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NYC's Rent Guidelines Board Votes for 2-4% Hikes for Stabilized Units. What Now? ([link removed])
The rate increases are lower than property owners have pushed for, citing rising costs. But tenants and housing advocates who’ve called for a rent freeze say the hike will worsen the city’s eviction crisis.
After First 100 Days, Where Do Eric Adams’ Campaign Plans for Immigrant New Yorkers Stand? ([link removed])
Eric Adams introduced his plan for immigrant communities called WeRISE (Raise Immigrant Safety and Empowerment) while campaigning for office in June 2021. After three months in office, little progress has been made so far.
May 24: Climate Experts to Discuss the Future of NYC’s Waterfront ([link removed])
Join City Limits at the 2022 Waterfront Conference, a day-long event of speeches and panels by experts in resiliency, housing, and policy to address approaches to the climate crisis that range from federal policy to hyperlocal solutions.
The City Touts Progress on Street Homeless Outreach. Critics Say It’s More of the Same ([link removed])
The mayor says his focus on clearing unsheltered New Yorkers out of public spaces is part of a necessary strategy to connect a hard-to-reach population with city services. But advocates and those who’ve been subject to the sweeps say the administration is merely continuing a long-used practice that causes harm and doesn’t work.
Eric Adams’ Revised Housing Budget ‘Just Not Enough,’ Despite Boost for Shelter Beds ([link removed])
Stakeholders say the latest funding plan—while an improvement from the mayor’s preliminary budget earlier this year—still fails to provide enough resources for a city emerging from a pandemic amidst rising rents, mounting eviction cases and nearly 50,000 residents staying in homeless shelters each night.
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** “People are suggesting that maybe when they get evicted, they can come and live with some of the board members who are imposing these increases.”
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--Sheila Garcia, a tenant advocate, about the NYC Rent Guidelines Board, which voted Thursday to raise rents for stabilized units.
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Opinions and Analysis on Policy and Politics
Opinion: How States Can Help Incarcerated Mothers Stay Connected to Their Kids ([link removed])
"We found that nearly two-thirds of mothers in prison in New Jersey hadn’t ever received a single visit from their children. And due to the prohibitive costs of prison phone calls, many won’t even be able to hear their children’s voices on their special day."
Opinion: For The Sake Of Public Health and Safety, Pass The Treatment Not Jail Act ([link removed])
"Strikingly, New York currently incarcerates 40,000 people, almost half of whom are diagnosed with a mental health disorder. New York incarcerates more people with mental illness than it treats in hospitals."
Opinion: Supportive Housing Can Help Break the Cycle Between Homelessness and Incarceration ([link removed])
"Deeply affordable housing with supportive services for this population has a proven track record of success and hits all the Adams administration’s goals of efficiency, smart government, addressing problems at their root, and getting things done."
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Tras los primeros 100 días, ¿en qué punto se encuentran los planes de campaña de Eric Adams para los inmigrantes neoyorquinos? ([link removed]) [link removed]
La agenda de Adams tenía unas 11 propuestas que iban desde poner en marcha un fondo empresarial para inmigrantes de $50 millones de dólares anuales —para pequeñas empresas creadas por inmigrantes de primera y segunda generación— hasta sacar al Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE por sus siglas en inglés) de todos los edificios e instalaciones de la ciudad.
Calidad del aire en Nueva York está mejorando, pero los objetivos en cuanto a emisiones siguen estando lejos ([link removed])
Para 2050, las emisiones anuales de gases de efecto invernadero de la ciudad de Nueva York no deberían superar los 12 millones de toneladas de dióxido de carbono —y en 2020, solo los edificios representaron 34 millones de toneladas métricas.
Dificultades para determinar los resultados de dos décadas de operaciones fronterizas financiadas por contribuyentes en Texas ([link removed])
Los gobernadores prometían que el estado de Texas haría lo que el gobierno federal no estaba haciendo que era, en sus términos, asegurar la frontera. En menos de dos décadas, la financiación estatal para la seguridad fronteriza pasó de $110 millones de dólares en 2008-2009 a más de $3.000 millones para el ciclo presupuestario de este año 2022-2023.
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