The research project was conducted in partnership with Alexandra Schweitzer, senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School, and launched in January, prior to COVID-19. Schweitzer revealed the survey results during a session at this week’s RISE National Summit on Social Determinants of Health and moderated a panel discussion about the findings.

Davetta Brooks, 75, who has heart failure, a fractured hip and macular degeneration, is afraid. Conditions in her low-income senior building on Chicago’s Near West Side — the Congressman George W. Collins Apartments — are “deplorable,” she said.

Davetta Brooks, 75, who has heart failure, a fractured hip and macular degeneration, is afraid. Conditions in her low-income senior building on Chicago’s Near West Side — the Congressman George W. Collins Apartments — are “deplorable,” she said.

What toll is the pandemic taking on our mental health, and what can be done to improve our lives? Mike Gilliam is joined by Mohini Mishra, Viviane Ouedraogo, Robin Moon and Buzz Von Ornsteiner for our latest CUNY TV town hall.

A year-and-a-half ago, developer TF Cornerstone broke ground on their two-building, 1,194-unit project at Hunter’s Point South, located along the East River in Long Island City.

The housing lottery is now open for 52-41 Center Boulevard, one of two Hunter’s Point South towers on Long Island City‘s waterfront in Queens. Developed by TF Cornerstone and designed by ODA, 52-41 and 52-03 Center Boulevard will bring 1,194 new residential units in the form of studios, one-bedrooms, and two-bedrooms ranging in monthly rent from $698 to $2,704. Sixty percent of units will be allocated as permanently affordable to low-, moderate-, and middle-income families, and 100 apartments will go to low-income seniors.

Even among non-architects, Daniel Libeskind’s name is well-known. Over three decades, his firm has designed and built many high-profile institutions and cultural landmarks, beginning with his competition-winning proposal for the Jewish Museum Berlin in 1989.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, three rent-regulated apartment buildings in Glendale underwent a $5 million tenant-in-place rehabilitation. It’s the first project under the city’s Neighborhood Pillars program, which is meant to help preserve affordable housing, to be completed.