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Behind New Yorkā€™s Housing Crisis: Weakened Laws and Fragmented Regulation

New York Times

Kim Barker


The assault began shortly after a new owner bought the building at 25 Grove Street in June 2015. Surveillance cameras arrived first, pointed at the doors to rent-regulated apartments. Then came the construction workers, who gutted empty units and sent a dust cocktail of lead-based paint, brick and...

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Rod Watson: Report underscores need to mandate affordable housing

The Buffalo News

Rod Watson


If city officials needed any more evidence that Buffalo needs an inclusionary zoning policy to ensure that low- and moderate-income renters arenā€™t priced out of the cityā€™s revival, the proof comes in a new report on the "rent affordability crisis" here and in the stateā€™s other large...

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Divesting from Big Oil a tough sell ā€” even in the bluest cities and states

Politico

Danielle Muoio


NEW YORK ā€” National environmental advocates flanked Bill de Blasio in January as the mayor announced the first steps toward stripping $5 billion in New York City pension fund investments from Big Oil. Fossil fuel corporations have profited from ā€œhorrible, disgustingā€ practices, de Blasio said, and New York has...

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