Baaba Halm News Today

City Limits’ Deputy Editor Emma Whitford recently sat down with Baaba Halm, vice president and New York market leader at the housing nonprofit Enterprise Community Partners, for a conversation about voucher programs.

A new plan unveiled this month aims to make way for new housing and ease the pressures that drive up rents and home prices. Whether it will work is less clear.

Advocates had hoped Adams would kick off his first term by appointing a deputy mayor for housing and homelessness. Jessica Katz was the next best thing, they say.

NYCHA's Preservation Trust board so far includes three city housing officials, two tenants association presidents and the head of a nonprofit.

The recently established New York City Housing Authority “Preservation Trust,” designed to unlock billions of dollars in sorely needed federal funds to fix up

Readers react to a guest essay extolling the benefits of walking. Also: Ex-inmates’ re-entry into society; a Disney film banned in a Florida school.

An op-ed in Gotham Gazette calls on the state legislature to enact a housing assistance program that could help tens of thousands of residents stay in their homes.

Gotham Gazette is an online publication covering New York policy and politics as well as news on public safety, transportation, education, finance and more.

Thursday night, the same day Mayor Eric Adams unveiled a preliminary budget focused on "fiscal discipline" and two days after Gov. Kathy Hochul laid out her priorities for the year ahead in her State of the State speech, 70,525 people slept in a New York City Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelter.

Brooklyn: If the Daily News still ran its beloved and greatly missed Critters column, the paper would be able to inform its readers about safely relocating feral cats.