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** Top De Blasio Official: ‘We’ve Been Able to Break the Trajectory of Homelessness’ ([link removed])
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** Other Cities Face Trash Crises, but NYC is Navigating China’s Recycling Import Ban ([link removed])
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** Climate Change Poses Serious Challenges for City’s Natural Areas ([link removed])
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** NYC Homeowners Face Huge Unknowns as Flood Insurance Changes Loom ([link removed])
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** Top De Blasio Official: ‘We’ve Been Able to Break the Trajectory of Homelessness’
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‘For the first time in a decade, the DHS shelter census is flat and actually trending downward,’ Steven Banks, the commissioner of the Department of Social Services, told the Max & Murphy Show.
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** Other Cities Face Trash Crises, but NYC is Navigating China’s Recycling Import Ban
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The city has been able to insulate itself from the impact of the Chinese ban thanks in part to its size as well as the city’s long-term vision that allowed it to build a local recycling infrastructure.
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** Climate Change Poses Serious Challenges for City’s Natural Areas
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Three experts on New York City’s environment on New York City’s natural areas, the biodiversity that exists within them and how climate change is going to affect them.
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** NYC Homeowners Face Huge Unknowns as Flood Insurance Changes Loom
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Owners on the city’s coastline and their advocates are bracing for impact as two more major anticipated changes to federal flood insurance policy promise to fundamentally alter the landscape of affordable housing in New York City.
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Opinion
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** New Yorkers Who Are Trafficking Victims, Like Me, Need Congress to Act
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‘Bipartisan, federal legislation introduced by Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the Visa Transparency Anti-Trafficking Act of 2019, would create a standardized, public reporting system that would help human rights organizations to monitor labor conditions and patterns of employer activity.’
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** 14 Reasons Why Citi Bike in Bushwick is a Bad Idea
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As the Citi Bike expansion rolls out, Bushwick's community board leaders weigh in:
‘The next time you’re driving or otherwise find yourself on Bushwick Avenue or Broadway ask yourself, Do I feel safe? Are the streets safe for children and older adults? Would I encourage people to bike or use Citi Bike here?’
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** Campaign Liaison
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The Community Service Society (CSS) seeks a Campaign Liaison to help advance CSS’s statewide, coalition-based Campaign for Criminal Records Expungement. The campaign, undertaken in coordination with partner organization Legal Action Center, has as its ultimate goal the passage of automatic criminal records expungement legislation in New York State.
The Campaign Liaison will work directly with CSS Legal Department’s Community Organizer and other key staff to move this campaign forward, engaging in coalition-based organizing and advocacy efforts both in New York City and across the state.
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