Economic Development Corporation manages city land in the service of private profit. We need a new approach.
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Donovan has a progressive housing platform. But does it match his record?
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Only big, strong, mean grassroots campaigns can turn this around
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With a week left in the legislative session, New York lawmakers shelved a plan that aimed to revamp 25,000 NYCHA apartments.
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The major provisions of New York’s 2021 budget.
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“A year from now, this money will still be in the hands of Governor Cuomo, unused - and that’s exactly what he wants.”
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Governor Andrew Cuomo is pushing to impose stringent requirements, according to lawmakers and tenant advocates, that could delay and decrease aid.
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The legislature is pushing for a statewide rental assistance program that advocates say would be one the largest efforts to combat homelessness in recent memory.
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Advocates are pushing the legislature to extend and strengthen a moratorium on water shutoffs set to expire at the end of the month.
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“We sleep together like chickens”: Street homeless New Yorkers describe the struggle to endure the pandemic-era winter.
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New York’s looming foreclosure crisis could lead to massive corporate windfalls - or to large-scale social housing conversions. The choice is ours.
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New York must immediately reinstate a complete eviction moratorium, incoming DSA legislators argue, because you can’t stay at home if you’re forced out of it.
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Sources both inside and outside the legislature say Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is pushing back against the Senate Democrats’ proposal for a blanket moratorium.
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Many upstate cities don’t test old houses for lead poisoning until after children have already tested positive. A new bill would change that.
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Leaving Rikers Island, many former detainees can’t rent apartments or get jobs - because the city lost their ID.