theillinois.news rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. Adi Talwar The Williamsburg, Brooklyn cityscape Welcome to theillinois.news’…
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Opinion: Transit Riders Won Congestion Pricing. We Deserve To See It Happen
by Helen Thomasby Helen Thomas“With years of work, riders pried congestion pricing from a recalcitrant Albany. We intend to see the program fully and fairly rolled out next year. When congestion pricing is implemented,…
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After Spending Big, SuperPACs Failed to Beat New York Progressives for Senate Seats
by Helen Thomasby Helen ThomasBronx incumbent Gustavo Rivera and DSA-endorsed Kristen Gonzalez both seemed likely to prevail in their State Senate races, despite being targeted by SuperPACs that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars…
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By 6 p.m. Tuesday, 237,888 New York City residents had voted in the unusual August primary, where some neighborhoods were home to heated State Senate and Congressional races while others…
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It’s Primary Day—Again. Will New Yorkers Turn Up for an August Election?
by Helen Thomasby Helen ThomasThe legal battle over redistricting this year resulted in two primaries for New York, including Tuesday’s rare August contests for State Senate and Congress. theillinois.news spoke to city residents about…
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Opinion: Delivering New York’s Cannabis Promise as Licensing Begins
by Helen Thomasby Helen Thomas“For these licenses to serve their purpose, individuals who were targeted for arrest and prosecution must be first in line and have access to non-predatory resources and legal support to…
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City Watch: Planning Chief Dan Garodnick Talks Local Resistance to New Housing
by Helen Thomasby Helen Thomas“If everything…is just a question of ‘Does the local community support or not support it,’ the answer will almost, inevitably, always be ‘no,’ so it can’t just be that, it…
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¿Qué sigue después de que la Corte Suprema permitiera poner fin al programa Permanecer en México?
by Helen Thomasby Helen ThomasEn este episodio conversamos con Ariel Ruiz Soto, analista político del Migration Policy Institute o MPI (por sus siglas en inglés) y analizamos la decisión de la administración Biden de…
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Opinion: West Park Presbyterian and Rethinking Our Relationship with Landmarking
by Helen Thomasby Helen Thomas“It should be abundantly clear that the stamp of a landmark designation alone does not keep a building standing. If financial viability and structural integrity are in question, landmarking should…
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‘Innovation QNS’ Plan to Upzone Industrial Astoria on Life Support
by Helen Thomasby Helen ThomasThe question soon facing the City Council—and in particular, local member Julie Won—is how much affordable housing is enough to replace the Queens industrial scene with a complex three times…