Craig Gurian

Craig Gurian

Craig Gurian is the editor of Remapping Debate and the executive director of the Anti-Discrimination Center. Outside Remapping, his writing has been published in the Guardian (U.S.), Bloomberg CityLab, the Daily Beast, the New York Daily News, Vital City, and Gotham Gazette. Craig's published legal writing includes Let Them Rent Cake: George Pataki, Market Ideology, and the Attempt to Dismantle Rent Regulation in New York and A Return to Eyes on The Prize: Litigating Under the Restored New York City Human Rights Law. Craig's undergraduate degree, law degree, and master's degree in U.S. history are all from Columbia.

 

“If it can be successfully done 20, 30, 35 years down the road, then I don't see a reason why it couldn't be done and set up from the onset.”
Matt Dunbar, Habitat of NYC and Westchester

Market-rate condos as an affordable housing tool?

Original Reporting | By Craig Gurian
Legislation recently enacted by New York State as part of its budget process directly offers the prospect of preserving several thousand affordable housing units at risk for losing their tenant protections, and indirectly raises the question of why an obvious set of tools aren’t being used to change the day-to-day reality of luxury condominium buildings being developed with zero percent affordable units included.

Do they know it's truly an emergency?

Commentary | By Craig Gurian
Most of the candidates running for mayor of New York City have explicitly described the Trump administration as creating an emergency for the city, including in their assessments the prospect of reduced federal funding. But it is unclear how much they appreciate fully the impact of what is likely coming. They do, however, appear to be united in not admitting that emergencies require sacrifice.
“What is clear is that they do not want to tell the voting public that emergencies often have deeply unpleasant consequences, not all of which can be warded off.”

Even the easy stuff isn't so easy

Commentary | By Craig Gurian
How hard should it be to get broad agreement on “unless and until you get the rules changed, follow them”? Not very. But achieving that consensus sometimes seems an impossible dream in New York City, a place where you’re generally not doing your rule-breaking in splendid isolation but rather in ways that have real impacts on others.
“Romanticizing and idealizing (go-to indulgences on the left) and grievance and demonization (animating principles on the right) are no small part of the problem.”

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