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With the tourism industry still struggling and many people working remotely, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers raised the prospect of converting distressed hotels and office buildings into housing as part of the state budget. Many of those buildings are sitting empty, and there could be an opportunity to turn them into housing as a way to help address New York City’s ongoing housing and homelessness crisis. But no specific proposal made it into the final spending plan. Lawmakers set aside $100 million in funding for building conversions in anticipation of a proposal, but that’s not nearly enough to accomplish what many housing advocates hope for. And time is ticking to get started before the economy rebounds and the buildings and construction are too expensive again to take action.
The Great Housing Debate: A Profusion of Panaceas
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The Great Housing Debate: A Profusion of Panaceas
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No matter what kind of self-hypnotized state I’m in when scrolling on social media, I will always pause for a well-designed interior. The other day, I hovered over a video of a young woman giving a tour of her two-bedroom, rent-controlled Upper West Side apartment. The disembodied camera bobbed into the unit’s entryway, and I immediately became the “transparent eyeball” Ralph Waldo Emerson described when he spoke of man absorbing all of what nature (in this case, the New York City real estate market) has to offer.
And what did my transparent eyeball see? Multiple fireplaces, parquet flooring, and handsome pocket doors ushering me through a series of light-filled rooms, each trimmed with enough delicate crown molding to resemble a carefully frosted cake. When my eyeball entered a second sitting room, I wondered for a moment if the video had actually looped, but then it ended. The vast apartment was $1,300–less than a third of the median price for a two-bedroom in the neigh
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Austen Lund of Fargo was recently named to the President’s list at Lake Area Technical College in Watertown, S.D. The President’s List is limited to full-time students who have achieved a semester grade point average of 3.5 to 4.0.
Claire Johnson of Fargo was named to the fall 2020 Dean’s List at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Students must have a minimum semester GPA of 3.70 with at least 12 credits. In addition,
Kate Ludwig and
Samuel Stein, both of Moorhead, were named to the list.
Edward Conmy of Fargo earned placement on the fall Dean’s List at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash. Students must earn a 3.5 to 3.84 grade-point average to be listed.