Each Friday, City Limits rounds up the latest news on housing, land use and homelessness. Catch up on what you might have missed here.
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Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Adolfo Carrión, pictured here at a press briefing in 2023, is the city’s new deputy mayor for housing and economic development.
Welcome to “What Happened in NYC Housing This Week?” where we compile the latest local news about housing, land use and homelessness. Know of a story we should include in next week’s roundup? Email us.
ICYMI, from City Limits:
Mayor Eric Adams appointed a new deputy mayor for housing, after the previous one resigned.
A report from the NYC Comptroller Brad Lander identified hundreds of building where complaints about lack of heat and hot water have persisted for years. Lander—who is among the growing list of candidates running for mayor this year—pledged to crack down on landlords who don’t comply with heat requirements if elected to City Hall.
The city is ending an initiative that provided short-term hotel room stays to migrants and asylum-seekers when other shelter options were full, citing the declining number of new arrivals in the system in recent months.
A new City Council bill wants to regulate mega-warehouses for e-commerce companies like Amazon, which they say brings truck traffic and pollution to already overburdened neighborhoods.
ICYMI, from other local newsrooms:
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in 2022 following multiple allegations of sexual harassment, is now running for New York City mayor. But questions have risen about his residency. Gothamist spoke to neighbors at the luxury Manhattan building where Cuomo says he’s lived since the fall.
A senior housing proposal in Brooklyn will the first project to take advantage of a quicker city approval process that aims to fast-track environmentally friendly development, The City reported.
New York Times’ columnist Ginia Bellafante examines the impact of the city’s involuntary removal process for mentally ill homeless New Yorkers.
Here’s the latest plan to build housing around Penn Station, per CBS News.
You can test your home drinking water for free with a test kit from the city, Brick Underground explains.
WNYC’s Brian Lehrer looks at how federal cuts could impact housing.
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