City analyzing 421a plan while advocates call for end
Leave your thoughtsA top housing official for the de Blasio administration declined to say on Thursday whether the city’s 421a affordable housing…
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IDNYC: fuente de dignidad para miles
Leave your thoughtsSe puede palpar la emoción este mes en las comunidades inmigrantes pues los neoyorquinos, incluidos miles de inmigrantes indocumentados deseosos…
LI doesn’t have enough English classes for adult immigrants, study says
Leave your thoughtsThe adult immigrant population has continued to grow on Long Island and the rest of the state as the number…
Pols Call for Repeal of 421-A Real Estate Tax Break
Leave your thoughtsCouncil members and tenant advocates rallied outside City Hall this morning against the 421-A tax exemption, which was created in…
Star of Queens: Rehmat E. Khalid, volunteer, Make the Road New York
Leave your thoughtsBACKGROUND: Rehmat E. Khalid came to New York at the age of 22 from his hometown, Kashmir, with a bachelor’s…
PROTEST TO URGE THE SKELOS TO END SUBSIDIES TO NYC LUXURY DEVELOPERS
Leave your thoughtsLong Island residents, New York Communities for Change, Make The Road New York, and Long Island Progressive Coalition will implore…
Andrew Cuomo Proposal to Unify Education Measures Antagonizes Both Sides
Leave your thoughtsAndrew Cuomo (D-NY), governor of New York, managed to antagonize both the Democratic and Republican sides in his State of…
Tenant groups seeking an end to tax abatement program
Leave your thoughtsA coalition of tenant advocates plan to call for the end of a major tax abatement program that is both…
A Year After Suing Their Landlord, Brooklyn Tenants Still Lack Heat
Leave your thoughtsTwo weeks ago, a city housing inspector visited an apartment on the fourth floor of 940 Prospect Place in Brooklyn…
Immigrant advocates praise Cuomo ‘Dream Act’ proposal
Leave your thoughtsA small group of immigrant advocates gathered Wednesday to watch Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s State of the State speech at…