The Home Stretch: Trump, Biden and NYC's Housing Crunch

Your Guide to NYC’s 2020 Election
Enter your address to see who's on your ballot November 3. It's not just the presidential race: every seat in Congress and state Senate & Assembly district is up for grabs, too.

Nearly 10K NYC Eviction Notices Filed This Summer, a 74% Drop
Despite the dip, Tenant advocates say Gov. Cuomo’s extension of the eviction moratorium will permit too many cases to proceed, and doesn't protect tenants who are undocumented or work in informal jobs.

In ‘Holistic’ Approach to Crime, DA Hopeful Wants to Prosecute Landlords
Diana Florence, one of nine candidates challenging incumbent Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance in June's primary, says landlords who game the rent-regulation system ought to face criminal sanctions.

NYCHA Gets Nod for Work to ‘Connect’ Communities
An initiative to redesign the authority’s 2,400 acres of open space on public housing campuses stresses resident engagement.

Swing-Seat Dem Fights for Re-election Amid Renewed COVID Lockdown
Andrew Gounardes, who represents southern Brooklyn, turned one of the last red seats in New York city blue two years ago. He could face a tough race trying to hang on to it.

Voting Problems: What NYers Actually Need to Worry About
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said there’s a problem with the way the U.S. does elections, and broadly speaking, he's right. It’s just that the real problem is not the one he talks about—fraud—but the election system’s tendency to discourage or disenfranchise voters.
 

'We hear proponents of voter suppression talk about voter fraud, and the reason those two go together is the devices used to prevent so-called fraud actually prevent eligible voters from voting.'

— Perry Grossman, a senior attorney in the voting rights project at the New York Civil Liberties Union, on what New Yorkers actually need to worry about at the polls next month.