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New York Governor Kathy Hochul announces $200 million grant program to attract high-tech industries across the state

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The grants will be disbursed through Empire State Development (ESD), the umbrella organization for New York’s two principal economic development financing entities: The New York State Urban Development Corporation and the New York Job Development Authority.

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"The best tool for empowering people is through affordable housing," says architect Victor Body-Lawson

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Body-Lawson gave the example of a recent request to redevelop an area of Brooklyn that has been historically redlined – the process by which majority-Black neighbourhoods were excluded from housing finance. The city had essentially gone out to the communities to reach out to get a sense of what [the community] felt," he said.

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It Won't Be Over Soon: How Will COVID Change the World?

Community Architect

Possibly the US will face European conditions where art is a social service largely financed by taxes. But do we want to live in communities where restaurants are as rare as in the 1950s, where there are no art house movie theaters, no symphonies, no art galleries, museums and theaters?

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