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Met Council head Ava Farkas speaks against rezoning plan at rally in Inwood Aug. 6.
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  • September 2016

Inwood Residents Win Rezoning Fight, Now Face Bigger Plan

by Steven Wishnia Issue September 2016

Some 300 people packed the corner of Broadway and Sherman Avenue on Aug. 15, a steaming evening on the blocks where….

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  • June 2016

Study Finds Two-Thirds of City Losing Ground

by Steven Wishnia Issue June 2016

New York City is rapidly losing its ability to house low-income people, the Community Service Society said in a report….

Brooklyn’s Beach Haven complex, formerly owned by the Trump family. Photo by Steven Wishnia
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  • June 2016

Trump: The Art of Housing Segregation

by Steven Wishnia Issue June 2016

Donald Trump’s record of racism goes well beyond the loudmouth bigotry of his rants against Mexicans and Muslims. His family’s….

Protest against rezoning in East New York. Photos by Steven Wishnia.
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  • May 2016

East New York Faces Rezoning

by Steven Wishnia Issue May 2016

East New York became the first neighborhood to be rezoned for Mayor Bill de Blasio’s mandatory inclusionary zoning plan on….

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  • May 2016

Affordable Housing: No Unions Need Apply

by Steven Wishnia Issue May 2016

One group that is definitely not happy with the de Blasio affordable housing program is the city’s construction unions. The….

Gary LaBarbera, head of the city’s construction unions, speaks at a housing rally in February. Photo by Steven Wishnia.
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  • May 2016

De Blasio Housing Plan Two Years In: Ambitious, but Not Much for Lower Incomes

by Steven Wishnia Issue May 2016

Two years after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his plans to build 80,000 units of affordable housing and “preserve” another….

Croman tenant Cynthia Chaffee appears at rally in 2014. Photo by Steven Wishnia
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  • May 2016

Croman Arrested!

by Steven Wishnia Issue May 2016

Manhattan landlord Steve Croman, whose harassment of tenants in the more than 140 buildings he owns has made him notorious….

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  • April 2016

Trump: El arte de la segregación de vivienda

by Steven Wishnia Issue April 2016

El historial del racismo de Donald Trump va mucho más allá de la intolerancia pendenciera de sus arengas en contra….

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  • April 2016

How Rent-Stabilized Tenants Foiled Donald Trump

by Steven Wishnia Issue April 2016

Donald Trump thought he’d scored a windfall when he purchased two buildings on Sixth Avenue and Central Park South in….

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  • April 2016

Cómo inquilinos de alquiler estabilizado hicieron fracasar a Donald Trump

by Steven Wishnia Issue April 2016

Donald Trump creía que había hecho suyas riquezas inesperadas cuando compró dos edificios en la Sexta Avenida y Central Park….

Garbage piled in the back yard of 118 E. 4th St. last year.
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  • April 2016

Trump’s Son-In-Law Reaps Fruit of Harassment

by Steven Wishnia Issue April 2016

Donald Trump would need hands the size of backhoes to clean up the garbage behind one of his son-in-law’s East….

Union workers formed a large part of the crowd outside City Hall Feb. 23. Photo: Steven Wishnia.
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  • March 2016

Construction Workers Prominent at Housing Protest

by Steven Wishnia Issue March 2016

Chanting “Get up, get down, New York’s a union town” while being dusted with a cold drizzle, several hundred people….

888 Grand Concourse tenants meet. Photo courtesy of CASA.
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  • March 2016

Grand Concourse Tenants Go on Rent Strike

by Steven Wishnia Issue March 2016

Tenants at 888 Grand Concourse in the Bronx went on rent strike Feb. 1, after years of problems with broken….

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  • March 2016

Stringer Says City Could Use Hundreds of Vacant Lots for Housing

by Steven Wishnia Issue March 2016

The city of New York owns more than 1,100 vacant lots that could be used to build “thousands of units”….

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  • March 2016

¿Es el plan de vivienda de De Blasio realmente ‘asequible’?

by Steven Wishnia Issue March 2016

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