A top nutrition advocate says the pandemic exacerbated a significant hunger crisis in the city. And a year later, it is still exacerbating it—although the federal stimulus package will deliver help.| City Limits
"The next mayor will undoubtedly hear plenty from the business community about their priorities. But New York's homeless population deserves a voice in City Hall that's just as loud and just as urgent." The post Opinion: The Next Mayor’s Real Test? Ending New York’s Homelessness Crisis appeared first on City Limits.| City Limits
This year alone, thousands of low-income New Yorkers have had benefits stolen from their EBT cards, which allow them to buy food at certain stores. "It was very hard," one victim told City Limits after having her SNAP account drained three separate times. The post More Than $14 Million in SNAP Benefits Have Been Stolen From New Yorkers After Reimbursement Program’s End appeared first on City Limits.| City Limits
The legislation prohibits property owners or managers from using software that relies on private information to set rents, what lawmakers say amounts to price-fixing and artificially inflates the cost of housing. The post Governor Signs Bill Banning NY Landlords From Setting Rents via Algorithms appeared first on City Limits.| City Limits
“The findings provide some clues as to why a plurality of Latino voters supported Zohran Mamdani in the primary, and why they remain supportive as he heads into this last stretch of the campaign.” The post Opinion: What We Can Learn From the First Poll of Latino Voters in NYC’s Mayoral Race appeared first on City Limits.| City Limits
The new development team—the third since the megaproject was announced in 2003—has agreed to pay $12 million as they plan a new way forward. A key advocate deemed that “insufficient” given the 876 unbuilt affordable apartments, which were supposed to be constructed by May 31. The post New Development Team Promises Atlantic Yards Progress, But Housing Penalties Called ‘Insufficient’ appeared first on City Limits.| City Limits
A City Limits investigation revealed significant issues with the program, which helps some 100,000 New Yorkers afford housing at buildings across the city. Here’s how to know if you live in one of these apartments, and how to get help if you do. The post How To Get Help If You Live in an Apartment With Project-Based Rental Assistance appeared first on City Limits.| City Limits
"Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans are released from prison. Too many step back into society with nowhere to go." The post Opinion: What Happens When Reentry Starts with Housing? appeared first on City Limits.| City Limits
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. The post NYC Housing Calendar, Oct. 14-20 appeared first on City Limits.| City Limits
Ciudadanos estadounidenses —muchos de ellos hombres latinos— han sido detenidos en interacciones con ICE como comúnmente se conoce al Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de EE. UU. The post PODCAST: ¿Están atrapando a ciudadanos estadounidenses en operaciones de inmigración? appeared first on City Limits.| City Limits
New York counties thought they had months to prepare to implement SNAP work requirements. Now, they have weeks.| City Limits
Mayor Must Implement Council Laws Expanding Rental Vouchers, Appeals Court Rules ByJeanmarie Evelly3 hours ago Latest City Behind Schedule on Surveys of Migrants in Shelter 9 minutes ago Opinion: NYC’s Next Mayor Can Make a Clean Energy Grid a Reality 1 hour ago Mayor Must Implement Council Laws Expanding Rental Vouchers, Appeals Court Rules 3…| City Limits
New Yorkers speak over 800 languages, and more than 350,000 city households participate in HUD programs. But advocates say many local tenants won’t be greatly affected by the change, since local agencies that administer HUD’s programs have robust language options.| City Limits
"While politicians debate zoning and development, a little-discussed federal bureaucratic mechanism called the High Housing Cost Adjustment is systematically excluding working New Yorkers from programs designed to help them."| City Limits
After a judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing the city from immediately eliminating an incentive that pays landlords to hold vacant units for CityFHEPs voucher holders, the city decided to put the rule change through the official public review process.| City Limits
"This is a once-in-a-century opportunity to raise New York and the entire region to new heights of greatness by getting Penn Station right. We can and must do better."| City Limits
"The New York region’s most critical challenges, from economic inequality to the housing affordability crisis, all converge in the subterranean chaos of Penn Station."| City Limits
Each Friday, City Limits rounds up the latest news on housing, land use and homelessness. Catch up on what you might have missed here.| City Limits
“As the Trump administration continues to attack working families and immigrant communities, Mayor Adams’ veto is yet another example of him supporting Trump’s agenda over New Yorkers,” Council Spokeswoman Julia Agos said in a statement.| City Limits
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.| City Limits
On the heels of torrential flooding, City Limits caught up with Sunset Park community leader, Elizabeth Yeampierre, to talk about federal cuts to natural disaster protections and how communities can come together to survive extreme weather.| City Limits
As federal support dries up, the lines outside New York City pantries stretch down blocks and around corners. Advocates say the city needs to ramp up funding for its emergency food assistance program to help offset cuts from Washington, D.C.| City Limits
"I can't vote yes on a project in which the majority of the community doesn't know what's going on," Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, who sits on the task force that will vote on a final proposal for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal, said at a rally in early April. "I'm on the task force and I don't know what's going on."| City Limits
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Councilmember Joseph answered questions from CLARIFY student reporters about her priorities for the school system, DOE leadership, addressing the homelessness crisis facing over 100,000 students, school lunches, cell phone bans, and more.| City Limits
The NYPD said Thursday that the month-long gun detector pilot yielded 12 knives, 118 false positives, and zero firearms. City Limits’ CLARIFY youth journalists spoke to transit riders and advocates to get their thoughts on the use of weapon scanners in the system.| City Limits
Since the start of 2022, City Limits publishes regular tallies attempting to more accurately track the number of people staying in New York City’s homeless shelters, a population that spans five municipal systems run by four different agencies. You can read more about this project, and the difficulties in obtaining a complete count, here. We …| City Limits
In a new state court filing, the Adams administration is requesting authority to suspend the bulk of a 1981 decree that ensures shelter access for single adults.| City Limits
"We have already witnessed the harm that 30-day limits have inflicted on adult migrants without children," reads a letter signed by nearly 50 elected officials.| City Limits
While New York City must propose a balanced budget in January for the coming fiscal year, some say Adams’ approach to closing the gap is a blunt instrument, and not the only option.| City Limits
City Limits recently spoke with several families about what it was like to live at the Floyd Bennett Field shelter. All complained about the cold inside the tents, the remoteness, and inaccessibility.| City Limits
“The parties have agreed that for now there should not be a war of legal papers,” New York State Supreme Court Judge Gerald Lebovits said Thursday. “That for now, the solution is to try to settle the matter if possible and to solve any problem that may exist.”| City Limits
Some 36 families—among the tens of thousands of asylum seekers currently in the city’s care—were on the list to be moved from an emergency shelter in Long Island City on Friday.| City Limits
Each semester since the fall of 2014, City Limits has operated a paid training program for Bronx high-school and college-aged students who wish to learn the basics of investigative reporting. These are their stories.| City Limits
CLARIFY (The City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth) program is accepting applications from New York City high school students for its summer 2024 and fall 2024 sessions.| City Limits
The Affordable Connectivity Program, which offered up to $30 a month towards broadband service for low-income and other eligible households, ran out of funds early this summer.| City Limits
There are several key differences between PACT and Hope VI, the now-defunct federal program that facilitated demolition and displacement in Brooklyn decades ago. But, despite contemporary safeguards, advocates say they’ll be keeping a close eye as plans to raze and rebuild the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses move forward.| City Limits
A fight over whether to demolish and rebuild apartments at the Chelsea-Elliott and Fulton Houses in lower Manhattan echoes a larger debate over how NYCHA should raise funds for its deteriorating housing stock, and how much of a say tenants will have in those plans.| City Limits
For the third time, NYCHA residents are voting on which funding model they believe best meets the needs for their complex. Residents at Coney Island Houses and Unity Towers can cast their votes starting Wednesday through Aug. 15.| City Limits
While dozens of eligible voters are currently dispersed around the city, Bronx River Addition’s Building 11 remains a tight-knit community home to many Spanish speakers. Two ballot options promise expedited repairs, but could also require them to temporarily relocate.| City Limits
The Physical Needs Assessment has raised doubts among tenants, who question if it is an accurate reflection of NYCHA’s needs—especially with figures such as $485,000 in repairs for the average unit.| City Limits
Since January 2022, City Limits has been compiling and publishing daily and monthly data on the number of people staying in New York City’s homeless shelter system, using the most complete figures available.| City Limits
“The reality is that we have a housing crisis, but the South Bronx cannot bear the burden of affordable housing on its own,” said Councilmember Rafael Salamanca, whose district produced the greatest number of affordable units last year and over the past decade. “We need all 51 council districts to do their fair share.”| City Limits
The city's plan to rezone an approximately 46-block stretch adjacent to the rail line around the future Morris Park and Parkchester/Van Nest train stations is about to turn a corner. The project aims to create thousands of job opportunities and an estimated 6,000 additional homes in the rezoning area.| City Limits
The Coalition for the Homeless reached a settlement with the City of New York Friday, adding new emergency terms to the 1981 decree that paved the way for the city’s unique right to a shelter bed.| City Limits
While the Adams administration has been issuing shelter deadlines to adult immigrants for months—what officials say is an effort to manage more than 168,500 new arrivals since 2022, 69,000 of whom remain in the city’s care—Tuesday’s evictions were the first to apply to families with children.| City Limits
The initial registration period for eligible Venezuelans who do not have TPS opened on Oct. 3 and will run through April 2, 2025.| City Limits
In the coming days, the city will start notifying asylum seekers of the new time limit, starting with single adults who’ve been in the city’s care “for a significant amount of time,” Adams said.| City Limits
Hundreds of tenants and rental brokers descended on City Hall Wednesday to debate legislation that would stop landlords from passing broker fees onto tenants.| City Limits
A new state-wide report on the impacts of climate change shows New York City will be impacted on all fronts: The Big Apple is getting 6 to 10 degrees warmer, and will see more precipitation and tidal floods in the coming decades. “We have to understand that this stuff is going to happen, it's already happening,” one state official said.| City Limits
While migrants can receive mail at the city's shelters, many have struggled to track down important correspondence, according to legal service providers and advocates—especially after the city restricted the length of stays for both adults and families with children.| City Limits
