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December 11, 2023
How Public Housing Encourages Single Parenthood and Penalizes Marriage
…data from HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research, median income per person in public and subsidized housing is just $8,000 today, and 77 % of tenants are classified as “lowest-income”…
December 4, 2023
Post-Prohibition Pot Regulation: Should It Be More Like Tobacco?
…to hearing Bulgarian, Chinese, Russian and even Hebrew spoken at the grocery store.” What’s more, large numbers of localities — the majority in California and New York — have chosen…
November 9, 2023
What Dems — And NYC — Can Learn From The GOP’s Bronx City Council Win
…are all mixed, they are black, Spanish, Indian,” she said. “I feel sad because why they doing this, I don’t understand.” That’s how a Republican can win in a district…
October 24, 2023
Roanoke Atones for Urban Renewal—Artistically
…in movie-still-like action: Doctor Brooks of the Brooks Drug Store on Henry Street, the owners of Louise and Lillian’s Beauty salon, Big Nick of Weeby’s Groceries, and more. Shadow and…
August 5, 2023
Rent Control ‘Shabbifying’ NY’s Housing As Owners Feel the Squeeze
…disappeared. The difference between median regulated rents ($1,400) and unregulated rents ($1,825) is not nearly as great as protestors would have folks think. And the rising vacancy rate suggests market…
July 30, 2023
26 Miles of Scaffolding Blights NYC’s Public Housing, Some Up for 10 Years
No New York pedestrian would disagree with Eric Adam’s characterization of the city’s ubiquitous sidewalk sheds at stalled construction sites as “ugly little green boxes.” But his targeting of private…
July 25, 2023
Not Just Tulsa
…as the setting for playwright August Wilson’s greatest plays, such as Fences and Jitney and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. (Wilson’s home is preserved today, but the neighborhood is gone). As Brian Robick wrote in…
July 13, 2023
The Test Isn’t the Problem
…exam schools, such as Stuyvesant High School, have been a particular blessing for Asian students, many from low-income immigrant families, who make up 83 percent of the student body. By contrast,…
June 24, 2023
City Can No Longer Afford Life-Long Subsidies for Lucky NYCHA Tenants
…not just for those of lowest-income. This mixed-income approach overlooks an essential truth about housing markets: New construction of any kind increases overall supply and brings down median prices. Releasing…
May 12, 2023
Follow the Money as Hochul Floats Tobacco Ban While Pushing Legal Marijuana
…ban in place. Of course, New Yorkers would be free to buy their smokes in other states or on Indian reservations. And we could expect the same sort of black…