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For NYC Tenants with Inadequate Heat, Enforcement Can Be Elusive ([link removed])
City Limits examined 311 data related to heat and hot water complaints over the past three years, and found the highest number were in areas populated by communities of color and lower-income individuals. They include Washington Heights, followed by several neighborhoods in The Bronx, including the community district where the deadly Twin Parks fire occurred.
2021 Was Deadliest Year on Record for Homeless New Yorkers ([link removed])
Last year, 640 unhoused people died in shelters, hospitals or the streets, 4 percent higher than in 2020, when COVID-19 first struck New York City. The rise in fatalities was fueled by an uptick in drug overdoses, and occurred even as the city’s shelter population reached its lowest level in a decade.
Mayor’s Budget Proposal Comes Up Short on Homeless Outreach, Shelter Costs: Report ([link removed])
Mayor Eric Adams’ preliminary budget for the upcoming fiscal year underestimates what the city will need to spend on homeless services by around $200 million, a new report says—projecting funding gaps in covering the costs of newly-increased rental vouchers, and for outreach associated with the mayor’s plan to ramp up enforcement against unhoused New Yorkers in the subway.
Bronx Residents Demand Closure of Polluting ‘Peaker Plants’ as State Ramps Up Renewable Energy ([link removed])
Residents in The Bronx’s “Asthma Alley” ask the New York Power Authority to commit to transition off of costly fossil fuel-burning power plants.
Flashback Friday: The Seeds of Mayoral Control for NYC Schools, 2002 ([link removed])
State lawmakers on Friday held a hearing to consider whether to extend mayoral control of city schools for another three years. City Limits takes a look back at our early coverage of the 20-year-old policy, which was intended to provide a “a radical jolt” to faltering NYC public schools at the time, following in the foot steps of cities like Chicago and Boston.
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** “It’s so lonely. That’s just not the way people should die.”
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--Shams DaBaron, a homeless rights advocate who has lived in shelters and in public spaces.
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Opinions and Analysis on Policy and Politics
Opinion: It’s Time for NYC to Think Outside the Composting Box ([link removed])
‘Mayor Adams has taken on the admirable challenge of promoting plant-based diets because of their health benefits to individuals. In many ways, composting and healthy eating go hand-in-hand, improving human health and the well-being of the environment around us. To be successful, both also require a shift in our thinking.’
Opinion: NYC Needs a Collaborative Approach to Improving Residents’ Whole Health ([link removed])
‘Historically, city agencies have been too siloed and funding for programs too disparate to create meaningful improvements to people’s health. I believe Eric Adams is the mayor to change that.’
Opinion: 421-a Has Benefited Tens of Thousands of New Yorkers. That’s Why We Should Pass Hochul’s Replacement. ([link removed])
“The governor’s bill maintains many of the core aspects of 421-a that have been vital to our city’s economic success and is a positive first step.”
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¿Viene una nueva generación de latinos de Texas como representantes a la cámara? ([link removed])
Jessica Cisneros y Greg Casar se presentan como la nueva generación de progresistas del partido demócrata recibiendo el respaldo político de Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders y Elizabeth Warren.
Opinión: Nueva York puede resolver el retraso en los tribunales de inmigración financiando los servicios jurídicos ([link removed])
“Actualmente no existe el derecho a la defensa pública en los procedimientos de inmigración, pero contar con un abogado para navegar por este sistema notoriamente complicado hace avanzar la causa de la justicia”.
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