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  • Flushing Re-zoning: a Threat to Affordable Housing?

    Flushing Re-zoning: a Threat to Affordable Housing?

    In yesterday’s Gotham Gazette, Murphy Adjunct Professor Sam Stein, along with CUNY Professor Tarry Hum, wrote an op-ed about the “under the radar” re-zoning of an area some are calling “Flushing West” (Flushing’s Affordable Housing at Risk, 5/2/16). According to Stein and Hum, this re-zoning threatens to destroy existing affordable housing by incentivizing real estate…

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