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Hochul, Lawmakers Look to Override NY’s Exclusionary Zoning Amid Housing Crunch ([link removed])
State leaders—including Kathy Hochul and one of her gubernatorial rivals, Tom Suozzi—are at odds over bills that would override local “exclusionary zoning” rules that prohibit homeowners from renting accessory dwelling units (ADUs) on their property.
Plastic Bags Still Ubiquitous in NYC Shops, Months After Enforcement of Ban Began ([link removed])
The effectiveness of New York’s plastic bag ban could serve as a portend for other, similar bans on single-use plastics either already approved or under discussion at both the city and state legislative levels. To get a better sense of how its implementation is going, City Limits’ CLARIFY interns spoke to more than 50 bodega owners and store workers in the outer boroughs to see if they’re still using plastic, and if so, to tell us why.
District Managers Call on NYC to Boost Budgets for Community Boards ([link removed])
“Community Boards are currently being asked to do more with less,” wrote a task force of district managers and administrative staffers in a report released last month. “Especially in the last year-and-a-half, community boards have been on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis.”
What Will Happen to the Millions in Unspent Ida Aid for NY Immigrants? ([link removed])
The fund received 528 applications and as of Jan. 26, less than half (216 applications) had been approved. Of the $27 million available for this fund, less than $1 million has been disbursed so far.
New York State Behind Schedule on Electric Vehicle Charging Ports, Audit Says ([link removed])
The New York Power Authority has installed only 277 public charging ports between 2013 and May 2021, when the audit period ended. An effort to install high-speed chargers is also lagging: As of last March, NYPA had installed only 29 of the 200 high-speed chargers it was supposed to provide by the end of 2019.
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--Francisco Marte, founder of the Bodega and Small Business Association of New York
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Opinions and Analysis on Policy and Politics
Opinion: A Slow But Accelerating Crisis—Preserving Affordable Housing for Up to 1.4 Million NYers ([link removed])
‘The same combination of streamlined pension fund investments and public subsidies that worked so successfully in the 1980s and early 1990s, needs to be reinvigorated to preserve the city’s enormous reservoir of privately-owned affordable housing.’
Opinion: DA Bragg’s Well-Intentioned Reforms Have Little Impact While Racist Policing Persists ([link removed])
‘Of the 33 cases we at PROP have seen this year, none entailing a serious charge, 30 involved New Yorkers of color—unsurprising since 90 percent of the more than 7,000 cases we have observed since beginning the Court Monitoring Project in 2014 also involved New Yorkers of color.’
Opinion: A Focus on ‘Efficiency’ Will Keep Thousands of New Yorkers Needlessly Homeless ([link removed])
‘Thousands of units of supportive housing—affordable housing with onsite support services for people experiencing homelessness who face additional barriers to stability—are standing vacant for months while more than 70,000 New Yorkers remain in shelter and on the streets. This is the ultimate inefficiency.’
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Queens Councilmember on Increasing Access to Mental Healthcare
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¿Qué pasará con los millones de ayudas de Ida no gastadas para los inmigrantes de NY? ([link removed])
El fondo recibió 528 aplicaciones y hasta el 26 enero, menos de la mitad (216 aplicaciones) habían sido aprobadas. De los $27 millones de dólares disponibles para este fondo, menos de un millón de dólares ha sido desembolsado.
¿Cómo son las condiciones para los inmigrantes detenidos por ICE en Nueva York? ([link removed])
En la última seman de enero, abogados y defensores de inmigrantes adviertieron de un posible brote de COVID-19 entre los inmigrantes detenidos en el centro penitenciario del condado de Orange, NY. Tres clientes de Bronx Defenders han logrado acceder a la vacuna luego de que City Limits hiciera publica la situación.
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