Investment sales in New York City continue to drop across all boroughs except The Bronx where the borough was the only one to show an increase in the second half of 2017 which was up by 3% the previous year from $1.45 billion to $1.49 billion.
Manhattan, meanwhile, saw a 41% drop form $17 billion to $10 billion during the same time period and Queens saw a decline of 46% from $3.5 billion in 2016 to $1.9 billion.
Brooklyn, dropped the least which went down by 26% but Staten Island saw the biggest drop by 59% from $492 million to $203 million.
According to Real Estate Weekly, The Bronx’s push up in sales was helped by the $115 million sale of 260 E 161st Street in Melrose to the owners of Manhattan’s Chelsea Market in what is to date the borough’s most expensive sale ever.
“The current demand and value of Bronx properties, as seen in our most recent New York City Residential Sales Report, carried over to investment property trades in the second half of 2017,” REBNY president John H. Banks said. “While the pace of completed transactions lagged citywide in 2017, investors continue to show interest in income-producing properties across the five boroughs.”
It will be interesting to see if this upwards trend continues for The Bronx as gentrification continues to rear its ugly head.
Despite opposition from Bronx Community Board 8, New York City Department of Transportation is ignoring the board and will proceed with a redesign of Broadway from 242nd Street to the city limits at the Westchester County border and will include two-way protected bike lanes.
Currently, pedestrians have to cross a 70 foot wide Broadway making it a dangerous trek to get to and from Van Cortlandt Park across a road where many drive above the speed limit.
The new redesign will reduce the crossing to 50 feet by adding a north/south protected bike lane hugging the park along the current parking spaces which will then be shifted west to separate the lanes from traffic.
There will be no reduction of traffic lane which will remain a 4 lane roadway with two lanes of traffic going north or south.
Even if we weren’t biking all the time, we still cannot fathom why a community board would be against shortening the distance pedestrians have to cross in order to make a more safer thoroughfare.
In a letter sent last week, DOT Bronx Borough Commissioner Nivardo Lopez informed CB 8 Chair Rosemary Ginty that the danger of Broadway’s current wide, high-speed layout makes the redesign imperative [PDF].
“After full consideration of your resolution, feedback received through our outreach process, and our engineering analysis, we have determined that the proposed safety improvement project is the best way to address all the safety issues along the corridor,” Lopez wrote.
Above: Broadway as it currently is configured from 242nd Street to the Westchester/Yonkers line; Below, a safer, redesigned Broadway with protected bike lanes./Image via DOT
Broadway north of 242nd Street feels like a highway, and people have to cross it to get to the park, which is one of the city’s largest. DOT clocked about 80 percent of drivers exceeding the speed limit on this part of Broadway. Lives are at stake: From 2010 to 2014, 12 people — including 10 pedestrians — were killed or severely injured in crashes on Broadway between 242nd Street and the Westchester County border.
There’s no arguing that this is a good thing for everyone. We must share our roads and make our city a safer one for all.
We unequivocally reject the city’s plan to site a new jail at 320 Concord Avenue in our South Bronx neighborhood, and we oppose the construction of any new jails in New York City. The decision to construct a new jail in the South Bronx, made without any input from the local community, is a slap in the face of South Bronx residents who have suffered from top-down city planning decrees that put the interests of the powerful above the needs of the people in the nation’s poorest Congressional District. From the planning of the Cross Bronx Expressway to the relocation of Fresh Direct to our community’s waterfront, decisions are made for our community with complete disregard for the people who live here. Our vision for the health and wellbeing of our people is constantly eclipsed by the wants of those outside our community.
The siting of a new jail at 320 Concord Avenue is in direct conflict with locally-driven, grassroots neighborhood efforts to develop our community in a way that respects the long history of organizing by Bronxites who struggled through years of abandonment and neglect. Building on a twenty-two year struggle to stabilize the Diego Beekman housing complex and the surrounding community, local residents have worked to develop the Diego Beekman Neighborhood Plan, with the lot at 320 Concord Avenue established as a neighborhood Hub for housing, commerce, and community space. (see Diego Beekman Open Letter to Mayor de Blasio and NYC Council Speaker Johnson in Opposition to A New South Bronx Jail, which we support).
The South Bronx already carries a disproportionate burden of New York City’s failure to invest in sustainable ways to address its social and environmental problems. The city’s failure to provide genuinely affordable housing results in a concentration of homeless shelters in the South Bronx. The failure to meaningfully address heroin addiction in our community (before the opioid crisis became mainstream) results in similar concentration of methadone clinics in our neighborhood. The excess consumption of New Yorkers hits us in the form of 5,000 tons of trash processed daily in the South Bronx waste transfer station. And the desire of wealthier New Yorkers for gourmet food delivered to their doorstep will soon bring an additional 1,000 diesel truck trips per day through our neighborhood that has the highest asthma rate in the nation.
In the same way, New York City’s failure to invest more aggressively in alternatives to incarceration and more restorative ways to deal with crime now results in the plan for a new jail in the South Bronx. Our opposition to the new jail is in no way a rejection of the people caught up in the criminal justice system. A disproportionate number of the city’s prisoners are from the South Bronx and they too are members of our community. We desire fairer, swifter, and more humane forms of justice for our brothers and sisters in the justice system, and for that reason we applaud the city’s plan to close Rikers Island.
Our opposition to the construction of a new jail goes beyond “Not In My Back Yard” to a broader concern about how the city’s resources are allocated to deal with people in conflict with the law. We are not just against the siting of a new jail in our neighborhood – we don’t want a new jail built period. Over the last 25 years, the city’s jail population has fallen from a high of 21,674 in 1991 to under 9,000 earlier this year, accomplished through a combination of falling crime rates and criminal justice reforms. The plan to replace Rikers assumes a need for 5,000 jail beds in ten year as reforms continue. We challenge the city to come up with a more aggressive plan to further reduce the number of people in jail, thus making the need to construct a new facility unnecessary. Through a combination of bail reform, decriminalization of minor offenses, and investment in alternatives to incarceration, we believe this is more than possible.
It is not lost on us that in New York City’s plan to replace Riker with smaller facilities, the Bronx is the only borough where a new facility is planned for construction. In Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, the plan is to repurpose existing jail complexes, thus not expanding the footprint of the criminal justice system in these boroughs. But in the Bronx, the borough that has suffered the most disinvestment, we see once again the pattern of spending millions on an ever-expanding criminal justice infrastructure. The new Bronx County Criminal Court that opened in 2007 cost $352 million dollars to construct. The new 40th Police Precinct is expected to cost $51 million to build. The plan to renovate the Horizon Juvenile Detention Center to accommodate adolescents from Rikers is expected to cost $170 million. The construction of a new jail to replace Rikers (when we already have the Vernon C. Bain Detention Center in Hunts Point) will likely cost more than all the aforementioned developments. And yet when our community asks for the renovation of community centers, the creation of green spaces, living wage jobs, truly affordable housing, and other investments in positive supports that would alleviate the conditions that push so many into the criminal justice system, we are told that the resources don’t exist.
We will not accept more spending on infrastructure that coerces and controls when our neighborhood is in desperate need of community-driven development. We will not accept the construction of a new jail, in the South Bronx, or anywhere. We will not accept a vision for our community that relies on caging people instead of investing in the resources they need to thrive.
For these reasons, we categorically reject the building of a new jail in the South Bronx, and call on the city to invest its economic resources in people, not prisons.
After visiting Andrew Jackson Houses in Melrose, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo said has no problem with declaring a state of emergency for NYCHA after witnessing first hand the deplorable conditions for himself as he toured the projects.
Cuomo saw apartments that were infested with roaches and vermin, peeling paint that could possibly be contaminated with lead and called the conditions “intolerable” and “disgusting”.
But missing from many narratives in the media is the fact that three years ago, the same Governor Cuomo who’s calling for a state of emergency for the country’s largest public housing system housing over 400,000 people, he pulled $100 million in funding that was marked for repairs that were desperately needed.
Curbed made mention of this via a tweet as seen below
Throwback to some past @RitchieTorres comments: “The governor has politicized the use of the $100 million and does nothing to address the needs of tenants.”https://t.co/KTBPNTHHN9
Where has Cuomo been all these years? Has he not been the governor of New York since 2001? New York City Housing Authority’s problems and deplorable conditions predate his tenure in office so as several people have mentioned, is this an issue because it’s an election year?
Some of the city’s most vulnerable residents live in NYCHA and all of the 400,000+ residents shouldn’t be an afterthought or a campaign season political football.
Let’s hope they actually fix things now and not stop after the election year is up
When one thinks of Bronx sports, we tend to immediately think of basketball, baseball, and of course handball (fight me on that last one cuz that’s a sport too!).
Lacrosse is rarely if ever on that list of sports kids in The Bronx play unless you’re thinking of affluent areas like Riverdale and Fieldston with their $40k plus a year private schools.
But one teacher in The Bronx is bringing down those barriers and breaking those stereotypes in the Highbridge area of our borough.
Dan Leventhal with a student from Highbridge Green/Image courtesy Highbridge Green
25 year old teacher Dan Leventhal, who grew up in Chappaqua (home of Hillary and Bill Clinton) up in Westchester), brought the game to Highbridge Green School back in 2016 with the hopes of providing these kids with another outlet leading them to better opportunities.
“Instead of hanging out in the street and just leaving school and going to hang out and getting into not-so-good stuff, I knew I wanted to give them something to be passionate about,” Leventhal said. “We have 40 guys now who are really into it, who have bought in. We have multiple study halls a week because they know if they’re not passing their classes, they can’t play.”
Bronx Lacrosse is more than just an after-school clinic where Leventhal teaches kids how to throw and catch. It’s a full-year program with a schedule of Middle School Athletic League games played at Randalls Island, some against more developed city programs. Through sponsorships, Bronx Lacrosse is also participating in weekend jamborees in Westchester and Connecticut against some of the best youth teams in the country.
“If you want to be a good lacrosse player, if you really want to experience the sport, you have to play against the best,” Leventhal said.
Coach Dan Leventhal with members of Highbridge Green/Image courtesy of Highbridge Green
Leventhal’s players meet regularly all week for team practices, study halls and meetings. He said he is involved in their academic and home lives, and his program is strict and no-nonsense. It requires a commitment, and in exchange, students are given an opportunity to be part of a team.
Now these kids are not just playing a sport that may be a pathway to college for them and out of poverty but they are also improving their grades.
Leventhal now wants to replicate this program across the area with other schools but they need our help and you can do your part by making a donation to their non-profit which will help expand the program and reach more of our youth.
We know that education in The Bronx is not the best thanks the continuation of a Tale of Two Cities under the de Blasio administration despite his pledge to end inequalities.
Schools in The Bronx have less access to athletic programs than do wealthier school districts on Staten Island which really shouldn’t be the case. Our kids deserve better but sadly since the Department of Education won’t step up, it’s up to us to help fund these programs.
After years of mismanagement and delays in the completion of Roberto Clemente Plaza at Third Avenue and 149th Street at The Hub, the borough’s oldest shopping district and Business Improvement District, The Third Avenue BID has been selected to oversee the plaza once completed.
Last year we exposed the incompetence behind the delays with getting the plaza completed which has taken 10 years to do so (and still isn’t completed) but thanks to the staff and leadership at the Third Avenue BID along with local elected officials including Councilman Rafael Salamanca Jr, construction is nearing completion.
Most importantly, however, is that the plaza will no longer be run by SoBro but will instead fall under the auspices of the Third Avenue BID which has already shown a proven track record of getting things done by being able to work with the various agencies involved in the project.
“From initial design through construction, the Roberto Clemente Plaza project has taken nearly 10 years to complete.” noted Michael Brady, Executive Director of the Third Avenue Business Improvement District. “We are optimistic that this long awaited community asset is finally going to be a resource for South Bronx residents and shoppers.”
“The Third Avenue Business Improvement District in partnership with Council Member Rafael Salamanca, Jr. is proud to have led the advocacy to push this public works project toward completion. From community visioning sessions to the latest meetings with the Interim Commissioner for the NYC Department of Design and Construction, the voice of our neighborhood have guided our planning, advocacy, and implementation of programming surrounding the plaza’s development. Furthermore, we are equally heartened that the plaza’s management, maintenance, and concession will be operated by the Third Avenue Business Improvement District. The mission of the BID is to lead with equity. Community-based control of public space is very important to an area’s development and growth, and a central component of he equity movement – the BID is happy to be an active part of this movement.”
The BID has already engaged with the New York Horticulture Society who will help maintain the plaza and the green elements of the space as well.
According to a recent meeting with DDC Interim Commission called by Council Member Rafael Salamanca, Jr. the plaza is expected to be completed by May 31, 2018 with the installation of public art to be completed by September 2018. During the meeting Michael Brady, Executive Director of the Third Avenue Business Improvement District stated that “the delays and excuses from the City of New York need to stop.” Brady continued, “the plaza will be an inspirational community asset; however, the delays and unresponsiveness from City government compounded by antiquated procurement policies leave area residents and businesses feeling that they are not on par with Manhattan or Brooklyn counterparts.”
Brady stated that the new DDC Commissioner is more transparent then her predecessors and has committed that the full completion of Roberto Clemente Plaza will be one of her agency’s top priorities.
A sculpture in memory of Roberto Clemente by local Bronx artist Melissa Calderon is scheduled to be installed towards the end of the year.
Personally, we look forward to the completion of this plaza and have the community enjoy this asset.
150 units at 1903 West Farms Road at the 10-building Compass Residences have opened up for applicants eager to snatch up an “affordable” unit.
These residences are in a 15 story building that is part of this massive 10 building development and features a private courtyard for residents, a bike storage room, a community room, a laundry room, and even a fitness room.
The apartments are finished with stainless steal appliances and granite counter tops in the kitchens.
The rents are truly affordable with studios going for $865; one-bedrooms at $929; two-bedrooms at $1,121; and three-bedrooms at $1,289, however, in order to qualify for them, your income has to fall within the designated 60% AMI (Area Median Income) which is NOT the based on the median income of the neighborhood.
In order to qualify for these units, a 1 person household must make anywhere from $31,543 for studio or $33,806 for a 1 bedroom but make no more than $40,080 for either unit.
The median income for a single person in the area is $11,676 a year according to a recent study done by Curbed.
This places these units out of reach for the majority of residents in the area that are seeking relief from being rent-burdened.
According to Curbed’s analysis, this these are the actual median incomes in the district:
1 person household – $11,676
2 person household – $25,317
3 person household – $31,999
4 person household – $38,477
5 person household – $41,546
So that being said, if you live in Community Board 6, then good luck in actually getting an apartment there. The ultimate irony is that these units were constructed through the Extremely Low and Low Income Affordability Program but clearly there’s nothing extremely low or low income about those figures.
If you want to apply, just head on over to NYC Housing Connect and do so or you can check out this PDF with all the details needed but it’s really easier if you just do it at their website.
La Masa expanded next door and now even has space downstairs.
One of our favorite Bronx restaurants is in the heart of Morris Park and it’s called La Masa and they have now expanded more than doubling in size!
Tomorrow at 9PM, come to La Masa and join in celebrating this Bronx small as they continue to grow!
The Colombian restaurant serves up some of the best empanadas you’ll find in NYC filled with traditional meat or chicken or dozens of other different ones for you to just drool over.
La Masa is also venturing into vegan territory adding several items like vegan burger with vegan cheese and instead of traditional buns you can get in between two arepas and it’s served with fried potatoes that are so yummy.
The yuca fries are made fresh and aren’t greasy so you can have this guilty pleasure without much of the guilt and more of the pleasure.
The patacon a sandwich that uses fried plantain aka platanos instead of bread was as good to eat as it was to look at.
It’s never a disappointment when you walk into La Masa. The space is beautifully done and the food is just always so on point.
We’re just simply excited to see a small business succeed to the point that they expanded their footprint.
Don’t forget to stop by especially tomorrow, Saturday March 10th at 9PM to celebrate their expansion with them!
La Masa is located at 1000 Morris Park Avenue at the corner of Colden Avenue.
Last night hundreds of residents from the South Bronx and across the borough came out in solidarity to a town hall organized by Diego Beekman and voiced their anger and disappointment in the city’s decision to dump a jail in Mott Haven or for that matter, anywhere in our borough.
Mayor Bill de Blasio stunned local elected officials and residents last month when he unilaterally announced that a jail would be constructed at 320 Concord Avenue, a site filled with so much history where the former Lincoln Hospital once stood as well as its school of nursing which graduated almost 2,000 black nurses and nurses of color.
The meeting opened up with residents standing up in unison chanting “WE WILL FIGHT, WE WILL WIN!” and was immediately followed up by local elected officials where were invited to listen to residents wishes and demands on the issue.
Only three elected officials showed up, Councilwoman Diana Ayala, who represents the district of the proposed jail, NYS Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo who also represents the district on a state level and US Congressman Jose E. Serrano who represents the area on a federal level.
Shanequa Charles gave an impassioned speech rallying the room together with fists up and recognizing each other as brothers and sisters.
Congressman Serrano was the first elected official to take the podium and expressed his dismay and disgust at how he found out which was through the media like everyone else with nary the decency or courtesy of a phone call.
Assemblywoman Arroyo equally gave an impassioned speech met with cheers from the crowd as she stated that this will not be allowed in her district comparing Mayor de Blasio to Trump for wanting to dump on The Bronx again and not having discussed this with the community or local elected officials who represent the area.
Councilwoman Ayala followed up and began offering a timeline of events and was more guarded than the two due to the flack she received for being more receptive to the jail opening in Mott Haven.
The Mott Haven Herald reported earlier this weekthat, “After studying a report issued by a judicial commission last year about the need for smaller, safer jails, Ayala said, she came away convinced that Mott Haven can benefit from such a deal, by demanding new schools and affordable housing in exchange for a jail.
“We might have a chance to leverage other opportunities,” she told Board 1 in Melrose at its February meeting, and added that “it’s not the demon that we’re making it out to be. Let’s at least have the conversation.”
Eventually she did not finish her talk due to residents shouting and screaming their concerns and not wanting to listen to what else she had to say.
Ayala stated that we had to listen to each other to get the full picture and she was attempting to provide residents with a timeline of events but the crowd was just not having it at that point and were restless in wanting to get their own voices heard.
Missing from the meeting was Councilman Rafael Salamanca Jr who now chairs the powerful land use committee which would have to approve this site for such use, however, Salamanca is vehemently opposed to bringing it to this community and at least we know where he stands on this issue.
The Mayor was invited but clearly doesn’t care about The Bronx so he didn’t show up, Public Advocate Tish James sent in one of her staff members in her place due to scheduling conflicts but he assured residents that they have her ear and she is listening.
NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer was a no-show also but sent in a representative.
Watch the full video of the elected officials as well as a full video of residents giving calling for no new prisons in The Bronx and no where else for that matter.
It was a proud day to see Bronx residents stand up to our local elected officials and hearing them telling them that we voted you in we will vote you out if you do not comply with community wishes.
The West Bronx is on the verge of a huge make-over and city sponsored gentrification as the massive 90+ block Jerome Avenue Rezoning Plan inches closer to becoming reality.
Yesterday, New York City Council’s Land Use Committee, chaired by Councilman Rafael Salamanca Jr of The Bronx, voted unanimously to approve the rezoning which now leaves it up to a full council vote most likely March 21st at 1:30PM according to Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson of The Bronx as reported by City Limits.
The city hopes that the rezoning will spur the creation of up to 4,600 units of housing which will flood The Bronx with tens of thousands of new residents to meet demands of an ever-growing city.
But what of the people who live in the area who need affordable housing now? What of the people who live along Jerome Avenue in an area defined as one of the most rent-burdened areas of the region as well as some of the highest rates of families facing homelessness?
We have been writing for years now that Mayor de Blasio’s “affordable” housing program is a scam that doesn’t address the needs of those who truly need affordable housing.
The rezoning would allow more commercial and residential construction along the avenue, which is lined with auto shops, dollar stores and hair salons. The de Blasio Administration says it wants to revitalize the area and bring more housing, especially affordable housing, to the community.
Like other neighborhood rezonings, the plan is controversial: some residents and activists worry that rents will spike, forcing out current residents and businesses. Auto shop workers say they’ve already been squeezed out of places like Willets Point, and there aren’t many industrial areas left for them to move to.
But Councilwoman Vanessa L. Gibson argues the rezoning will come with major improvements. “Today’s vote is major progress for the Bronx,” she said, noting that the borough has suffered from “decades and decades of disinvestment.”
But we ask progress for who? We’re not against development and progress but it shouldn’t come at the expense of business owners and local residents.
The roughly three years of discussions leading up to this week’s vote have been contentious, with members of the Bronx Coalition for a Community Vision, an alliance of residents, tenant and community organizations, unions and others, expressing concerns that the rezoning would spur the market and cause the displacement of Jerome Avenue’s auto-businesses and the area’s low-income residents.
Others, particularly some community board members who voted in favor of the rezoning with conditions, have argued that the development plan must come with significant investments in the long-neglected neighborhood, especially new schools to relieve existing overcrowding and accommodate new families. Notably, Gibson and Cabrera were successful in pushing the School Construction Authority for two new schools, each with 458 seats. One will be located at 2355 Morris Avenue, a city-controlled site in District 10, while another will be located in District 9; the location is still being determined. Gibson also announced the preservation of 2,500 units of existing affordable housing over the next two years (up from the administration’s November commitment of 1,500 units), a $1.5 million fund to help auto-businesses relocate, the hiring of a workforce network coordinator, investments in parks, and more. The councilmembers are also launching two task forces, one on public health and another on “local hiring and responsible contracting.”
And where will these businesses go? The city has already chased the auto-businesses out of Willets Point in Queens and into Hunts Point which eventually failed so now we’re chasing our own autoworkers out of The Bronx? These are solid middle class jobs and small businesses putting foods on their table, paying mortgages on homes and putting kids through school and college.
The potential casualties of the rezoning are the existing auto industry that lines Jerome Avenue. Born out of a policy to put affordable housing above everything else, the city’s proposal will change zoning distinctions at where automotive shops do business, revising the distinction from commercial to residential effectively putting them in the line of fire for displacement. An August 2017 report by BxCCV notes that the “introduction of housing will displace auto businesses in these areas, as property owners can receive a significantly greater return on their investment for residential uses.”
Yes, the affordable housing stock will increase along Jerome Avenue with the intent of keeping the housing market affordable. But Tom Angotti, an urban planner, retired professor of urban planning at Hunter College, and author of “Zoned Out,” a book on rezonings, notes that’s not always true. Market forces will dictate and cause a speculative jump in land values and rents along Jerome Avenue, where two-thirds of the units are rent-stabilized and vacancy rates are lower than New York City’s average.
Cruz further illustrates the nail in the coffin coming to The Bronx:
This paradox happened in Greenpoint-Williamsburg following the 2005 rezoning. There, thousands of Hispanic families fled while white families began to settle. This came even as nearly 10,000 housing units were built, which included affordable housing. Median incomes rose from $46,255 to $71,325, a 65 percent jump, from 2002 to 2013.
“[T]he increase in development potential led landlords to buy out or evict tenants, while homeowners in affordable units were enticed to leave. And then the affordable units that were built weren’t truly affordable to most local residents. And many of the promised affordable units were not even built,” said Angotti in an email.
Back on Jerome Avenue, the city admits that their rezoning proposal “could” result in 4,000 affordable units. In its Draft Neighborhood Plan updated in October 2017, the city also admitted that only 1,000 of the 4,000 affordable units earmarked for construction will ultimately remain affordable, opening the door for increases.
So there you have it. Even the city acknowledges that this “affordability” promise would only be temporary.
Neighborhoods can be revitalized without having to gentrify them. You can achieve lower crime rates, better schools, higher quality of life outcomes, access to green space, better health outcomes without displacing residents which this rezoning, not if, but when it is approved later this month will do.
Jermaine Wells, a Bronx born and bred actor, has struck gold in getting a supporting role alongside Oscar-winning Whoopi Goldberg (actually she’s one of only twelve people who’ve gotten the coveted EGOT-Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, AND Tony award something that Bronx-raised Rita Moreno has also received).
According to Variety, “Furlough” centers on a woman (Thompson) who lives with and cares for her aging mother (Goldberg), while working part-time at a jail. At work, she is given a chance to show off her abilities when she is assigned to accompany an unruly prisoner (Leo) on an emergency furlough to visit her dying mother. The trip does not go as planned.”
The movie also stars actress and reality tv star LaLa Anthony who Wells gets to play her husband (and Whoopi’s son-in-law).
Furlough will have a limited release at select theaters on March 16.
NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer was a no-show also but sent in a representative.
But what of the people who live in the area who need affordable housing now? What of the people who live along Jerome Avenue in an area defined as one of the most rent-burdened areas of the region as well as some of the highest rates of families facing homelessness?
City Limits writes
Cruz further illustrates the nail in the coffin coming to The Bronx: