“In the 50 years since the Equal Credit Opportunity Act became law, so much has changed: women are home buyers, can open credit cards and despite a persistent gender wage gap, are able to accumulate wealth. But for survivors of domestic violence, the vast majority of whom experience economic abuse, so much remains the same.”
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Opinion: New York City’s Young People Need Spaces of Their Own
Molly Delano |
“By engaging students in conducting research and advocacy in the process of creating and running programs, and maintaining the street itself, schools can turn Open School Streets into canvases for students to reimagine what their communities can and should look like.”
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Opinion: Mayor Should Halt 60-Day Shelter Limits & Protect Vulnerable Families
Pierina Ana Sanchez and Rita Joseph |
“The 60-day shelter limit runs counter to the very purpose of shelters: to keep vulnerable homeless families and individuals safe and off the streets.”
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Opinion: Pass the Access to Representation Act So No One Has to Fight Deportation Alone
Bruneth Flores |
“My search for legal representation was exhausting. I visited 16 different attorneys before I was able to secure representation. Each denial delivered a wave of hopelessness as I felt the looming 12-month deadline to apply for asylum inch closer and closer.”
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Opinion: What the Workout of the Signature Bank Loans Can Teach About Preserving Affordable Housing
Michael Lappin |
“Will the Signature buildings be viewed as a one-off, or the tip of an iceberg of a more endemic problem?”
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Opinion: Working New Yorkers Need ‘Good Cause’ Eviction
Stuart Appelbaum |
“Our elected leaders have come out strong in support of our efforts to fight for fair compensation and decent working conditions for our members on the streets and at the bargaining table. But the gains that we have won are steadily being eroded by the skyrocketing cost of housing.”
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Opinion: Stop Insurance Carriers From Discriminating Against Affordable Housing
Rachel Fee |
“Our findings also show jarring evidence that insurance carriers blatantly discriminate against affordable housing projects, in some cases completely refusing to provide coverage to homes just based on where they are located.”
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Opinion: Raising Taxes on NY’s Wealthy is the Right—and Popular—Thing to Do
Leslie McCall |
“Not only are such increases necessary to secure investments in badly needed and widely desired public goods like education, health care, and housing, the costs of which are likely the driving factor behind the worrisome out-migration of working and middle class New Yorkers.”
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Opinion: Pass the Full NY HEAT Act in This Year’s Budget
Alex Beauchamp |
“As our planet hurtles toward climate tipping points, beyond which climate chaos is irreversible, every dollar we spend on fossil fuels today takes us backwards.”
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Opinion: As Congestion Pricing Approaches, QueensLink Must Move Forward
Andrew Lynch, Noelle Hunter and Jasper von Seeburg |
Whether in Ozone Park, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, Forest Hills, or Rego Park, the sentiment was the same: parks are great, but transit is needed more. If there is the opportunity for both, all the better.
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Opinion: Don’t Bail Out New York’s Rent Stabilized Buildings —Yet
Ben Carlos Thypin |
“The rent stabilized building bubble will persist as long as there are greater fools to cash out bad bets. If Albany bails out this market now, with bad data and before the market has started to price buildings properly, they risk turning taxpayers into the greatest fools of all.”