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Issue 1 — Housing
In this first issue, NY2044 looks at the horizon, farther into, and perhaps beyond, the current housing crisis. Our correspondents are deeply involved in solving it, and living it. Sam Stein, a housing policy researcher whose work on social housing and rent regulation has shaped the debate for years, imagines a New York State that stops waiting for the market and starts buying. Jenny Dubnau, a painter and longtime housing activist whose work is inseparable from her politics, reports from inside a reclaimed supertall — a tower that squatters turned into a community before the city caught up. Monxo López, curator at the Museum of the City of New York and co-founder of the Mott Haven Community Land Trust, envisions a Bronx that has turned its flood vulnerability into a mandate for land justice. Together, these correspondents paint a city learning — slowly, contentiously, and with enormous stakes — to treat housing as infrastructure rather than investment.
No Questions Asked
10 billion dollar war chest
Abandoned Tower Becomes First in Housing Takeover
Hunger Strike Ushers in Era of Supportive Housing
No Questions Asked
One year after securing expanded powers, NYC Housing Czar Jex Radbone is overseeing a renaissance in affordable housing. Gone are the days of endless paperwork and bureaucratic hurdles. “You need…
10 billion dollar war chest
In the latest push to provide housing to New Yorkers who have long been shut out of the housing market, New York State is going on a massive buying spree….
Section 9 Expands With Bipartisan Support
In a once-unthinkable display of bipartisan cooperation, Republicans and Democrats have joined forces to spearhead bold housing legislation. And this time, they’ve managed to save public housing in the state….
A political earthquake has struck the Bronx. In a landslide victory, the Land Party, a progressive political movement organized by the Mott Haven Community Land Trust, swept the borough’s recent…
Forget skyrocketing prices. Forget property ownership as a path to generational wealth. In today’s New York City, homeownership means stability, not investment. A decade of progressive legislation is now bearing…
Public Housing Incubator Retains Control Of Cleaning Bot Patent
In a David vs. Goliath court case, a public housing initiative in New York City has emerged victorious from a legal battle against Amazon Robotics. Project Helping Hands, a resident-led…
Forgotten Borough Now Poised for Transformation as High-Speed Rail Connects to Manhattan
After decades of lagging behind housing density in the other boroughs, Staten Island is on the cusp of a major transformation. This week marks the long-awaited inauguration of the Staten…
Abandoned Tower Becomes First in Housing Takeover
For over a decade, it stood as a symbol of broken dreams, one of many unfinished luxury supertall skyscrapers towering over Brooklyn and Queens, its skeletal frame choked by weeds…
The Fair Share Housing Reality In New York
Blanche Rootbeam’s morning coffee routine has taken on a new dimension. Every day, 70-year-old Rootbeam shares a cup with Anala Babu, her 22-year-old neighbor, who, along with her girlfriend Sally,…
Food Delivery System Crashes Into Stages Of Life Building’s “Kiddy Cubbies”
Old and young, speakers of dozens of languages, of comfortable or modest means, they all looked out of their windows two evenings ago and saw what no New Yorker wants…
Remember when Adams was re-elected for his third term? It was a low point for the city—an era remembered for its rent gouging, casino construction, and abandoned supertall towers. But…
Read More “A Teacher’s Tower, Courtesy the City’s Worst Landlord” »
Hunger Strike Ushers in Era of Supportive Housing
Inmates Secure Victory After Month-Long Protest, City Announces Plans for Transformative Re-Use In a groundbreaking move, New York City has agreed to permanently close the infamous “jailscraper” in Chinatown, following…
Protestors flooded the opulent gold-plated entrance of the Kushner Casino in Brooklyn this morning, covering the lobby with old mattresses. They also pulled the electronic gambling “pokies” out of the…
Read More “Protestors Shut Down Brooklyn’s Largest Casino As Flood Waters Rise” »
Famed Hospital of the AIDS Crisis to Become Supportive Housing
In a poignant return to its roots, the former St. Vincent’s Hospital in the heart of the West Village will support New Yorkers experiencing homelessness. This groundbreaking move comes after…
Read More “West Village Owners Bow To Intergenerational Pressure” »
