Central Current hosted in March an interactive panel conversation featuring advocates and experts working to fix Syracuse’s housing crisis.
Three experts and advocates who have been involved in work around Syracuse’s housing crisis talked about the numbers behind the crisis and potential solutions. If you missed the panel, you can watch it below.
The panelists included:
- Maxmilian Eyle, Central Current Executive Director
- Eddie Velazquez, Central Current contributor
- Sylvia Espinosa de los Monteros, staff attorney at Volunteer Lawyers Project Of CNY’s tenant defense program
- Alex Lawson, housing policty manager at CNY Fair Housing
- Alex Marion, city of Syracuse Auditor
If you want to read more about the housing crisis, you can read more here:
- For the 1st time in more than a decade, family homelessness outpaces individual homelessness in Central New York
- Syracuse faces a housing crisis. Here’s what we know.
- How 3 advocates would address Syracuse’s housing crisis
- ‘Good cause’ becomes a cold case as Syracuse Common Council pulls legislation for more ‘investigation’
- Syracuse auditor: City needs to get serious about rental registry
Read more of Central Current’s coverage
Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon vetoes term limits — for now
McMahon said he would consider signing a law limiting the number of terms he could serve if it also addressed the county comptroller.
Parents, community members rally in support of F-M student who read Palestinian poem
At a recent F-M school board meeting, community members spoke out about the district’s response to the reading of a Palestinian poem at Fayetteville-Manlius High School.
Meet the 3 Democrats vying for the party line in the race for an at-large seat on the Syracuse Common Council
Councilor Helen Hudson faces two progressive challengers: Cjala Surratt, a longtime community organizer, Moise Laub, a city schools budget analyst.
Sean Kirst: Saturday’s literacy parade ‘lights a candle’ for new dream for Hayden home
Light A Candle For Literacy organizers envision a community literacy center in revered Midland Avenue house.
Sean Kirst: At Brighton Academy, Alfonzo Whitehurst’s gutsiest coaching move was sharing his own story
An emotional team meeting offered lessons that will resonate far beyond one flag football season.