The $12 Billion Hole: Who Decides How New York Pays for Itself?
The $12 Billion Hole: Who Decides How New York Pays for Itself? – A budget gap, a governor facing re-election and the limits of a city that cannot set its own taxes
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A Million Homes, Zero Increase: What the Rent Freeze Means for 2.4 Million New Yorkers
A Million Homes, Zero Increase: What the Rent Freeze Means for 2.4 Million New Yorkers – The Rent Guidelines Board’s June vote delivered the campaign promise tenants were told was impossible
Housing as an Asset Class: What a Condo Slump in Cebu Tells Us About Homes Everywhere
Housing as an Asset Class: What a Condo Slump in Cebu Tells Us About Homes Everywhere – From Manhattan’s empty towers to Mactan’s half-sold ones, the logic that turns shelter into a speculative instrument produces the same anxiety and the same winners
2-K Arrives, but Universal Child Care Does Not: Reading Albany’s Compromise
2-K Arrives, but Universal Child Care Does Not: Reading Albany’s Compromise – New York City gets a new programme for two-year-olds and an expanded 3-K, while the workforce that delivers it is left without a funding guarantee
La Marqueta and the Politics of Groceries: What a City-Run Supermarket Is, and Is Not
La Marqueta and the Politics of Groceries: What a City-Run Supermarket Is, and Is Not – The first of five public stores is planned for East Harlem by the end of 2029, with rent and real estate taxes waived and a third party running the shelves
A $200 Cheque Is Not an Energy Policy: Albany’s Utility Rebates and Who They Reach
A $200 Cheque Is Not an Energy Policy: Albany’s Utility Rebates and Who They Reach – About 8.2 million New Yorkers will receive up to $200 this fall, with the amounts set by income tax filing status rather than by the size of anyone’s bill
The Pied-a-Terre Tax: How Albany Finally Asked Absentee Owners to Pay
The Pied-a-Terre Tax: How Albany Finally Asked Absentee Owners to Pay – A surcharge on luxury second homes in New York City takes effect July 1, with Ken Griffin’s Central Park South apartment as the case study