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  December 08, 2022 CBS New York

  Fair Chance for Housing Act up for hearing

  The bill would keep landlords from considering a potential tenant's criminal past when renting out apartments.

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  December 06, 2022 The Chief

  Backers seek ‘Clean Slate’ passage in new year

  Legislation would expunge most criminal records, clear obstacles to jobs, housing

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  December 05, 2022 City Limits

  NYC Needs Thousands of Apartments for the Formerly Incarcerated. 50 Face Furious Opposition

  “Just Home”—a NYC Health + Hospitals (HHC) plan to convert an empty staff residence on the Jacobi Hospital campus into supportive housing for a few dozen people with serious medical problems discharged from Rikers Island—is a pressure cooker for many of the most fraught issues in the city: homelessness, mental health, development, and the risk of crime, whether real or perceived.

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  December 05, 2022 The New York Times

  Letter: Stopping the Deaths in New York City Jails

  The writer is the president and C.E.O. of the Fortune Society.

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  December 02, 2022 AMNY

  Council bill to bar landlords from running criminal background checks on prospective tenants faces pushback ahead of first hearing

  A City Council bill that would mostly bar landlords from conducting criminal background checks on prospective tenants is facing intense backlash from a small group of council members, even as a majority of the body has signaled support for the measure.

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