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Real Estate
Underexposed | 10
In Long Island City, stunted electrical poles mark some of the city's most contested real estate.
Board to Death?
Community boards promise local democracy, but it takes more to translate neighborhood visions into reality.
Siting Rikers' Replacements
The city's plans call for new borough jails to replace those at Rikers. A set of drawings examines land uses in the boroughs' civic centers to consider: Can New Yorkers accept jails as neighbors?
Property Taxes
Confusing, reviled, unfair, arcane — and important. Explore the labyrinthine system of property taxes.
Who Makes the Many Harlems?
Integration without gentrification? Self-determination without segregation? Who has the power to determine Harlem’s future?
The Bible and the Billionaire
Emily Schmidt spins the origin story of the affordable row house in the 1980s, when pastors and businessmen sowed scorched earth with rows of new homes.
Development
For the season's ninth and final Housing Brass Tacks discussion, two developers — one for-profit, one not-for-proft — laid out the nitty-gritty of building affordable housing.
Public Housing Transformed
Catherine Fennell and Crystal Palmer, two authorities on Chicago's public housing transformation, probed the problematic mythos of public housing—from the "failure" of tower complexes to the virtues of mixed-income redevelopment.
NYCHA
In our seventh Brass Tacks discussion, Rasmia Kirmani-Frye, President of the Fund for Public Housing, leveled with us on public housing’s unique role in the city and the challenges NYCHA must face.
Beyond Shelter
In the latest Brass Tacks discussion, representatives from Coalition for the Homeless and Picture the Homeless considered homelessness as a symptom of our housing crisis and efforts to create permanent housing solutions.