De Blasio Prefers School to Work: The Fate of Workfare
By Henry Parr The New York Times reported last week[1] that Mayor Bill de Blasio has vowed to reform the city’s welfare program and to remove its “workfare program.” Workfare is one of the city’s largest welfare programs that requires recipients to work assigned jobs in order to receive unemployment assistance. Under the city’s current […]
Creating Affordable Housing “9 x 18” Feet At A Time
By Jared Gans Mayor Bill de Blasio has voiced concern over the affordable housing dilemma and has announced his plan for 200,000 subsidized units to be built or preserved over the next decade. However, he has yet to explain how this will happen. Miriam Peterson, Sagi Golan, and Nathan Rich, three young architects and fellows […]
Manhattan’s Poor Door Policy: Designing for the Income Gap
By Henry Parr This past summer, New Yorkers were shocked to read that a new development on the Upper West Side of Manhattan was given the green light to build separate entrances for its market-rate condo owners and affordable housing renters. The “poor door” was likened to racially segregated bathrooms of the pre-Civil Rights era […]