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WEBCash Assistance Recipients Navigate Revived Work Requirements, As City Processing Times Tick Up. Advocates worry that the reinstated rules will inevitably lead to some New Yorkers losing the aid they rely on to make ends meet, especially in the face of a steep rise in the number of people getting the assistance—alongside increased ...
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Every NYC Tenant Has Access to Housing Court Lawyer, as Eviction ...
WEBNov 18, 2021 · Roughly 71 percent of New York City tenants facing eviction received help from an attorney in Housing Court in April, May and June—the last three months of the 2021 fiscal year—according to a new report published Wednesday by the Human Resources Administration (HRA). The agency found that 42,265 New York City households were represented by or got support from a city-funded lawyer in the ...
NYC’s New Housing Voucher Rules Will Drastically Expand Income ...
WEBNov 1, 2021 · The decision marks a significant adjustment to a new law that increased the value of CityFHEPS vouchers but capped renewal eligibility at 250 percent of the federal poverty line—equal to just $32,200 for a single adult and just under $55,000 for a family of three. Though recipients and their advocates celebrated the voucher boost, many warned ...
NYC Opens 300-Household Intake Shelter for Asylum Seekers in …
WEBSep 30, 2022 · New York City is opening its latest checkpoint for recently arrived immigrants, this time converting a hotel near Madison Square Garden into an intake and assessment center with rooms for nearly 300 families and single adults, City Limits has learned. Adi Talwar. The Stewart Hotel in Midtown …
NYC2036? How the 2012 Olympics Bid Reshaped New York City
WEBAug 9, 2021 · The NYC2012 attempt faltered, but plans to reshape huge swaths of the city to accommodate brand new sporting venues—and, later, transformative residential projects—swiftly crossed the finish line, buoyed by Olympic fervor and a time-bound bid for the Games. The ongoing development in Long Island City’s Hunters Point, site of …
Opinion: Budget Cuts to City Parks This Year Will Worsen Decades …
WEBAug 21, 2020 · Since the 1970’s fiscal crisis, DPR’s staffing headcount dropped from more than 11,600 to just over 7,600, and over the past four decades, expense spending on parks decreased from 1.3 percent of the overall city budget to just more than .6 percent, a 2018 report from the Center for an Urban Future found. This year the city cut almost $85 million from DPR’s budget, accounting for 14 ...
NYCHA Plan to Put Units Under Private Management is More Than …
WEBApr 4, 2023 · More than 36,000 NYCHA apartments have either undergone conversion or are in the process of being converted to the RAD-PACT program, which officials say has helped drive billions in needed repairs. But tenants—some of whom will get a chance to vote this year on whether they want their developments to join the initiative—remain distrustful of the change.
It’s Not Just Manhattan: Rents Are Still Rising Across NYC - City …
WEBSep 13, 2022 · The citywide median rent increase compiled by StreetEasy over the past three years outpaced the rise in gross rent—rent plus utilities—in non-regulated apartments over the entire decade between 2009 and 2019, according to data from New York University’s Furman Center.The median gross rent citywide in that span rose by 16.3 percent in 2021 dollars, the Furman Center found.
NYCHA Gets Nod for Work to 'Connect' Communities - City Limits
WEBOct 6, 2020 · Last month, NYCHA was named a 2020 WellBeing Cities Forum Laureate for its Connected Communities Guidebook, a manifesto for how to engage NYCHA communities in redesigning the 2,400 acres of open space that exist on public-housing campuses in New York. NYCHA chairman Gregory Russ called Connected Communities “a powerful initiative that ...
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