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De Blasio’s mandatory inclusionary housing program: what is wrong, and how it can be made right

Inclusionary zoning provides an incentive, or a mandate, to real-estate developers to include lower-rent units in new housing. One signature proposal of New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has been a mandatory inclusionary housing program, known as MIH, enacted

KOBER: The way out of New York’s crunch is supply-side housing policy

BY ERIC KOBER Even as employment grows rapidly, New York City remains stubbornly slow to build new housing. Annual average wage and salary employment in New York was 4.081 million in 2015 and, preliminarily, 4.379 million in 2018, a 7.3

Gentrification for social justice?

BY KAY HYMOWITZ For many on the left, gentrification remains a dirty word, synonymous — or at least closely associated — with racism, oligarchic developers, neoliberalism, and even genocide. Fortunately, not all gentrification-watchers are so dystopic. Less excitable observers harbor reasonable concerns about poor residents forced

Peoples-Stokes will shape housing legislation this session

The newly ascendant Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes is expected to play a key role in housing legislation that is expected early this session. Agencies like the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority, have

Giambra will ‘phase-out’ rent control laws to solve NYC housing shortage

Plan will make market rents more affordable, introduce a Renters’ Tax Credit Gubernatorial contender Joel Giambra, the former two-term Erie County Executive, is pledging to end New York City’s decades-long housing crisis – promising to make the City more affordable