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Managing Homelessness in New York City: A Review of Mayoral Homelessness Plans
This is my undergraduate research capstone offering an analysis of homeless management plans from the Bloomberg, de Blasio and Adams administrations. I posit that the city’s ultimate goal is not to eliminate homelessness, but to manage it in a way that creates new avenues for investment and policing.
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Eric Adams’ Homeless Plan is Forced Institutionalization
This blog post contains portions of my ongoing research project that discuss Eric Adams’ 2022 Subway Safety Plan. After Jordan Neely’s public lynching by Daniel Penny on May 3, 2023, I find it important to address how the mayor’s rhetoric paved the way for Jordan’s death. Adams’ fearmongering around crime and homelessness, in collaboration with…
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The Green New Deal and Possibilities for Full Employment
Written April 2021 Introduction In this paper I will offer an analysis of The Green New Deal, a bill introduced in 2019 by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other congressional colleagues. I will specifically focus on the possibilities for Federal employment programs that operate within the goals set forth in the Green New Deal. Drawing on…
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The Successes of Mass Incarceration: Race Making and State Control
Written May 2021 INTRODUCTION Mass incarceration describes the phenomenon of rapid and racially disproportionate prison growth in the United States. For much of American history the U.S. prison population remained fairly stable at around 100 prisoners per 100,000 people. In the early 1970s the rate of incarceration took a stark upward turn. Over the next…
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The Future of Sex Work
Natalie Cassar – December 2021 Sex work exists in an informal labor market marked by criminalization and stigmatization. It comes with its own set of assumptions: human trafficking, desperation, exploitation and coercion. It has been widely criminalized by the state and strictly policed by law enforcement, media platforms, and financial institutions. Sex work is more…
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Financialization’s Impact on Residential Vacancies in New York City
Introduction In New York City, there were 353,830 total vacant apartments held off the market as of 2021.1 There were 61,000 vacant rent stabilized units, more than initially reported by the NYC 2021 Housing and Vacancy Survey.2 Despite the staggering number of vacant apartments, New York City had an average nightly shelter population of 60,252…