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:
A Call for Action to Ease Sunset Park’s Housing Crunch
The plan includes new tenant protections, repurposing government-owned land and isolated manufacturing parcels for housing, and a rezoning to generate both market-rate and income-targeted apartments.
Sights & Sounds: Marchers Push Assembly Speaker to Cancel Rent
But Carl Heastie says the next move in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the federal government’s to make.
Video: The de Blasio Rezonings, Revisited
In 2015, the de Blasio administration announced its plan to rezone 15 neighborhoods as part of its affordable housing initiative. So far, the city has approved six of those rezonings.
Tough Questions for Industry City in First Council Hearing on Rezoning Bid
Councilmembers scrutinized the promise of 15,000 to 20,000 jobs, which depends on hiring decisions that Industry City itself will not control.
Opinion: SoHo Zoning Debate is Over Builders' Windfall, Not Housing
‘When business groups engineered the recent SoHo/NoHo ‘re-envisioning’ process, many neighbors pushed back, aware of this administration’s miserable track record on developer-driven, community-unfriendly rezonings.’
What Opponents of the Flushing Waterfront Plan Say
A public hearing on the controversial Queens development proposal took place this week. Fans see a potential to connect isolated areas. Foes fear gentrification.
Opinion: Hotels Save Homeless Lives
‘I’m enormously grateful that my patients are safer now with private rooms and bathrooms in what would be an otherwise empty hotel,' says Kathleen Alvarez, a nurse practitioner.
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From Around the City and Beyond
- A Life in Limbo for Homeless Families at Mercy of City’s Moving Whims [The City]
- Rents Are Down in Manhattan, But Up in Neighborhoods Hit Hardest by COVID-19 [Curbed NY]
- DHS pausing move of homeless from Upper West Side hotel [WABC-7]
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For Your Calendar:
- Tuesday, September 22nd: Public Hearings/Meeting.The review session and public hearings are viewable online in real time on the Board’s website and [Youtube]. As well as Zoom call. Learn more [Here]
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