With the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) faced with years of federal, state and city funding cuts and growing deficits, the de Blasio administration released the NextGeneration NYCHA plan in May 2015. The plan calls for ways to increase operating and capital funds, improve housing maintenance and lease parcels of underutilized land in public housing to developers who … Continue reading Planners Network NYC Presents: The Future of Public Housing in New York →

Observatory on Latin America (OLA) | Global Urban Futures | Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) This two-part event will bring together New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, journalist and human rights advocate Horacio Verbitsky, urban and community planner Ron Shiffman, urbanist Eduardo Reese, urban rights specialist Edesio Fernandez, and Don D. Chen Director of … Continue reading Cities & Social Justice: Human Rights & Public Policy in the Americas →

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