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In one of America’s most expensive housing markets, more than 10 acres of publicly owned land in the heart of Jersey City are currently devoted to surface parking lots. At a time when housing costs are forcing working families out of the communities they helped build, we should be asking a simple question: Is that really the best use of scarce public land? Hudson County Executive Craig Guy has put forward a bold alternative.
In one of America's most expensive housing markets, more than 10 acres of publicly owned land in the heart of Jersey City are currently devoted to surface parking lots. At a time when housing costs are forcing working families out of the communities they helped build, we should be asking a simple question: Is that really the best use of scarce public land? Hudson County Executive Craig Guy has put forward a bold alternative.
The must-read daily newsletter for NYN's political community. Get it in your inbox. email April 27, 2023 06:42 PM ET Opinion For a work-obsessed nation in the midst of a labor shortage, we still go to great lengths to prevent people with past criminal convictions who want to work from accessing a job. According to the most recent U.S. Department of Labor data, there are 5.9 millionunemployed workers and 10.8 million job openings.
The must-read daily newsletter for NYN's political community. Get it in your inbox. email Across New York City, the public safety crisis is most acutely seen and felt in low-income communities of color. Indeed, gun violence is ravaging neighborhoods already hit hardest by COVID-19, mass incarceration, unemployment, and low-wage work.
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