“Should I pay for my medication or should I pay my rent?” said stabilized tenant Viola Bibins, 77. “I am on a fixed income because I’m retired, and my rent isn’t that high but I still can’t afford it.”

Story by Emma Whitford, photos by Adi Talwar: bit.ly/3QqDNeK

Horrifying housing affordability data from ANHD's Lucy Block, an important point of reference for this year's RGB vote and tenant-rep walk-out.

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Seven of the board’s nine mayoral appointees voted 5-2 in favor of rent hikes between 2 and 4.5% for a one-year lease and 4 to 6.5% for two years.

Minutes earlier, its two tenant members had walked out in protest, along with most of the chanting crowd.

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“Policies to facilitate intra-state transfers of asylum-seekers would be a win-win, both for small cities that need an injection of people and economic drawing power, and for large cities that...are currently overwhelmed by the influx of new arrivals.” bit.ly/3JFpCOY

It’s that time of year again: tenants are marching to the rent guidelines board preliminary vote in Long Island City

The public review process for City of Yes expedites the typical timeline by having borough presidents and community boards weigh in simultaneously. They’ll have two months to examine the proposal and suggest changes. bit.ly/3vQ39LK

Tenants shared concerns about getting timely repairs post-conversion, and questioned NYCHA’s process for selecting the campuses it converts to PACT. “We didn’t have a choice to vote,” said one resident at Penn-Wortman Houses, a PACT development since 2021. bit.ly/4dbmTu6

It was such an honor speaking with Daniel Parra Mejía and Jesús García 🐦 for the City Limits podcast about 'Frontera: A Journey Across the US/Mexico Border'

A project that was three years in the making with Guadalupe Correa

#BorderLife #USMexicoBorder #RGV #Matamoros #Reynosa #Tijuana

A busy week ahead for NYC housing and land use: the Rent Guidelines Board holds a preliminary vote, Council Member Amanda Farías hosts a community meeting on new development in Parkchester, & Jane's Walk this weekend!

More in our weekly housing calendar: bit.ly/4di3rMm

Why does the State's basement & cellar program exclude East New York, home to the pilot that paved the way for this state law? Where residents showed overwhelming interest in the program & the Council Member supports it? City Limits looks into what happened--and what's next.

Why is the basement legalization pilot approved in the state budget so small in scope?

“Some of my colleagues have argued that effectively you would be rewarding property owners for doing something that’s improper,” Sen. Brian Kavanagh told Emma Whitford

ICYMI via City Limits Mariana Simões: How Governor Kathy Hochul NY Assembly Majority dropped the ball on climate in the budget.

As Jessica Azulay AGREE New York says, “we’re not giving up” on #NYHEAT this session. citylimits.org/2024/04/25/som…

“I’m surprised, I’m baffled, I’m angry,” said Sandy Nurse who represents East New York, where the city ran an earlier basement conversion pilot.

It's excluded from the new program, which applies to 15 of NYC's 59 community districts

via Chris Janaro: bit.ly/3WlZT5J

“Calling this a pilot was the fig leaf that allowed them to play politics with boundaries” -Howard Slatkin Executive Director at Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) on the state’s go-ahead for a new basement&cellar legalization pilot in select city community districts. For City Limits
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“I’m surprised, I’m baffled, I’m angry,” Sandy Nurse told Chris Janaro in his postmortem on the state's new basement legalization pilot.

The pilot excludes Nurse's district, among many others: citylimits.org/2024/04/29/adv…

To date, 37,707 NYCHA units are either in the planning and engagement stage, under construction or have already been converted to the Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) initiative, officials said. bit.ly/4dbmTu6

Un verdadero privilegio haber platicado con Daniel Parra Mejía (@CityLimitsNews/Una Ciudad Sin Límites) y Jesús García 🐦 (@eldiariony) sobre nuestro nuevo libro 'Frontera: A Journey Across the US-Mexico Border' (escrito con mi hermano Sergio Chapa). Fue una gran experiencia.

¿Cómo son las comunidades en ambos lados de la frontera entre Méx y USA?

Explican Guadalupe Correa y Sergio Chapa a
Daniel Parra Mejía (@CityLimitsNews /Una Ciudad Sin Límites ) y a Jesús García 🐦 (@eldiariony )

Tamoa Calzadilla de Factchequeado desmiente paracaidistas en Columbia University
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Read more about the proposal: bit.ly/3vQ39LK