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New Data Confirms Familiar Concern: Low-Income NYers Face Harshest Housing...
Alisa Pumps It Up! Two years ago, City Limits reportedthat families in the lowest income brackets are the most rent burdened—contrary to the common claim that it’s middle class families, unprotected by...
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UrbaNerd: Who Holds New York City’s Debt?
Gotham GazetteCity Hall Last month, New York City sold $1.2 billion in general-obligation bonds, the fourth such sale this year. Some of those notes won’t mature until 2045, potentially putting the...
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Who’s Advising the City on its New Jails Plan?
The city is pursuing a unique path to getting approval for the four new jails that will take over housing detainees and inmates when Rikers Island closes: There is one environmental review, and one...
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What Does the City’s Eviction Data Really Mean?
NYC CouncilData from the Council's report. The western part of the Bronx is the epicenter of evictions in the city, according to data released Monday by the City Council speaker’s office. The data,...
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Does Mayor’s Housing Plan Help Where It’s Needed? Report Offers Complex Answers
New York City Independent Budget OfficeIBO analysis of Department Housing Preservation and Development data and 2012-2016 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Most of the apartments built or...
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Free Parking:Is it the Secret Ingredientin NYC’s Traffic Problem?
Adi TalwarAs development has rushed north along Webster Avenue in the Bronx, what used to be a lonely stretch of road bracketed by train tracks and a cemetery is now usually chock full of cars. After...
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A Snapshot of Poverty Among Older NYers Shows Pockets of Deep Need
William Alatriste for the City CouncilSenior citizens look on at a City Council hearing on policies for the aging in 2017. New York State’s senior population is growing and diversifying– especially...
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How Often do Preferential Rents Rise? Rarely, But More Than They Used To
IBONYCAn image from the IBO’s report. New York is on the verge of big changes to its rent regulations, with the state legislature likely to vote on reforms before the June 15 sunset date for the...
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Report: What NYers Have Left After Housing Costs, Other Essentials
Office of the ComptrollerStringer has proposed big policy changes on housing and child care, two major expenses squeezing some New Yorkers’ incomes. For too many New Yorkers, the city’s affordability...
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City Pushes Feds to Deliver More Vaccines to NYC
Mayor Bill de Blasio is asking the Trump administration for greater support for vaccine distribution, including extra doses to cover commuters to the city from other states. Michael Appleton/Mayoral...
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