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Welcome to the Mapping the Future newsletter, where we feature reporting by City Limits and other outlets—as well as resources for readers—on the politics and policy of land-use and housing in New York City.
Here are this week's top stories:
Hotel-Turned-Shelter for Released Rikers Detainees Faces Backlash in Fresh Meadows ([link removed][UNIQID])
Chinese residents and businesses in the neighborhood collected more than 10,000 signatures on a petition against the arrangement, arguing the city should have notified the community of the plan.
Fearing Evictions, Tenant Groups Push Rent Cancellation, New Housing Voucher ([link removed][UNIQID])
‘New Yorkers from all walks of life have suffered personally and financially because of the pandemic. We need legislative solutions that recognize both the need for direct relief to tenants struggling to pay rent and to property owners with obligations to pay mortgages, property taxes and their building service employees’
Has NYS Only ‘Delayed the Inevitable’ When it Comes to Evictions? ([link removed][UNIQID])
From day one, the concern about Gov. Cuomo’s order was that it postponed rent but didn’t forgive it, meaning that tenants would owe a huge overdue balance once the moratorium ended. Especially for the many families barely getting by, and those unable to tap into existing relief programs, paying that balance could be impossible.
From Around the City and Beyond
* Homelessness: The Ultimate Result of COVID Evictions [WNYC ([link removed][UNIQID]) ]
* Feeling Left out, Public Housing Tenants ‘Not on Board’ with Privatization Plan [The City ([link removed][UNIQID]) ]
* How to Avert the Next Housing Crisis [Curbed ([link removed][UNIQID]) ]
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** For Your Calendar:
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* Monday, July 27, 10 a.m.: NYC Board of Standards and Appeals remote executive session. The meeting will be streamed live via Zoom ([link removed][UNIQID]#success) and Youtube ([link removed][UNIQID]) . Call-in number: 646 558 8656 Meeting ID: 951 7432 1862. Password: 778231. Agenda: [here] ([link removed][UNIQID])
* Monday, July 27, 2 p.m.: NYC BSA live-streamed Review Session and Hearing. The meeting will be streamed live via Zoom ([link removed][UNIQID]#success) and Youtube ([link removed][UNIQID]) . Call-in number: 646 558 8656. Meeting ID: 963 1612 6188. Password: 533415. Agenda:[here] ([link removed][UNIQID])
* Tuesday, July 28, 10 a.m.: NYC BSA live-streamed Review Session and Hearing. The meeting will be streamed live via Zoom ([link removed][UNIQID]#success) and Youtube ([link removed][UNIQID]) . Call-in number: 646 558 8656. Meeting ID: 934 5018 3937. Password: 438680. Agenda: [here] ([link removed][UNIQID])
* Tuesday, July 28, 1:30 p.m.: City Council stated remote meeting: [here] ([link removed][UNIQID])
* Tuesday, July 28, 2 p.m.: NYC BSA live-streamed Review Session and Hearing. The meeting will be live-streamed via Zoom ([link removed][UNIQID]#success) and Youtube ([link removed][UNIQID]) . Call-in number: 646 558 8656. Meeting ID: 953 4198 7628. Password: 964086. Agenda:[here] ([link removed][UNIQID])
* Wednesday, July 29, 10 a.m.: New York City Housing Authority live-streamed Board meeting. The meeting will be streamed live at [link removed][UNIQID] and Board Calendar ([link removed][UNIQID]) , or can be accessed by calling 1 (408)-418-9388 using Event number (access code): 129 489 2597 and Event password: nychaboard.
Citizens' Toolkit
Worried about bringing COVID-19 home
now that the city is reopening?
Here are some tips on how to properly disinfect,
courtesy of the CDC ([link removed][UNIQID]) .
Affordable Apartments
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The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development is closing lotteries ([link removed][UNIQID]) on the following subsidized buildings over the next week:
15 Cedar Street ([link removed][UNIQID])
158 East 126th Street ([link removed][UNIQID])
645 West 59th street ([link removed][UNIQID])
804 Jefferson Avenue ([link removed][UNIQID])
187 Kent Avenue ([link removed][UNIQID])
470 Manhattan Avenue ([link removed][UNIQID])
346 Bergen Street ([link removed][UNIQID])
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