Rezoning References, News, and Events

  1. What is Zoning?  A super handy guidebook made by the Center for Urban Pedagogy
  2. DeBlasio’s Doomed Housing Plan (Fall 2014)
  3. Making Room for Housing and Jobs: A report by the Pratt Center for Community Development that examines how rezoning industrial areas to provide space for housing may undermine housing affordability if high-wage industrial jobs are replaced with low-wage jobs in retailing and neighborhood services. (May 4, 2015)
  4. Chinatown Zoning Plan Meets Resistance in DeBlasio Adminstration (Sept. 2015)
  5. Only 3,000 of de Blasio’s 20,000 affordable housing units are permanent (Oct. 2015)
  6. Here’s what you need to know about the Mayor’s citywide rezoning plan (Dec. 1, 2015)
  7. Will the City’s Rezoning Plan for East Harlem Heed Community’s Vision? (December 22, 2015)
  8. DeBlasio Housing Chief Rebuts Critics of East New York Plan (Jan. 7, 2016)
  9. DeBlasio Housing Plan Hung Up on Distrust as Much as on Details (Jan 14, 2016)
  10. DeBlasio’s Controversial Rezoning Plan Approved by Planning Commission (Feb. 3, 2016)
  11. Advocacy Group Pitches Plan for NYC Homeless Housing (Feb. 5, 2016)
  12. Why Bill’s zoning plan is in trouble (Feb. 6, 2016)
  13. DeBlasio Pushed to Include Local Jobs in Neighborhood Rezonings (Feb. 8, 2016)
  14. At Council Hearing on DeBlasio’s Housing Plan, Many Voices Rise (Feb. 9, 2016)
  15. The 10 Concerns Councilmembers Had About Mayor’s Inclusionary Housing Proposal (Feb. 9, 2016)
  16. City Council Fears Broken Promises, Gentrification With DeBlasio’s Rezoning Plan (Feb. 9, 2016)
  17. Progressive Caucus Priorities for MIH and ZQA (Feb. 10, 2016)
  18. Why DeBlasio’s Housing Plan is Nowhere Near Affordable for Low- and Middle-Wage New Yorkers (Feb. 16, 2016)
  19. For East New York’s Housing Crunch, Supply is Not the Solution (Feb. 18, 2016)
  20. The Secret History of AMI (Feb. 17, 2016).
  21. DeBlasio opposes City Council plan to protect tenants from slumlords over fear it will harm his push for affordable housing (Feb. 22, 2016).
  22. Groups Promise Civil Disobedience if Mayor’s Zoning Plan Isn’t Changed (Feb. 23, 2014)
  23. Four Wrong Ideas Driving DeBlasio’s Housing Plan by Susanna Blankely, Director of CASA! (Feb. 24, 2017)
  24. Hundreds of Protesters Rally Against DeBlasio’s Affordable Housing Plan (Feb. 24, 2014)
  25. Controversial East New York Rezoning Plan Approved by City Planning Commission (Feb. 24, 2016)
  26. The East Harlem Neighborhood Plan Final Report (released Feb. 24, 2016)
  27. Interactive Map of Mayor de Blasio’s Neighborhood Rezonings (Feb. 24, 2016)
  28. As Rezoning Looms, East Harlem Groups Craft Preemptive Plan (Feb. 25, 2016)
  29. Williamsburg warns East New York about Industrial-Strength Gentrification (March 8, 2016)
  30. Critics cancel protest against de Blasio’s zoning bid citing progress (March 9, 2016)
  31. The Whitening of New York City (March 10, 2016)
  32. Study behind signature de Blasio affordable-housing proposal comes under fire (March 11, 2016)
  33. De Blasio’s Toughest Affordable Housing Critics Reverse Their Position (March 14, 2016)
  34. Council Committees OK rezoning plan some fear would encourage segregation (March 17, 2016).
  35. DeBlasio’s MIH Plan Still Needs Work (March 14, 2016)
  36. Activists vow to fight mayor’s “gentrification plan” in the neighborhoods (March 23, 2016).
  37. Protestors denounce de Blasio’s housing plan ahead of vote: “the word affordability has been coopted by the government” (March 22, 2016)
  38. Developers are “Very, Very Excited to Pioneer” New Neighborhoods Under de Blasio’s Affordable Housing Plan (March 22, 2016)
  39. City Council passes mayor’s citywide rezoning changes (March 22, 2016)
  40. Activists vow to fight mayor’s “gentrification plan” in the neighborhoods (March 23, 2016).

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