Plan to House Formerly-Incarcerated Inches Forward in the East Bronx
A plan to house seriously ill people leaving jail cleared one of its final procedural hurdles Wednesday night, at a heated public hearing on the Northeast Bronx Jacobi Medical Center campus where locals repeatedly testified that they feared for their safety.
Just Home would include 58 supportive apartments in a currently-vacant building on the Jacobi campus, with on-site services for Geriatric & Complex Care Service patients —either with completed sentences or awaiting court dates—most of whom have a diagnosis such as cancer, lung disease or diabetes. Another 24 studio apartments would not be set aside for that population, but would serve low-income tenants earning up to 60 percent of the area median income, or $59,340 for a single person.
Lawmakers Seek More Changes to NYC’s Street Vending Rules
Two years after the passage of Local Law 18—intended to overhaul street vending regulations and add hundreds of additional licenses to the market each year—councilmembers are weighing another package of changes, including one bill that would lift the cap on licenses altogether.
Legislators Urge Hochul to Nix Plan for Increased Fracked Gas to NYC
The Iroquois Pipeline Operating Company’s proposal is the latest fossil-fueled infrastructure project to earn the ire of local environmental groups, who say such investments are at odds with the goals of New York’s Climate Leadership and Protection Act.
Opinion: Universal Housing Vouchers are Key to Ending a National Crisis
“Fully funding Section 8 to establish a Universal Housing Voucher program will clear the way to reduce spending on everything from health care to food security, and set a course to end this housing crisis.”
‘No es el sitio, sino donde está ubicado’: familias inmigrantes navegan primeras semanas en refugio de Floyd Bennett
City Limits habló recientemente con varias familias sobre cómo era vivir en el refugio, el primer centro de acogida en el que la ciudad ha colocado a un gran número de familias inmigrantes con niños. Todas se quejaron del frío que hacía en las tiendas, de la lejanía y de la inaccesibilidad. Leer el artículo.
