McKee's Media, Nov. 23, 2018

NYCHA LEAD PAINT

New York Times: Kids poisoned because NYCHA's response to Dept. of Health lead inspections was to challenge the reports, not correct the condition

Daily News: De Blasio claims he was unaware that NYCHA had challenged DOH lead paint inspection results, which The News exposed in 2015

NYCHA CONTROL

New York Post: City to place 62,000 public housing apartments under private management

Sally Goldenberg: De Blasio plans to expand private development on NYCHA land (Politico NY)

Greg Smith: De Blasio opposes federal receivership for NYCHA (Daily News)

Sarah Jones: Under a different president, federal receivership for NYC public housing might make sense, but not with Trump & Ben Carson (New York Magazine)

Daily News: NYCHA tenants on LES without heat or hot water since last week's snowstorm

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-nycha-heat-20181120-story.html

 

ALBANY

Carl Campanile: Cuomo says he will sign bill to repeal Vacancy Decontrol, but one of his lieutenants talks about raising threshold (New York Post)

Vivian Wang: New York Democrats vowed to get big money out of elections. Will they deliver now that they are in control of state government? (New York Times)

Casey Seiler: Last days for the LLC loophole? (Albany Times Union OpEd)

AMAZON DEAL

David Goodman: Instead of victory lap, Cuomo & de Blasio reel from backlash over Amazon deal (New York Times)

Jarrett Murphy: The scam at the heart of New York's Amazon deal (The Nation) (MUST READING)

Rex Smith: Amazon deal another example of government using tax subsidies to take care of the political donor class (Albany Times Union OpEd)

Dana Rubenstein: Ocasio-Cortez takes on the Amazon deal (Politico NY)

Carl Campanile: State legislature might have leverage to throw a wrench into Amazon deal (New York Post)

Daily Mail: Two Amazon execs snapped up LIC condos days before Amazon announcement sent real estate prices soaring

Daily News: State senator Jose Peralta dies suddenly at age 47

Shelterforce: The two vacancy crises in American cities

 

Shelterforce: A community-centered perspective on displacement

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