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Alex Schwartz

Alex Schwartz
Professor of Public and Urban Policy at the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment at the New School
New York City

Are de Blasio’s Rezonings a Trojan Horse for Gentrification?

Probably Not.

February 22, 2020 • by Alex Schwartz
Mandatory inclusionary zoning applies to neighborhoods that are rezoned for higher densities and also to individual sites granted higher-density zoning variances. It offers developers several options, all of which specify minimum percentages of units that must be provided to households earning various percentages of what is known as “area median ...
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The Daunting Math of Solving New York’s Housing Crisis

January 31, 2020 • by Alex Schwartz
Since 1987, New York has invested more than $17.5 billion (adjusted for inflation) of its own capital resources on constructing and preserving more than 450,000 housing units. No other city has drawn on its own tax base to anywhere near this extent to help finance affordable housing, and no other ...
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The Daunting Math of Solving New York’s Housing Crisis
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