In a speech at the New School, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio called for a sweeping overhaul of the City’s economic development policies to lift New Yorkers out of poverty and reduce rampant income and economic inequality.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio unveiled a sweeping legislative and policy agenda aimed at fully integrating immigrants into the city’s economic and civic life.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has outlined a new vision for affordable housing in New York City,including building over 100,000 new affordable units and preserving nearly 90,000 more over the next decade.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio announced an investigation into reports raised in today’s Daily News that a City agency set quotas for issuing violations against small businesses and directed its admin
The Justice Department’s statement in support of a court-appointed monitor for the NYPD, were the Police Department’s use of stop-and-frisk found unconstitutional, urgently underscores the need for fu
At today’s hearing of the Rent Guidelines Board, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio renewed his call for a rent freeze and slammed the Board for forgoing public hearings in the outer boroughs this year.
With many neighborhoods across our city still reeling from the damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, and with the negative impacts of climate change worsening every day, I commend Mayor Bloomberg for off