January 16, 2015
Location, Location, Location of NYC Affordable Housing
NYU’s Furman Center has released a white paper, Housing, Neighborhoods, and Opportunity: The Location of New York City’s Subsidized Affordable Housing. The report opens, Rent burdens for low- and moderate-income renters continue to grow in New York City, inviting calls … Continue reading
January 16, 2015 in New York City | Permalink | No Comments
December 17, 2014
Lawyering up for Housing Affordability
The New York City Independent Budget Office issued an estimate of the cost of providing “free legal representation to individuals with incomes at or below 125 percent of the federal poverty level who are facing eviction and foreclosure proceedings in … Continue reading
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December 12, 2014
Hockett on NYC Eminent Domain
Bob Hockett has posted ‘We Don’t Follow, We Lead’: How New York City Will Save Mortgage Loans by Condemning Them to SSRN. The abstract reads, This brief invited essay lays out in summary form the eminent domain plan for securitized … Continue reading
December 12, 2014 in New York City | Permalink | No Comments
November 26, 2014
Manufacturing Jobs in NYC
The New York City Council released a report, Engines of Opportunity: Reinvigorating New York City’s Manufacturing Zones for the 21st Century. I am always worried that discussions of increasing manufacturing jobs, especially in a city as expensive as New York, … Continue reading
November 26, 2014 in New York City | Permalink | No Comments
November 7, 2014
Reiss on Airbnb
MainStreet.com quoted me in Housing Activists Claim Airbnb Cuts Into Affordable Apartment Inventory in Manhattan. The story opens Popular and trendy neighborhoods in Manhattan accounted for 30% of units booked as private rentals on AirBnB.com, according to information subpoenaed by … Continue reading
November 7, 2014 in New York City | Permalink | No Comments
November 6, 2014
NYC’s Changing Neighborhood Demographics
The Citizens Housing Planning Council has released a cool interactive map of NYC, Making Neighborhoods. It “follows change across the city by putting people at the center of analysis. Our work measures and visualizes the movements of groups of New Yorkers … Continue reading
November 6, 2014 in New York City | Permalink | No Comments
October 8, 2014
Reiss on C-Span on Evolving Cities
C-Span has posted the footage from the Brooklyn Book Festival panel that I moderated: Planning and Protesting: Cities Evolve! With the city constantly evolving, each major project has its supporters and protesters. Authors Gregory Smithsimon and Benjamin Shepard (The Beach … Continue reading
October 8, 2014 in New York City | Permalink | No Comments
