#housing-injustice

#housing-injustice

The lawsuit was filed by Deshanae L. Brown, who alleges she was subjected to discrimination based on her race, sex, and disability, citing violations of federal and state laws including Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Simon Dudley described the Grenfell Tower fire as a tragedy but added that everyone dies in the end, which sparked outrage from Grenfell families and others.

The Covenant Homeownership Program provides a zero-interest secondary loan to help cover down payments and closing costs, widely viewed as the first explicitly race-conscious housing finance program of its kind.

"The landlord did not pay attention to this house whatsoever. We didn't even know we had a landlord."

How buildings are designed impacts people's lives every day. If every day you're living in a space where you can't use your home, that gnaws away at you.

My friends and I are early 30s professionals living in one of America's most expensive cities and making middle-class incomes. None of us can afford to buy or save for a home here. We all rent, but we're not broke. We save for kids and retirement and illness, but a home isn't in the cards. But recently, we think we might have found an unconventional loophole.

The report, published Tuesday, calls for NYCHA to keep better tabs on its vacant homes, the majority of which are awaiting-often extensive, and legally required-remediation work after the prior tenant moved out and before they can be rented again.

This is both a huge victory, getting vouchers into people's hands for the first time is an incredible win. But the crisis means we need much more. With a housing voucher, households typically spend 30 percent of their income on rent and the government pays the landlord the rest.

An analysis from the policy group New York Housing Conference shows owners of government-subsidized, or "affordable," housing filed more than a third of city's roughly 120,000 eviction lawsuits in 2024 - often as a way to pressure tenants into paying back rent or to compel the city to intervene with aid.

I was shocked at how vividly the contrast of the city's low and high density came to life when I visited the new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York. What the model most powerfully shows is that most of the city is actually a suburb of one and two-story buildings. The New York of our minds, towering structures and vast numbers of people, is really quite limited.