Nonprofits
NYN Media
NYC lagging on vendor payments during critical time, housing service providers say
Providers claim that a cumbersome city-mandated rebid process is forcing them to draw from their own funds for things like food, medical and security services and holding them back from expanding to help address the city’s migrant shelter crisis.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Immigrant households disproportionately rent-burdened: Report
Nearly 434,000 children in New York City were in households with at least one immigrant parent and experienced rent burden in 2021, according to the Citizens’ Committee for Children analysis.
Nonprofits
Special Report
NYN Media
With asylum seekers’ arrival in NYC, shelter advocates worry the city will cut legal corners
The mayor’s plan to temporarily house some arrivals outside the city shelter system, with its stringent criteria, has advocates on alert.
New York City
Policy
With asylum seekers’ arrival in NYC, shelter advocates worry the city will cut legal corners
The mayor’s plan to temporarily house some arrivals outside the city shelter system, with its stringent criteria, has advocates on alert.
Policy
Policy
Evictions slowly ramp up after COVID-19
They’re nowhere at pre-pandemic levels, but a small but steady rise since January may portend a new crisis.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
With inflation soaring, some lawmakers want to hike New York’s minimum wage rates next year
They also want to follow the lead of 16 states who annually index their minimum wage to inflation to keep up with the cost of living.
Policy
Policy
With inflation soaring, some lawmakers want to hike New York’s minimum wage rates next year
They also want to follow the lead of 16 states who annually index their minimum wage to inflation to keep up with the cost of living.
New York City
Policy
New York City’s real estate subsidy program is dead. What should a revived version look like?
Should developers get a shorter tax exemption period? Be made to offer more deeply affordable units? These details will determine if the 421-a program reemerges.
News & Politics
Politics
Lobbyists navigate a more civil yet nuanced landscape in Albany
A more receptive governor’s office and a solidly progressive state Senate have created new opportunities.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Could NYCHA really fall into private hands?
Officials supporting a new public housing trust to fund billions in repairs say no, but the law says yes.
Homelessness
Policy
Here are all the barriers to turning hotels into permanent housing
New legislation was meant to advance conversions of failed hotels into affordable housing, but it won’t be easy or cheap.
Housing
Policy
Could NYCHA really fall into private hands?
Officials supporting a new public housing trust to fund billions in repairs say no, but the law says yes.
Housing
Policy