For NYC Tenants with Inadequate Heat, Enforcement Can Be Elusive 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 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 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.
Flashback Friday: The Seeds of Mayoral Control for NYC Schools, 2002 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.
Opinion: It’s Time for NYC to Think Outside the Composting Box ‘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.’
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