“The Rebirth NYCHA Needs Now”
Read this September 17 editorial in The Daily News by Rebecca Karp, CEO of urban planning consultancy Karp Strategies, and Nicholas Bloom, professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College:
“[NYCHA’s Connected Communities] Guidebook offers a new set of equity-focused, community-driven guidelines for improving the living experience of NYCHA residents — among whom are many of the essential workers who have carried our city through the COVID crisis — with well-designed open spaces, modern playgrounds, deeper integration with surrounding neighborhoods, new community facilities, and sensitive redevelopment that can provide more housing at a time when homelessness in NYC is at an all-time high.”
Photo caption: A rendering of the “Opening the Edge” Connected Communities project.
