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Yahoo
13-07-2025
- Yahoo
Man, 27, fatally shot outside Brooklyn NYCHA development
A 27-year-old man was shot dead outside a Brooklyn NYCHA development, just steps from the spot of a triple shooting last year that also left a man dead. The victim was shot in the torso outside the Lafayette Gardens public housing complex near Dekalb and Kent Aves. in Clinton Hill about 9:20 p.m. Saturday, cops said. Medics rushed the victim to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital but he could not be saved. His name was not immediately released. No arrests have been made. The shooting took place outside the same building where three men were shot, one fatally, on Sept. 30. Shaquille Davis, 32, was texting his 8-year-old son, his family told the Daily News, when he was shot in the head in a playground outside the housing complex. A 26-year-old man shot in the abdomen and shoulder and a 33-year-old man shot in the chest survived that shooting.
Time of India
07-07-2025
- Time of India
No degree, no barrier: NYC's unseen hiring surge is a lifeline for the working class
1 2 In the city that never sleeps, opportunity doesn't knock; it gets posted on JobsNYC. And right now, the City of New York is opening doors that have long been shut to those without a college degree. From housing dispatch offices to justice corridors and underground transit systems, hundreds of entry-level jobs are being offered to everyday New Yorkers, no ivory tower credentials required. These are not gig scraps or part-time fillers. They're full-time, benefit-laden civil service roles with stability, purpose, and the rarest of urban commodities: Upward mobility. In a moment when inflation stretches paychecks and college debt derails futures, the city's bold hiring strategy is not just practical, it's political. Grit over graduation: The jobs redefining entry-level In a city built on hustle, not every opportunity comes with a diploma attached. As New York opens hundreds of entry-level government roles, the hiring criteria are shifting, valuing commitment over credentials and lived experience over lectures. For thousands of New Yorkers without a college degree, these jobs offer more than employment; they offer legitimacy, stability, and a long-overdue seat at the table. Justice on record: The camera doesn't lie The Richmond County District Attorney's Office is hiring a Body-Worn Camera Analyst, and the work is as real as it gets. You won't be pushing paper; you'll be reviewing law enforcement footage, flagging key evidence, and managing digital case files that may determine someone's future. Salary : $55,000–$57,000 Education required : High school diploma Location : Staten Island For those interested in law, tech, or justice, this role offers more than a desk; it offers a front-row seat to the legal system, without the need for a law degree. The eyes on the streets: Urban outreach in action The Department of Homeless Services (DHS) is looking for Field Associates who aren't afraid to walk the city's sharp edges, canvassing subway platforms, sidewalks, and public spaces to log real-time observations of the unhoused. You'll be the first responder in the city's ongoing effort to humanize homelessness, using handheld tech and compassion to make contact where few dare to look. Salary : $44,545–$51,227 Education required : High school diploma Locations : Citywide It's demandi=ng work. But for the right candidate, it's deeply rewarding, the kind of job that turns empathy into measurable impact. Vertical duty: Dispatching dignity at NYCHA In the unseen mechanical veins of public housing towers, NYCHA's Elevator Services and Repair Department is hiring Dispatchers. The job? Coordinating maintenance crews, recording elevator performance data, and being the communications lifeline between residents and tech teams. What's remarkable: this job has no formal education or experience requirements. Salary : $36,006–$50,569 Requirements : None, just reliability, clarity, and a sense of responsibility. Location : Borough-wide It's an opportunity designed for those who've been locked out of formal workforces but have everything it takes to show up, stay sharp, and serve others. The hidden goldmine: NYC civil service benefits Unlike precarious freelance or app-based jobs, these public sector positions come with powerful advantages: Union protection and job security Comprehensive healthcare Paid parental and sick leave Defined pension and retirement plans Intra-agency promotion ladders For many applicants, these benefits aren't just perks; they're life-altering. The real education? Life itself These jobs aren't handouts, they're a hand up for New Yorkers with street smarts, persistence, and purpose. Whether you're: A single parent returning to work A recent high school graduate avoiding debt A midlife worker forced to pivot An immigrant without U.S. credentials This is your moment. The City of New York isn't just offering employment. It's reimagining what employability means, measuring readiness not in GPAs, but in grit. A city's character is in who it hires For decades, public service was an aspiration, a chance to contribute to the civic fabric of New York. Then came credentialism, outsourcing, and economic precarity. Today, that tide may finally be turning. By recognizing the value of lived experience over academic pedigree, NYC is sending a message: Every borough deserves to be served by its own, and every resident deserves a shot at steady, dignified work. This is not just a job posting, it's a civic rebirth A city is strongest when its workforce reflects its people, not just the degree-holding, but the determined. Not just the privileged, but the persevering. So if you've ever been told you weren't qualified, look again. The qualifications have changed. Ready to navigate global policies? Secure your overseas future. Get expert guidance now!
CNN
04-07-2025
- Business
- CNN
Zohran Mamdani has big housing plans. Here's what stands in the way
New York City frontrunner for mayor Zohran Mamdani has an ambitious agenda to tackle the city's housing crisis. But the spiraling costs to develop affordable housing, President Donald Trump's efforts to gut federal housing aid and other obstacles may derail his goals. New York City is in the grips of its worst housing shortage in more than 50 years. Only 1.4% of apartment rentals are available, and the typical New York City household pays more than half of its $70,000 income on rent. The city's leaders for decades have promised new affordable housing. Mamdani, who won New York City's Democratic mayoral primary, has pledged to freeze rents on rent-stabilized units if elected; build 200,000 permanently affordable apartments over the next decade; and double the amount of money the city spends to preserve public housing. Mamdani's campaign did not respond to CNN's request for more details on his plans. 'We need significantly more affordable housing,' the campaign says on its website. 'Housing that does get built is often out of reach for working families who need it the most.' But affordable housing development is devilishly complicated and requires deep government subsidies to make units affordable to low-income tenants. And many affordable housing owners and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) are already behind on their bills. 'The rubber is going to meet the road' on Mamdani's housing policies, said Howard Slatkin, the executive director of the Citizens Housing & Planning Council, a non-profit research organization. 'It's hard to talk about these plans without talking about the simmering distress within New York City's affordable housing.' Since 2020, expenses for rent-regulated apartments have increased 22% per unit, according to data from the Community Preservation Corporation, a non-profit affordable housing lender. Rising costs for utilities, insurance and construction make it harder to keep the current stock of affordable housing in good condition or build new units. Plus, the Trump administration has proposed cutting federal rental assistance by 40%. This would devastate housing affordability in New York City, said Barika Williams, the executive director of ANHD, an organization of New York non-profit housing providers. 'What's happening at the federal level is our greatest threat to putting together a robust housing development plan for New York,' she said. If elected, Mamdani can likely fulfill his pledge to freeze rents for roughly 1 million rent-stabilized units — almost half of New York City's rentals. But there may be unintended consequences from the plan. The mayor appoints members to the Rent Guidelines Board that sets annual rent increases on stabilized units. The board froze rents three times over the last decade. The board on Monday approved rent increases on new leases beginning in October, a move Mamdani criticized as a 'blow to struggling rent-stabilized tenants.' But like tenants, affordable housing owners are also dealing with higher costs. Expenses for rent-regulated units are rising twice as fast as owners' revenues, according to the Community Preservation Corporation. Nearly one-third of the loans in its portfolio are buildings that don't have sufficient net operating income — income minus operating expenses — to fully cover mortgage payments. Eight percent of loans were delinquent. So experts warn that any rent freeze without financial support for smaller owners will lead to apartments falling into disrepair — especially fully rent-stabilized buildings in New York City's outer boroughs. Buildings built before 1974 outside of central Manhattan, a crucial part of the city's affordable supply, saw net operating incomes fall 13.1% from 2021 to 2023. 'There is a real need to freeze or minimize rent increases, and we also need to invest in the preservation and stability of our existing affordable housing stock,' said Williams. 'It can't be an either-or conversation.' Mamdani's rent freeze plan could undermine his goal of building 200,000 publicly subsidized, rent-stabilized, permanently affordable homes over the next decade for low-income households and seniors. That's because the private sector may be dissuaded from participating if these buildings don't include market-rate housing. The private sector has a 'very important role' to play in building housing, Mamdani has said. 'A rent freeze will change how a conversion might pay off for the developer,' said David Reiss, a law professor at Cornell University who served on the Rent Guidelines Board under Mayor Bill de Blasio. And to be permanently affordable for extremely low-income renters, it will require deeper government subsidies than Mamdani has pledged, experts say. Previous New York City mayors have attempted to produce housing for a wide range of incomes to help offset higher subsidies for deeply-affordable units. 'It's in the right direction to focus on people with the greatest affordability challenges,' said Alex Schwartz, an urban policy professor at The New School and a current member of the Rent Guidelines Board. 'It's important to recognize that the capital dollars won't go as far in terms of total numbers of units if they only go toward people with extremely low incomes.' Mamdani wants the city to borrow $70 billion to build affordable housing over the next decade, on top of the roughly $25 billion it already plans to invest. That's no easy task – he will need state approval since the plan would exceed the city's debt limit by around $30 billion, as well as the New York City Council's approval of zoning reforms that would make it easier to build. 'This would be a significant increase in city capital to produce deeply affordable housing,' said Rachel Fee, the executive director of the New York City Housing Conference, a non-profit affordable housing policy and advocacy organization. 'It's not something he can just implement on his own. It will take a political coalition to make this happen.' NYCHA, the largest and oldest public housing agency in the United States, has more than 177,000 apartments. But for decades, a decline in federal funding for public housing has caused living conditions to deteriorate. Mamdani plans to double the city's capital investment in NYCHA for long-term repairs. New York City plans to spend $1.27 billion in its next fiscal year on improvements, but that's nowhere near the roughly $80 billion NYCHA has estimated it needs to fully rehabilitate all of its buildings. The city has made progress renovating thousands of public housing developments through a program that converts units into a more stable federal funding source. But federal funding may soon dry up. New York City relies heavily on federal assistance for housing. But Trump's budget for next year calls for slashing Housing and Urban Development funding by nearly 44%, including cuts to grants for homelessness and community development programs and other rental assistance. New York would lose more than $4.4 billion in funding if Congress enacts the budget, according to New York Housing Conference projections. That would be on top of HUD staffing cuts and resignations that have depleted the agency under Trump. Mamdani has not said how his housing plan would reckon with the possibility of huge federal cuts to public housing. 'Public housing is area where we'd like to see more details from Mamdani's campaign,' said New York Housing Conference executive director Fee. 'Trump's plan would be a huge threat to achieving any of these goals.'
CNN
04-07-2025
- Business
- CNN
Zohran Mamdani has big housing plans. Here's what stands in the way
New York City frontrunner for mayor Zohran Mamdani has an ambitious agenda to tackle the city's housing crisis. But the spiraling costs to develop affordable housing, President Donald Trump's efforts to gut federal housing aid and other obstacles may derail his goals. New York City is in the grips of its worst housing shortage in more than 50 years. Only 1.4% of apartment rentals are available, and the typical New York City household pays more than half of its $70,000 income on rent. The city's leaders for decades have promised new affordable housing. Mamdani, who won New York City's Democratic mayoral primary, has pledged to freeze rents on rent-stabilized units if elected; build 200,000 permanently affordable apartments over the next decade; and double the amount of money the city spends to preserve public housing. Mamdani's campaign did not respond to CNN's request for more details on his plans. 'We need significantly more affordable housing,' the campaign says on its website. 'Housing that does get built is often out of reach for working families who need it the most.' But affordable housing development is devilishly complicated and requires deep government subsidies to make units affordable to low-income tenants. And many affordable housing owners and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) are already behind on their bills. 'The rubber is going to meet the road' on Mamdani's housing policies, said Howard Slatkin, the executive director of the Citizens Housing & Planning Council, a non-profit research organization. 'It's hard to talk about these plans without talking about the simmering distress within New York City's affordable housing.' Since 2020, expenses for rent-regulated apartments have increased 22% per unit, according to data from the Community Preservation Corporation, a non-profit affordable housing lender. Rising costs for utilities, insurance and construction make it harder to keep the current stock of affordable housing in good condition or build new units. Plus, the Trump administration has proposed cutting federal rental assistance by 40%. This would devastate housing affordability in New York City, said Barika Williams, the executive director of ANHD, an organization of New York non-profit housing providers. 'What's happening at the federal level is our greatest threat to putting together a robust housing development plan for New York,' she said. If elected, Mamdani can likely fulfill his pledge to freeze rents for roughly 1 million rent-stabilized units — almost half of New York City's rentals. But there may be unintended consequences from the plan. The mayor appoints members to the Rent Guidelines Board that sets annual rent increases on stabilized units. The board froze rents three times over the last decade. The board on Monday approved rent increases on new leases beginning in October, a move Mamdani criticized as a 'blow to struggling rent-stabilized tenants.' But like tenants, affordable housing owners are also dealing with higher costs. Expenses for rent-regulated units are rising twice as fast as owners' revenues, according to the Community Preservation Corporation. Nearly one-third of the loans in its portfolio are buildings that don't have sufficient net operating income — income minus operating expenses — to fully cover mortgage payments. Eight percent of loans were delinquent. So experts warn that any rent freeze without financial support for smaller owners will lead to apartments falling into disrepair — especially fully rent-stabilized buildings in New York City's outer boroughs. Buildings built before 1974 outside of central Manhattan, a crucial part of the city's affordable supply, saw net operating incomes fall 13.1% from 2021 to 2023. 'There is a real need to freeze or minimize rent increases, and we also need to invest in the preservation and stability of our existing affordable housing stock,' said Williams. 'It can't be an either-or conversation.' Mamdani's rent freeze plan could undermine his goal of building 200,000 publicly subsidized, rent-stabilized, permanently affordable homes over the next decade for low-income households and seniors. That's because the private sector may be dissuaded from participating if these buildings don't include market-rate housing. The private sector has a 'very important role' to play in building housing, Mamdani has said. 'A rent freeze will change how a conversion might pay off for the developer,' said David Reiss, a law professor at Cornell University who served on the Rent Guidelines Board under Mayor Bill de Blasio. And to be permanently affordable for extremely low-income renters, it will require deeper government subsidies than Mamdani has pledged, experts say. Previous New York City mayors have attempted to produce housing for a wide range of incomes to help offset higher subsidies for deeply-affordable units. 'It's in the right direction to focus on people with the greatest affordability challenges,' said Alex Schwartz, an urban policy professor at The New School and a current member of the Rent Guidelines Board. 'It's important to recognize that the capital dollars won't go as far in terms of total numbers of units if they only go toward people with extremely low incomes.' Mamdani wants the city to borrow $70 billion to build affordable housing over the next decade, on top of the roughly $25 billion it already plans to invest. That's no easy task – he will need state approval since the plan would exceed the city's debt limit by around $30 billion, as well as the New York City Council's approval of zoning reforms that would make it easier to build. 'This would be a significant increase in city capital to produce deeply affordable housing,' said Rachel Fee, the executive director of the New York City Housing Conference, a non-profit affordable housing policy and advocacy organization. 'It's not something he can just implement on his own. It will take a political coalition to make this happen.' NYCHA, the largest and oldest public housing agency in the United States, has more than 177,000 apartments. But for decades, a decline in federal funding for public housing has caused living conditions to deteriorate. Mamdani plans to double the city's capital investment in NYCHA for long-term repairs. New York City plans to spend $1.27 billion in its next fiscal year on improvements, but that's nowhere near the roughly $80 billion NYCHA has estimated it needs to fully rehabilitate all of its buildings. The city has made progress renovating thousands of public housing developments through a program that converts units into a more stable federal funding source. But federal funding may soon dry up. New York City relies heavily on federal assistance for housing. But Trump's budget for next year calls for slashing Housing and Urban Development funding by nearly 44%, including cuts to grants for homelessness and community development programs and other rental assistance. New York would lose more than $4.4 billion in funding if Congress enacts the budget, according to New York Housing Conference projections. That would be on top of HUD staffing cuts and resignations that have depleted the agency under Trump. Mamdani has not said how his housing plan would reckon with the possibility of huge federal cuts to public housing. 'Public housing is area where we'd like to see more details from Mamdani's campaign,' said New York Housing Conference executive director Fee. 'Trump's plan would be a huge threat to achieving any of these goals.'
New York Post
12-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Zohran Mamdani ignores reality and common sense in quest to destroy NYC
The rise of Zohran Mamdani does not mark a new turn in city policy so much as it reflects a rejection of reality. Political candidates can be forgiven for making sensational promises in their quest to win office, but the number of people willing to suspend disbelief is a barometer of our politics. And the current reading is troubling. For the better part of a century, the city's political progressives (once called 'liberals') argued about how big a slice government should take from the private sector to serve public purposes, and the extent to which government should regulate private transactions. Left unsaid is the recognition that private markets, and market actors, were the source of whatever piece they'd take in taxes for schools, police and public uses. Mamdani, born two years after the Berlin Wall fell, rejects that premise. He goes beyond just offering to have government tax more to pay for things — buses, college, childcare. He challenges the very idea of private ownership, most notably in the housing market, where he'd look to strangle building owners with a four-year rent freeze. Think landlords will eat the loss forever? In the 1970s, they abandoned thousands of money-losing buildings, contributing to the city's grim decline. Mamdani's plans to finance his agenda likewise fail to face reality. He'd need state permission for massive tax increases, which would only cover a fraction of his proposed spending. Even more impractically, he's counting on these new revenues flowing to city coffers without interference from 213 state lawmakers or the governor. Mamdani and his followers ignore the poor track record of government-owned ventures: the horror stories endured by NYCHA tenants, the mediocre outcomes in city-run schools, the struggles to operate, let alone expand or improve, the city's mass transit. To Mamdani, these are mere details — red herrings, even, flung by greedy capitalists. Data and evidence don't matter to the 33-year-old with only four years' experience as a lawmaker. He's part of a populist movement that disregards both. In some ways, he embodies a dynamic playing out on the other end of the political spectrum, where DC Republicans are breathlessly defending unsustainable deficit-spending that will eventually push the nation into a debt crisis. Both approaches — pretending debts or markets don't matter — will end in ruin. If Mamdani prevails in November, it will be up to his fellow Democrats in Albany to tap the brakes on plans that could measurably damage the economic standing of the city, and with it, the state. In some cases, they need only do nothing: they can reduce the risk of business and high-earner outmigration by leaving city tax rates where they are. In other cases, they might have to act, especially if and when Mamdani's anti-landlord stance translates into more vacant apartments becoming uneconomical to renovate, or if his posture toward police erodes public safety. Either way, Albany is counting on stability in the five boroughs to keep cash coming into state coffers, among other things. Nothing about New York City's weather or geography makes it the natural permanent seat of global commerce. Its political climate risks changing that. Ken Girardin writes about New York public policy. All opinions expressed are his own and not the views of his employer.
