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Pressed for Shelter Space, NYC Turns to Notorious Landlords with Ties to Mayor’s Chief of Staff

Brothers Stuart and Jay Podolsky—long known for profiting off of poorly-maintained housing, and who are recent clients of Adams’ Chief of Staff Frank Carone—are leasing at least three of their hotels to the city for use as shelters for homeless families.

"The Podolskys are a concern because of more than just their connection with Frank Carone. They seem to be not very good landlords or to be not very good vendors," one ethics watchdog said. “We don’t have better options?”

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Green Design Could Prevent Ida-Style Flooding in 40K Queens Basements: Report 
Just three acres in Central Queens are designed to handle stormwater runoff, but to more effectively prevent flooding, the area would need about 120 acres of green infrastructure, the report found.

NYC Council Approves ‘Resilient Edgemere’ Rezoning Plan
The land use plan encompasses the area bound by Beach 35th Street and Beach 50th Street and will change zoning rules to increase density in some areas, limit development in others and raise the shoreline along Jamaica Bay.

After Slow Start, NYC Issues Thousands of Federal Housing Vouchers
The city has distributed 91 percent of the roughly 7,800 new emergency housing vouchers (EHVs) they received last May—a dramatic increase since March, when they had issued less than a third of the total. Now comes the hard part: helping recipients use the subsidies to actually lease an apartment.



Pledged Amenity Space at Atlantic Yards Was Never Built. What Will That Mean for Promised Affordable Housing?
The developer’s failed promise to build a glass-enclosed public plaza in front of the Barclays Center is a bad sign for its other pledges to the community yet to be fulfilled: Most importantly, the 877 units of affordable housing still unbuilt, advocates and officials say.
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PODCAST: ¿Cómo California piensa ofrecer beneficios alimentarios y de salud a indocumentados?
California se convertirá en el primer estado en permitir a personas indocumentadas de bajos ingreso acceder la atención médica y beneficios alimentarios como cupones de alimentos a todas las personas mayores de 55 años sin importar el estatus migratorio.

Proyecto de ley del concejo podría obligar a la ciudad a informar el censo real de refugios para personas sin hogar—eventualmente
El total comúnmente citado por los funcionarios de la ciudad no incluye a miles de personas que se alojan en refugios administrados por organismos distintos al Departamento de Servicios para Personas sin Hogar (DHS), dejando por fuera a más del 15 por ciento de la población real.

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City Views

Opinions and Analysis on Policy and Politics

Opinion: Mayor Adams, Please Ask NYC to Mask Up
“I am deeply concerned that New York City is taking the foot off the brakes at the exact wrong moment.”
—Kate Cunningham is an M.D.-Ph.D. student at Columbia University.

Opinion: Rejecting the Notion of a ‘Feminist’ Jail for Harlem
“Do New York City’s leaders intend to build a new jail every time an old one fails, as it always will? In a city which boasts some of the world’s leading creative, political, and courageous minds, can we not recognize policing and imprisonment as policy failures?”
—Samah Mcgona Sisay, a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights

Opinion: Gov. Hochul, Hold Amazon Accountable this Prime Day
“As Amazon gets richer, workers are waiting for protections they needed yesterday, and the state has an important role to play. Gov. Hochul can demonstrate her leadership and prove that she will fight for working people. The first step is signing the Warehouse Worker Protection Act.”
—Maritza Silva-Farrell is executive director of ALIGN
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