Year-round residents and wealthy summer visitors lock horns over housing and fighting erosion on an island off the coast of Massachusetts.
Rebecca Nathanson
Rebecca Nathanson is a freelance journalist based in New York. She has written for Al Jazeera America, n+1, NewYorker.com, The Nation, The Progressive, RollingStone.com, The Village Voice, and more.
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New York Libraries Turn the Page on Public Control
To alleviate their funding woes and the wider affordable housing crisis, city libraries are selling off land to real-estate developers. Is this privatization gambit worth the risk?
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Can Affordable Housing Activists Save New York?
In the working-class Manhattan neighborhood of Inwood, community organizers who beat back plans for a high-rise luxury apartment building are taking their affordable housing campaign city-wide.