Urban Studies
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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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Brooklyn Youth Create Jobs (and Community Roots) Through Local Compost Program
This article was originally featured at YES! Magazine. By Rebecca Nathanson Snow covered most of the ground at El Garden, a community garden in the north Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. The exception was the area around its three compost bins, shoveled out and made accessible to the six people who were working there. One of…
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Bringing Neighborhoods Wealth — Not Gentrification
By Marjorie Kelly and Sarah McKinley This article was originally featured at Yes! Magazine and adapted from Cities Building Community Wealth, a project of The Democracy Collaborative, for New Economy Week. In cities across the nation, a few enjoy rising affluence while many struggle to get by. An August 2015 study by The Century Foundation reported that—after…
