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Dear City Limits Friends,

Please enjoy this update featuring highlights from our second quarter of 2024. We have exciting news to report, and thank you as always for being a vital part of the City Limits community.

We are thrilled to announce that Gary Clemons has joined City Limits as our new Executive Director! Gary brings a wealth of experience in nonprofit leadership and a deep commitment to driving positive change in marginalized communities. You can read more about his vision for City Limits in this recent announcement. Please join us in welcoming Gary to City Limits!

City Limits has long served as a newsroom that helps train emerging journalists. This summer we’re thrilled to host interns from the CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and Columbia Journalism School. Anastasia Tomkin, a current CUNY Newmark student, is reporting on issues related to poverty and the social safety net—like her piece on how the mayor’s plan to expand public restrooms impacts New Yorkers experiencing homelessness.

Subeksha Poudel joined City Limits at the start of July as a reporting fellow with the Columbia Journalism School - Institute for Nonprofit News internship program. Poudel will be covering aging in New York City, and how city and state policies impact older adult New Yorkers.

In case you missed one, here are the 10 most read articles this past quarter:

NYCHA to Reopen Section 8 Waitlist After 15 Years. Here’s How to Apply

Demand for Section 8 Waitlist More than Double Available Slots—And Counting

Solar Eclipse 2024: What You Need to Know to See it in New York

NY’s Housing Deal Is Here. What Does It Mean for Tenant Stability?

NYC Stabilized Tenants Face Another Round of Rent Hikes

Staring Down the Wrecking Ball, These Brooklyn Grandmothers Won’t Be Moved

Exit Unknown: Where Do People Go After Leaving NYC Homeless Shelters?

City Advises Migrants to Sleep in Chairs at Overnight ‘Drop-In Centers’

Ask a Housing Expert: The Potential of Rental Vouchers

Try It Out: City Limits’ NYC ‘Good Cause’ Rent Calculator



	On June 6, we hosted the second of our Salon Series on the NYC Housing Crisis, “NYC’s Housing Shortage & Getting Communities on Board.” The conversation featured Vicki Been, faculty director of NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy and former deputy mayor of housing under Mayor Bill de Blasio, in conversation with City Limits’ Executive Editor Jeanmarie Evelly. The discussion focused on the role of community engagement in solving the housing shortage. How can the city build new homes while addressing local concerns around displacement, infrastructure strain and neighborhood character? How do we ensure new development is distributed equitably, including in wealthier, transit-accessible communities? Click here to read more about the conversation.



	CLARIFY News Co-founder Fran Reilly with our Summer 2024 Student Reporting Interns A big welcome this week to our CLARIFY News summer student reporters! They'll spend six weeks learning the ins and outs of journalism and working on their own reporting projects. CLARIFY News is a unique and empowering Youth Training Program in Public Service Journalism that we launched in 2014. We’re grateful to our partners and supporters for this summer’s program, including The Pinkerton Foundation, The Harman Family Foundation, DJ McManus Foundation, Bergen Family Foundation and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. You can get updates on the program and read reporting by our student intern reporters at CLARIFY News.



	Please join us in congratulating City Limits’ Adi Talwar and Mariana Simões, who were recognized in June by the Silurians Press Club’s 2024 Excellence in Journalism competition. Talwar won the Merit Award for feature photography for his striking images accompanying this story about the city's first congregate shelter for migrant families at Floyd Bennett Field. Simões received the Merit Award in environmental reporting for her investigation into how fossil fuel groups are spending millions of dollars and strategically launching lawsuits to fight gas ban policies across the nation, using similar tactics, funding and legal sources—and now have their sights on New York. City Limits was also recognized for its collaboration with THE CITY, Columbia Journalism Investigations and Type Investigations, which documented the New York City Department of Education’s response to the thousands of children in its schools who lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19. Former City Limits reporter Liz Donovan and late journalist Fazil Khan chronicled how decades of underfunded mental health care left schools unprepared to handle the spike in needs during the pandemic. The piece was one of three projects—alongside two other investigations by THE CITY—to earn the top prize for investigative reporting. Congratulations to our award winners! Have a great summer everyone.

We are incredibly grateful for the support of our Board and Advisory Board:

Board: Martha Nelson-Chair, Neill Coleman-Vice Chair, Andrew Breslau, Mark Edmiston, Stephen Fee, Erica González Martínez, David R. Jones, Esq., Nicholas Lundgren, Yolanda Rodriguez, Erik Spooner.

Advisory Board: Marjorie Martay, Lynda Hamilton, Edward Lewis, Meg Louis, Michael Moskowitz, Rashad Nelms, Lisette Nieves, Michael Rezendes, Paul Spivey, Tanzina Vega, Mon Yuck Yu.