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Data Drop: How NY Dispersed Aid for Undocumented Hurricane Ida Victims
As of last month, the state had doled out just over $2 million of the $27 million set aside for the relief fund, according to recent data shared with City Limits. In total, 405 of the 554 New Yorkers who applied have been approved, and 352 have actually received the aid.
Advocates have said that they would like any unused portions of the earmarked funds to go to another kind of relief program for the same population, or to establish a permanent fund for future undocumented storm victims.
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Tensions Over Conditions at Emergency Shelters as NYC Struggles to House Migrants
For weeks, City Limits has been speaking to people sheltered at two of the city’s Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers, or HERRCs: one at The ROW Hotel and another at The Watson Hotel in Manhattan, where adult men were recently transferred out and relocated to a congregate facility at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook. Read the story. ([link removed]) [link removed]
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Buried Beneath: The Fight to Clean Up Toxic Brownfields in The Bronx
All across the Bronx there are toxic chemicals in the ground, hazardous enough to the people who live and work nearby that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has ordered them cleaned up. Yet years—and in some cases decades—after the dangers were identified, the toxic substances are still here, unremediated. Read the story. ([link removed]) [link removed]
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Mayor Adams Promised 20,000 Trees a Year. But Budget Cuts Threaten Progress
A staff of just 302 people tend to a crop of over 865,000 trees across the city. Adams’ preliminary budget aims to slash $46 million from the Parks Department, which environmentalists fear signals a step back in the mayor’s promise to keep New York City’s canopy alive and growing. Read the story. ([link removed]) [link removed]
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Opinion: If NYC Hosts the Democratic Convention, It Must Do Better Than ’04—At Protecting Free Speech
“Before the sidewalk stands start selling Convention ’24 t-shirts, we need to hear from the city’s boosters about how New York will handle an essential element of any modern convention: dissent. Because the last time we hosted a national nominating event, that part didn’t go so well. In fact, it was a disaster.” Read the story. ([link removed])
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Con SWEAT, defensores de trabajadores renuevan presión en favor de una legislación contra el robo de salarios
Siete organizaciones de trabajadores han compilado una base de datos sobre el robo de salarios durante la pandemia por un total de $130.5 millones de dólares adeudados a los trabajadores. Una versión preliminar de estos datos ha sido compartida con City Limits. Leer el artículo. ([link removed]) [link removed]
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Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation (CHLDC) is a multi-service, nonprofit community development organization and settlement house in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. The Tenant Counselor will counsel and represent low-income tenants to prevent eviction, secure apartment and building repairs, stop harassment, and otherwise resolve tenant-landlord conflicts.
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The Center for an Urban Future (CUF) is a leading think tank focused on the future of New York City. The ideal candidate will have outstanding writing and editing skills; significant work experience conducting research, communications and/or journalism on public policy issues; fluency in New York’s policy and government landscape; a passion for New York; and some familiarity with issues related to economic opportunity.
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