Challenges to Achieving New York City’s Affordable Housing Goals: Reconciling Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, Community Preference Requirements, and Fair Housing Laws
By Professor Andrea McArdle I. Introduction Under the mayoral administration of Bill de Blasio, New York City has embarked on an ambitious affordable housing initiative mandating that real estate developers include below-market-rate units in rezoned areas of the city. Although approved by the New York City Council, the policy faces continuing community opposition, the expiration […]
Shut Out of Airbnb: A Proposal for Remedying Housing Discrimination in the Modern Sharing Economy
By Jamila Jefferson-Jones* Introduction The modern sharing economy[1] is a diverse marketplace made up of various types of organizations and structures, including shared housing.[2] What ties these various components together is that they “generally facilitate community ownership, localized production, sharing, cooperation, [and] small scale enterprise.”[3] The housing segment of the sharing economy is also a part […]
New Consent Decree Seeks to Curtail Violence in NYC Jails. Will It Work?
By Claire Glass On October 21, 2015 Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the Southern District of New York signed into law the consent decree sought in Mark Nunez v. City of New York, a 2011 class action brought on behalf of a class of incarcerated individuals who were victims of unnecessary use of force by […]
New York’s Push to Raise the Minimum Wage to $15
By Herbie Rosen New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently came out in support of raising the New York state minimum wage to $15 per hour. The Governor’s initiative, the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice (named after the late Governor’s father, and former New York Governor), pivots away from his original position of raising the minimum wage to […]