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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

At a time when New York’s rent stabilization laws are slowly disappearing, housing is more expensive than ever. Issue 17 of our 30 Issue in 30 Days series looks at whether New York needs a new generation of rent laws. Plus: the pros and cons of sharing a bed.

300 Million and 1

Sam Roberts, reporter, columnist and editor for The New York Times, and author, Who We Are Now: The Changing Face of American in the Twenty-first Century (Times Books 2004)
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Marcelo Suarez Orozco, founder of the Harvard Immigration ...

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Look Back to See Ahead

Daniel Beaty, actor, singer, writer, composer and spoken-word poet, creator and performer of Emergence-See!
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Kenny Leon, director of "Emergence-See!" at the Public Theater, as well as recent Broadway productions of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean and the revival of Raisin in the Sun

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30 Issues in 30 Days: Affordable Housing

Steven Spinola, president, Real Estate Board of New York
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Bernie Carr, executive director of the New York State Association for Affordable Housing
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Brad Lander, director of Pratt Institutes Center for Community Development (PICCED), at ...

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Two's Company

Paul Rosenblatt, professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota and author, Two in a Bed: The Social system of Couple Bed Sharing (State University of New York Press, 2006)

Prof. Rosenblatt’s essay in The New York Times

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Daniel Beaty




Daniel Beaty

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Daniel Beaty, actor, singer, writer, composer and spoken-word poet, creator and performer of "Emergence-See!"

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Kenny Leon




Kenny Leon

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Kenny Leon, director of "Emergence-See!" at the Public Theater, as well as recent Broadway productions of August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean" and ...

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