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Councilmembers Cite Concerns Over COVID Safety in Visit to ICE Detainees
One person at the facility told City Limits he has been detained by ICE for more than six months but has only been given two cloth masks during that time, despite jail staff telling councilmembers they have masks in abundance.

NYC Installs WiFi at Every Family Homeless Shelter Following Legal Settlement
After months of pandemic-induced school closures and remote learning in 2020, a lawsuit on behalf of three families with children in shelter that accused the city of violating their state constitutional right to a “sound basic education.”

City’s Homeless Services Head Hails Moves Out of Subway, But Won’t Say How Many Stay in Shelter
More than 700 people staying on trains or at end-of-line stations accepted placement in a temporary shelter in the first two months of Adams’ so-called “Subway Safety Plan,” according to agency data, but Jenkins would not say how many stick around..

Building Owners File Lawsuit to Block Key NYC Climate Law
Local Law 97, passed in 2019, requires buildings to lower emissions beginning in 2024. Property owners who fail to comply will face penalties calculated based upon how much their buildings’ emissions exceed the city’s benchmarks—what a new lawsuit decries as “draconian.”

NYC Aims to Restaff Wiped-Out Housing Discrimination Unit as Voucher Values Rise
The budget plan proposes moving six staffers from the Human Resources Administration to the Source of Income (SOI) discrimination unit at the Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), which had zero attorneys working on those cases after its final employee departed last month following years of employee exits and unfilled vacancies, City Limits previously reported.

You Told Us: Should New York Extend Mayoral Control of City Schools?
City Limits asked readers and members of the city’s education community to fill out a survey about the policy, which is set to expire at the end of June. We heard from nearly 90 respondents, including dozens of current and former parents, educators and advocates. Here’s what we found.

Apply Now: City Limits Youth Journalism Internship for Summer 2022

This is a paid journalism training program for New York City high school students who will be entering either their junior or senior year of high school (11th and 12th grades) in the upcoming fall 2022 semester. Students graduating from high school this June are also eligible. The deadline to apply is June 10.

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City Views

Opinions and Analysis on Policy and Politics

Opinion: What Older New Yorkers Deserve In the Next Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic
"We must ensure that New York City’s growing population of 1.25 million adults ages 65 and older can access high-quality services, resources, and opportunities that accommodate their needs and preferences, celebrate their strengths and resilience, and empower them to live in the communities they helped build and continue to make meaningful contributions to."

Opinion: NYC’s Rebounding Rents Shine Light on Long-Standing Crisis
"Two years into the pandemic, the city is moving ahead with a return to ‘normal,’ but the pre-pandemic real estate market’s ‘normal’ is not something to which we should aspire to."

Opinion: Price Gouging is Crushing Low-Income New Yorkers. Here’s What Gov. Hochul Should Do
"Unemployment continues to be higher in places like Flatbush, Brooklyn—my neighborhood—than in the wealthiest parts of the city and state. For my unemployed neighbors and those earning low wages, price increases hit us much, much harder than the richest residents of the Upper East Side who may own two or three homes."

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Lo que necesita saber sobre: ¿Cómo las personas indocumentadas pueden acceder a servicios de salud con NYC Care?
En Nueva York, hay más de un millón de personas sin seguro médico, dice un informe del Community Service Society (CSS por sus siglas en inglés y que es un financiador de City Limits) y el Citizens Budget Commission (CBC por sus siglas en inglés).

Junta de directrices sobre alquileres de la ciudad de Nueva York vota por un aumento del 2 al 4% para las unidades con renta estabilizada. ¿Y ahora qué?
Los aumentos de las tarifas para el millón de apartamentos con renta estabilizada de la ciudad son menos de lo que los propietarios han exigido, citando el incremento de los costos. Pero inquilinos y defensores de vivienda que piden que se congelen los alquileres dicen que la subida de la renta empeorará la crisis de desahucios de la ciudad.

Otra vez el Estado retrasa la decisión sobre la expansión de la planta de gas de Greenpoint por parte de National Grid
Es la sexta vez que el Estado aplaza la decisión sobre la ampliación, dicha ampliación ha sido criticada por ecologistas ya que es contraria a los objetivos climáticos de Nueva York. El DEC dice que esperará hasta que la Comisión de Servicios Públicos pueda evaluar el proyecto.

Concejales manifiestan su preocupación por la seguridad de los detenidos después de su visita a centro de detención de ICE en NY
Uno de los detenidos dijo a City Limits que ha estado detenido por ICE durante más de seis meses, pero solo le han dado dos tapabocas de tela durante ese tiempo, a pesar de que el personal de la cárcel dijo a los concejales que tienen tapabocas en abundancia.

¿Cómo es vivir siendo monitoreado por el programa alternativo a la detención (ATD)?
Según el informe, el número de personas en la aplicación móvil SmartLink del programa ISAP aumentó del 12 por ciento al 76 por ciento y oficinas de campo de ICE en ciudades como Baltimore, Dallas, Nueva York y Phoenix, vieron casi un 1.000 por ciento de crecimiento en el número de personas en SmartLink.

City Limits asked readers and members of the city’s education community to fill out a survey about the policy, which is set to expire at the end of June. We heard from nearly 90 respondents, including dozens of current and former parents, educators and advocates.

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