Articles of Interest to Tenant Advocates - 2/21/2018

Daily News editorial: 2017 NYC Housing  & Vacancy Survey shows good & bad  news about housing crisis amNY: East Williamsburg tenants accuse  landlord of construction as harassment Patch: Brewer, Levine, uptown advocates  call for underused Dept. of Transportation  site to be used for affordable housing Homelessness Rafael Cestero: Trump's budget cuts  HUD funding by $8.8 billion, will increase  homelessness (The Hill) Nikita Stewart: Homelessness, step by step  (New York Times) Greg Smith: City opens Harlem supportive  housing building as de Blasio administration  grapples with homelessness  (Daily News) Greg Smith: How Mayors Koch, Dinkins,  Giuliani, Bloomberg & de Blasio have dealt  with homelessness (Daily News) NYCHA New York Times: Latest Cuomo vs. de Blasio  feud focuses on replacing boilers in NYCHA   developments Greg Smith: NYCHA has spent less than a  quarter of $3 billion in federal funds to repair  damage from Superstorm Sandy (Daily News) Sally Goldenberg: City Council to investigate  de Blasio decision to pull funding for Astoria  project that would have benefited adjacent  NYCHA complex (Politico NY) NYS End-Run Around Federal Tax Plan Tom Precious: Cuomo unveils specifics of  federal tax end-run plan (Buffalo News) Erin Durkin: DeFrancisco says Cuomo's  tax plan is  "delusional" (Daily News) Politics and elections Gotham Gazette: Special elections for  11 vacant seats in legislature set for April 24 Nick Reisman: Jumaane Williams launches  primary campaign against Lt. Gov. Kathy  Hochul (NY State of Politics) Observer: Jumaane Williams says he will  be a different kind of lieutenant governor Ben Austen: The towers came down in Chicago,  and with them the promise of public housing  (New York Times Magazine) Mike McKee http://www.tenantspac.org/