Evictions are likely to spike after the statewide moratorium on evictions lifts Aug. 31. A national moratorium ended July 31.
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Rochester tenant’s battle with landlord, rodents persists
Linda Barger is still waiting for her landlord to make court-ordered repairs to her apartment.
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Feedback 2/5/20: Webster lettuce and NIMBYism, rigged elections, Rochester’s housing crisis
This week’s letter writers examine the Great Webster Lettuce Dispute, the upcoming 27th Congressional District election, and Rochester’s affordable housing shortage.
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Council approves Rochester 2034 plan
It’ll replace the city’s previous comprehensive plan, which was completed in 1999.
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Our Land Roc Earth Day celebration
Our Land Roc, a coalition of more than 30 neighborhood, community, and activist groups, organized an Earth Day celebration at Parcel 5. The event included music from Claude Bennington’s Fever Dream, some informational tables from coalition members, and a couple of hands-on gardening demonstrations. The coalition started the event with a press conference calling on the […]
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Housing trust gears up
Liz McGriff’s fight to regain ownership of her Cedarwood Terrace house has stretched over five years, but soon that struggle could be over. McGriff fell behind on her mortgage payments after she lost her job with the US Postal Service. The loan’s owner, MidFirst Bank, foreclosed on the property. But McGriff has managed to resist […]
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No city loan to Morgan
City Council rejected a proposal yesterday for a $1.5 million loan to developer Robert Morgan for a residential project at 103 Court Street at South Avenue. In a 5-to-3 vote, Councilmembers Loretta Scott, Jackie Ortiz, Matt Haag, Molly Clifford, and Carolee Conklin voted against the measure. Voting for it: Elaine Spaull, Dana Miller, and Adam […]
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Feedback 11/5
Send comments to themail@rochester-citynews.com, or post them on our website, rochestercitynewspaper.com, our Facebook page, or our Twitter feed, @roccitynews. For our print edition, we select comments from all three sources, and we edit selections for publication in print. We don’t publish comments sent to other media. Rochester gets sharrows wrong I read with interest the […]
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Feedback 1/8
Affordable housing and concentrated poverty I recently retired after spending 25 years trying to develop affordable housing in suburban Monroe County. The nonprofit development corporation for which I worked had a mission to develop one unit in the suburbs of Monroe County for every unit developed in the City of Rochester. This was one small […]
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Gillibrand pushes for brownfields bill
For more than 25 years, the Cunningham Carriage Factory building at 33 Litchfield Street in the Susan B. Anthony Neighborhood sat vacant. That changed when DePaul, a nonprofit housing and social services organization, bought the property and began developing it into housing. Now, construction crews are stripping the sturdy brick building down to its bones. From […]
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Mayor talks homelessness ahead of activists’ march
Rochester Mayor Tom Richards and leaders of human service agencies in the city and county held a press conference this morning to explain everything the city does for the area’s homeless. It can’t be a coincidence that members of many social-justice groups, including Take Back the Land-Rochester and Metro Justice, will hold a housing march […]
