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‘Predictable Emergencies’: NYC Flash Floods Spur Renewed Calls for Basement Legalization
Friday's flooding is a reminder of the risks climate change poses to tenants in the estimated tens of thousands of unregulated basement or cellar apartments across the city. And while it’s been more than two years since Ida killed 13 residents, tenants who live in New York’s subgrade homes have yet to see legalization or significant safety improvements, advocates charged.
“I haven’t slept at all, I panic every time it pours hard rain,” one basement tenant in Brooklyn told City Limits after water began to breach her apartment early Friday morning.
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City Officials Grilled on Staffing Needs Amid Public Benefit Processing ‘Crisis’
The interrogation from councilmembers came on the heels of new data showing public benefit processing delays the likes of which New Yorkers haven’t seen in at least a decade.
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NYC Has Quietly Placed Immigrant Families with Children in Hotels Under 28-Day Stays
For the last three months, in instances when no other options are available, the city has provided some families with kids seeking asylum with vouchers for “no-cost hotel stays” for 28 days, after which they need to return to the city’s Arrival Center to seek another placement.
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NYCHA Faces Scrutiny For $78.3B Repairs Price Tag
This year’s Physical Needs Assessment showed a 73 percent leap from the last report in 2017—a staggering change NYCHA has attributed in part to inflation and construction costs.
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Opinion: To Keep Schools Open, NYC Needs Climate-Resilient Buildings
“After Hurricane Sandy, my school closed for a week, while whole school student bodies had to be relocated across the city. More recently, my school’s basement and entire first floor flooded the week before school started due to heavy rains.”
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En el 2022, la proporción de latinos que hablaban español en casa se ubicó por debajo de la proporción de latinos que hablaban inglés. Justamente durante el 2022, el Pew Research Center encuestó a los hispanos sobre sus perspectivas y experiencias con el idioma español. Leer el artículo. ([link removed]) [link removed]
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