The court’s decision opens the door to demolition work beginning at the Fulton and Elliot-Chelsea Houses as soon as federal officials give the green light. Federal approval “could happen any day,” an ...

Good intentions tend to carry far more weight than they should in some spheres. Public housing is unquestionably one of them. While the arguments in Howard Husock’s The Projects: A New History of ...

We must modernize SEQRA to empower local governments, accelerate housing approvals and fix New York's housing crisis.

The link between access to housing and access to health care is why my company — a major health care provider — has made ...

This is an in-person program at the Museum’s lower Manhattan gallery. As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, enduring ...

The biggest message New York City voters sent on election night was not their choice of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, who got a little more than 50% of the vote. City voters gave larger margins ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — A report released Tuesday raised questions about the increase in housing projects subsidized by New York State’s 107 local Industrial Development Agencies. It analyzes the ...

Editor’s Note: This essay is adapted from The Projects: A New History of Public Housing (NYU Press, 2025) by Howard A. Husock, senior fellow in Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise ...