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November 27, 2023
Bribing Homeowners To Build Tiny Houses Won’t Solve NYC’s Housing Problem
…“affordable” units, the city should free homeowners to build small, cheap ADUs that are naturally affordable — because they’re small and cheap. Keep in mind that what may seem like…
November 13, 2023
How The IRS Discourages Boomer Charity
Americans like to call ourselves the most generous nation on earth — but charitable giving is on the decline. In 2022, it fell 3.4% (10.5% when adjusted for inflation) to fall…
November 9, 2023
What Dems — And NYC — Can Learn From The GOP’s Bronx City Council Win
…said would be a “national embarrassment” for Democrats. Here’s what even a moderate Dem like Torres doesn’t understand: Kristy Marmorato is right about affordable housing. New York City needs new…
November 3, 2023
A Postcard from Ashkelon
…nation, as a light unto the nations and a refuge. Ethel Levine was a school teacher, a symphony lover, a mother, of course, but as much as anything she was…
October 24, 2023
Roanoke Atones for Urban Renewal—Artistically
…more impressive. It deserves a grant to enable production of a formal exhibition catalog, along with a reproduction of the 1995 Roanoke Times section. It deserves to travel, including to the National…
October 13, 2023
Liberals Reap Consequences Of Their Homeless Policies
…because of Ronald Reagan turning his back on public housing. Indeed, the Martin v. Boise case, whose decision now protects the right to sleep outdoors, was argued by the Washington National Center…
October 12, 2023
Blue States Are Getting More Federal Money Than They Should
…cash welfare), the National School Lunch Program, water and sewer infrastructure, and education at the elementary and secondary levels. They include both “categorical” grants — that can be used for…
October 4, 2023
Variety Is the Spice
…East Side tenements, whose residents relied on public baths. We need not go that far, but lower-cost arrangements create natural affordability: more units on the same real estate. Adams would…
September 26, 2023
Voter Suppression, New York Style
…the idea out of concern about voter fraud. As Hochul sees it, they are continuing a national GOP voter suppression effort “against marginalized communities . . . under the pretense…
September 6, 2023
Why Staten Island seceding from NYC makes sense — for multiple reasons
…and other common interests can be best accomplished by united efforts and by forces directed from One united municipality.” Proponents also wanted to make sure the city was the nation’s…