Dear Future of Flushing Group,
Please review the following sources and take them into account as you work on your white papers!
- Mironova, O. (2014). The Value of Land: How Community Land Trusts Maintain Housing Affordability. from Urban Omnibus.
- 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)
- The Hollowing out of NYC’s Industrial Zones (Feb. 16, 2016)
- Why DeBlasio’s Housing Plan is Nowhere Near Affordable for Low- and Middle-Wage New Yorkers (Feb. 16, 2016)
- Protestors denounce de Blasio’s housing plan ahead of vote: “the word affordability has been coopted by the government” (March 22, 2016)
- Developers are “Very, Very Excited to Pioneer” New Neighborhoods Under de Blasio’s Affordable Housing Plan (March 22, 2016)
- City Council passes mayor’s citywide rezoning changes (March 22, 2016)
- Activists vow to fight mayor’s “gentrification plan” in the neighborhoods(March 23, 2016).
- Residents call for truly affordable housing in ‘Flushing West’ rezoning plan(March 11, 2016)
- Pols, residents vent Flushing West frustrations (March 17, 2016)
- Borough Hall Protest decries gentrification (March 30, 2016)
- Has Developers’ Wish list shaped Queens Rezoning Plan? (April 28, 2016)
- Flushing’s Affordable Housing at Risk (May 2, 2016)
