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July 19, 2023
Adams’ Smart Migrant Move Could Help the City’s Overburdened Shelters—and Migrants Themselves
…and retail employees are advertised right now. It’s no secret Help Wanted signs are out all over America—nor that in the long run the nation needs more workers to support…
July 17, 2023
Biden Tries to Revive His Eviction Moratorium Through the Back Door
…dubious view that tenants nationally are at the mercy of oppressor landlords — and from taking backdoor steps through the federally chartered mortgage-finance companies to enforce this view. The regulation…
July 12, 2023
New York Rent Control: Could the End be Near?
…the nation’s largest city—and in other cities which have similar regulation. New York is the case study for the legislation’s unfortunate repercussions. Although rents are kept low by law, owners…
July 2, 2023
New York’s Quality of Life Budget: Focus on Improving Conditions for Everyday People First
…residents, rich and poor. Economists from the NYU Stern School, Columbia Business School and the National Bureau of Economic Research have set the context: declining commercial real estate property taxes…
June 24, 2023
City Can No Longer Afford Life-Long Subsidies for Lucky NYCHA Tenants
If the definition of insanity involves doing the same thing repeatedly and hoping for a different result, maybe the long-troubled New York City Housing Authority, the nation’s largest, isn’t entirely…
June 14, 2023
Housing in America: A Profectus Roundtable
…the past but equivalent to what subsidized tenants pay. Overall, Americans spend 28.5 percent of income on housing. These are reasonable figures. The goal of the National Housing Act of…
May 23, 2023
Public Housing Should Have Work Rules, Too
…contrast, a handful of public-housing authorities—including Chicago and Atlanta, two of the nation’s biggest—have had work requirements for more than a decade. They’ve been among a small group of local…
May 12, 2023
Follow the Money as Hochul Floats Tobacco Ban While Pushing Legal Marijuana
…$5.85 — is the nation’s highest. It’s led to declining adult use. Yet even if no cigarettes were sold legally in New York the state will continue to receive a…
May 1, 2023
Here’s How Hochul Can Salvage Her Goal of More Affordable Housing in NY
…and firefighters can’t find a place they can afford in the towns they serve as they once did. These situations cry out for “missing middle” or “naturally occurring affordable housing”:…