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Massive overdevelopment and warehousing apartments for the wealthy were killing New York even before the pandemic. So why are none of the mayoral candidates talking about that?

The legislation is unlikely to pass, but represents a shift in the city's urban planning strategy.

Michael Friedrich: Atlanta’s land trust shows how to create affordable housing Nonprofits that buy land, build homes and sell below market rate are giving low-income homebuyers a chance (Monica Garwood | The New York Times) By Michael Friedrich | Special to The New York Times   | April 19, 2021, 3:43 p.m. | Updated: 4:08 p.m. If anyone knows how gentrification has displaced Black working-class residents in Atlanta, it’s Makeisha Robey, a preschool teacher. During her two decades living in the city, she has watched affordable apartment complexes vanish as new developments arise and weal...

Affordable Housing Forever Nonprofits that purchase land, build homes on it and sell them below market rate are giving low-income buyers a chance. By Michael Friedrich April 15, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit...Monica Garwood If anyone knows how gentrification has displaced Black working-class residents in Atlanta, it’s Makeisha Robey, a preschool teacher. During her two decades living in the city, she has watched affordable apartment complexes vanish as new developments arise and wealthier, white residents move in. After being priced out of renting in a series of neighborhoods, Ms. Robey, a 43-...

The Dance Centre will showcase online performances in the lead up to International Dance Day on April 29. “We would say it isn’t David and Goliath,” Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of the organization Uprose, told The Tyee. “It was David and five Goliaths.” But when Jamestown Properties withdrew its application for the Brooklyn rezoning this fall, effectively killing the project in the neighbourhood of Sunset Park, several things had become clear: the company had severely underestimated the power of a low-income neighbourhood determined to prevent housing from becoming unaf...