The roundup from City Limits discusses various local news topics revolving around housing, land use, and homelessness in NYC. Key issues include reports of housing application denials due to criminal records and the necessity for educational initiatives by the CCHR to enforce housing rights. The Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act is highlighted as a means to create affordable housing on underused religious properties. Supportive housing, along with essential on-site services, is also emphasized as crucial for long-term resident stability. Additionally, the unremarkable housing plan from mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo drew attention for its poorly articulated components.
We've already received reports of denials [of housing applications] based on conviction records, highlighting the urgent need for proactive education that a properly funded CCHR could provide. Without sufficient resources, the CCHR's inability to effectively educate and enforce the FCHA will have dire consequences.
It's clear we need to prove to New Yorkers that new housing in their neighborhoods will strengthen communities. We can do so by passing the Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act. Under this bill, churches, synagogues, mosques and other faith-based institutions would be able to override local zoning rules to construct affordable housing on their underused land.
Supportive housing offers on-site services like psychiatric care, medication management and case management - services that are essential for keeping residents housed long-term. SROs are a cost-effective, scalable model that could provide immediate relief for those who desperately need a stable place to live.
Mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo's housing plan released on Saturday is "fairly unremarkable" except for the garbled part about appointing "Rent Guidelines Board members who will make decisions bbjectively" (sic) - that appears to have been written with the help of ChatGPT.
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