Hochul, Lawmakers Look to Override NY’s Exclusionary Zoning Amid Housing Crunch 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 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 “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.”
New York State Behind Schedule on Electric Vehicle Charging Ports, Audit Says 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.
Opinion: A Focus on ‘Efficiency’ Will Keep Thousands of New Yorkers Needlessly Homeless ‘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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¿Cómo son las condiciones para los inmigrantes detenidos por ICE en Nueva York? 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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