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.

 

The City Council part of the mayoral equation

Commentary | By Craig Gurian
On Primary Day, you want to know "who is winning?" Leading up to the general election, "What will the candidate be able to accomplish or block" needs to be among the questions posed. That means taking the Council into account.
“Will the candidate have enough Council support to back his initiatives and to block measures he wants stopped?”

Hochul's "Pro-Housing Community" program so far falling flat

Original Reporting | By Craig Gurian
A large percentage of municipalities in Westchester and Nassau Counties — two of the beating hearts of exclusionary zoning in the New York City metropolitan area — are saying in effect, “No, thank you, we like our exclusion just the way we have it.” The lack of progress is especially apparent in municipalities with the lowest percentages of non-Hispanic Black residents.

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.
Affordable housing

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.”

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