Harry DiPrinzio
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New York, NY, United States
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City's Housing Data Drop: Longer Shelter Stays. More Permanent Housing. NYCHA Rent Collection Lags.
The 2019 Mayor's Management Report was full of interesting and esoteric statistics from the city’s various agencies. → Read More
Housing Update: Sanders' Housing Plan Incorporates Ideas from NYC
Plus, a lifeline for senior housing, a glut in luxury condos and reports of ‘good faith’ deposits. → Read More
How to Care for Your NYC Street Tree, and Strengthen Democracy
A reader recently asked about an ailing tree on her block. She had reported it to the city but nothing was happening. What could she do? → Read More
Housing Update: Jersey City will add as many apartments as all of Manhattan in 2019
Plus: Restaurants are feeling the pain from ever-increasing rental rates, Rep. Nadler weighs in on NYCHA demolition plan. → Read More
Council Could Try to Force City to Boost Value of Homeless Vouchers
The city's voucher system has moved tens of thousands of homeless people into housing. But many linger in shelters because the voucher won't pay enough to cover the rent. → Read More
Housing Update: Private Equity Firm Keeping Affordable Apartments Off the Market
Plus: A proposal for hotel regulation and the influence of hotel-industry cash, landlords blowing past fee limits and a push for rent regulation in Rochester. → Read More
Housing Update: City Lagging on Shelter Construction
Plus, criticism of NYCHA's general manager, details on a building collapse, concerns about a major nonprofit and other housing stories you might have missed this week. → Read More
NYC to Get New Hub for Locally Grown Food
The new Bronx distribution facility for regional food will boost supply and potentially lower price, backers say. → Read More
Housing Update: City Cracks Down on Illegal Airbnbs
The housing stories you might have missed this week. → Read More
At NYCHA's Fulton Houses, A Bitter Divide Over the Future of the Development
At the Fulton Houses, activists and residents are fighting a proposal to demolish two buildings and allow a private developer to build market-rate apartments. But NYCHA says the plan is the only way to raise funds to make desperately-needed repairs. → Read More
Housing Update: State Officers to Engage Homeless in Subway
The housing stories you might have missed this week. → Read More
Hundreds of NYCHA Evictions Raise Questions About Process
The cash-strapped authority needs to collect rent. But there are concerns about lagging repairs, vulnerable tenants and a new program that's spurred a spike in evictions. → Read More
Housing Update: Anti-RAD Organizers are Growing
Sign up for our Mapping the Future newsletter to receive housing updates—including the latest news, statistics, tools for tenants and homeowners and affordable-rental lotteries—in your inbox weekly. Here are some of the headlines from this week’s update: From City Limits: A state Supreme Court ruled against four proposed high-rises in Two Bridges on Thursday. The plans for the towers will now… → Read More
Housing Update: Landlords’ Use of ‘Preferential Rents’ Draws New Scrutiny
News about rezonings, third-party transfer, NYCHA and more. → Read More
In Bushwick, (and the City) Families are the Majority of the Homeless
Families and homeless students makeup the majority of homeless people living in Bushwick. 1,039 of the neighborhood’s 1,462 shelter residents (71 percent) lived in family shelters in April. → Read More
Housing Update: Landlord Lawsuit Challenges Entire Stabilization System
The housing news you might have missed this week. → Read More
Longtime Homeless-led Organization Say it May Shut Doors
Picture the Homeless, a homeless-led grassroots organization is raising money to keep the doors open. → Read More
10 NYCHA Senior Centers to Remain Open
Funding was restored to 10 senior centers at NYCHA buildings that were slated to close, due to budget cuts. → Read More
Housing Update: New Worries About Children in Lead-Tainted Apartments
Beyond My Ken A view of the Dyckman Houses of the New York City Housing Authority, from the parking lot of the New Leaf restaurant in Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan. Sign up for our Mapping the Future newsletter to receive housing updates—including the latest news, statistics, tools for tenants and homeowners and affordable-rental lotteries—in your inbox weekly. Here are some of the… → Read More
You Asked, We Answered: Prostitution Rules, MTA Ridership and School Diversity
What rules do the proponents for legalizing prostitution have in mind? How can I get racial demographics for Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island School Districts? → Read More