Low income housing leads to gentrification; people from higher income brackets move into affordable rent areas. What matters most, however, is keeping a portion of low-income housing for the the native residents who need to live there the most.

Bushwick is one of the many places in New York City where the concepts of zoning and rezoning are becoming more and more relevant in the civic lives of different organized groups and residents who fear they will not be able to stay in their homes or keep their businesses running for the next few years because of rising rent prices.

Industry City is a 6-million square foot warehousing and manufacturing complex on Sunset Park’s industrial waterfront. It was the nation’s biggest industrial manufacturing complex in the early 1900, before it was left abandoned for 30 years. Manufacturing businesses started coming

The former Pan American Hotel in Elmhurst was converted to an emergency homeless shelter in June. But as its temporary contract draws nearer to expiration, residents are wondering: what’s next?

Public schools in Highbridge, Bronx are searching for a way to get the most out of scarce resources.

The never-ending battle over charter schools in New York City may only intensify as new funding studies appear.

Participatory budgeting is a process in which the members of a community brainstorm ideas in meetings, which are then articulated into quantifiable capital projects listed on a ballot and voted on. The process is not new in the United States but in recent years it has generated significant momentum in Chicago, Boston and in New York City where communities have a decision-making power of millions of dollars in taxpayer money.