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For Some Landlords, It's Not Easy Going Green
If New York is to meet PlanNYC's goals, apartment buildings must get greener. While property owners and tenants both benefit from more efficient systems, getting them up and running takes a different kind of green.
Industrial, Homeless Policies Clash in East New York
A plan to build subsidized housing in a zone reserved for manufacturing businesses pits efforts to reduce the shelter population against hopes of saving industrial New York.
Deep Concerns about ‘Three-Quarter’ Housing
Three-quarter homes give people who are homeless, leaving prison or seeking substance-abuse treatment a place to stay. But critics say the houses are unregulated and sometimes unsafe.
Lawsuits Target Three-Quarter Operators
At some dormitories for homeless people, lawyers allege, landlords forced tenants to attend particular drug programs and failed to provide safe housing. But operators say they were trying to do good—or at least following the law.
Three-Quarter Houses Mix Problems with Positives
The unregulated rooming houses often feature crowded, unsafe conditions. But even some critics point out that they play an important role in keeping people off the street.
City, AIDS Activists Clash Over Fees
Advocates say a Bloomberg administration reduction of brokers' fees paid under an HIV/AIDS housing program has made life harder for HIV-positive clients.
Affordable Housing 'Maze' Confronts Would-Be Tenants
The city is in the midst of an historic plan to build affordable housing. But people who want to live in those low-income units face enormous difficulty finding and applying for government-subsidized apartments.
Cuts Cripple Housing Assistance Network in Inwood, Washington Heights
Residents looking for help with housing disputes must line up as early as 3 a.m to get assistance from cash-strapped community organizations in particularly vulnerable northern Manhattan neighborhoods.
Bloomberg Housing Plan Hits Milestones, Obstacles
The mayor's ambitious affordable housing initiative is three-quarters to completion. But reshaped by fiscal woes, complicated by other city policies and often outgunned by the private market, what will the plan's long-term impact be?
Affordable Housing
Originally a newsletter for non-profit groups and tenants in New York’s housing community, City Limits has been investigating affordable housing issues since 1976. While access to affordable housing is essential to a complacent citizen population, policies and initiatives enacted by political leaders sometimes fall short of addressing the concerns regarding low-cost living spaces. The battle for affordable housing has endured many setbacks and obstacles, and signs of victory remain unseen. Presently, City Limits continues to closely follow New York’s struggle to achieve widely accessible affordable housing.
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Report Sees Renters' Crisis - Jarrett Murphy
When a housing market collapse kicked America into recession, it was reasonable to hope that one benefit would be to reduce housing costs for low-income people. No such luck.
As NYCHA Seeks Flexibility, Tenant Advocates Concerned - Jarrett Murphy
The city's public housing agency wants rules relaxed to allow creative budgeting. But advocates for residents want stronger assurances that financial flexibility won't come at the cost of tenant rights.
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Audit of a Drug Treatment Service
A New York State agency audit detailed links between a substance-abuse treatment service and a provider of "sober homes."
NYC's New Policy on Three-Quarter Houses
In 2010, the Department of Homeless Services moved to adopt guidelines that bar referrals of shelter residents to housing that violates city codes.
