City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

45th Avenue in Long Island City, Queens.The City Planning Commission Wednesday will hold a public hearing on a proposed rezoning of the area. (Adi Talwar/City Limits)

Welcome to City Limits’ NYC Housing Calendar, a weekly feature where we round up the latest housing and land use-related events and hearings, as well as upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

Know of an event we should include in next week’s calendar? Email us.

Upcoming Housing and Land Use-Related Events:

Monday, July 28 at 1 p.m.: The City Planning Commission will hold a review session. More here.

Tuesday, July 29 at 6 p.m.: Brooklyn’s Black Lady Theatre presents Stolen Spaces, an evening of urgent conversation on deed theft, homeownership, and the fight to reclaim stolen spaces in NYC. More here.

Wednesday, July 30 at 10 a.m.: NYCHA’s board will hold its monthly meeting. More here.

Wednesday, July 30 at 10 a.m.: The City Planning Commission will hold a public meeting where its members will vote on the following land use applications: Broadway Junction Station City Map Amendment, JFK Conduit Logistics Center Demapping, and The Hillside Swimming Club, Inc. It will hold public hearings on the following proposals: Domino Site B, Ikos Senior Living, and the Long Island City Neighborhood Plan. More here.

Friday, Aug. 1, 5 to 8 p.m.: The Department of City Planning will have a table at the corner of Mulberry and Baxter streets in Chinatown to share information about Mayor Adams’ Manhattan Plan, which aims to build 100,000 new units of housing in Manhattan over the next decade. More here.

NYC Affordable Housing Lotteries Ending Soon: The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) are closing lotteries on the following subsidized buildings over the next week.

185 Chrystie Street Apartments, Manhattan, for households earning between $39,943 – $140,000 (last day to apply is 7/28)

271 East 28th Street Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $79,646 – $116,640 (last day to apply is 7/28)

Williamsburg Wharf A1 aka 482 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, for households earning between $68,812 – $140,000 (last day to apply is 7/28)

The Brook, Brooklyn, for households earning between $64,766 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 8/1)

46-06 11th Street Apartments, Queens, for households earning between $102,446 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 8/4)

55 Broad Street Apartments, Manhattan, for households earning between $37,578 – $200,900 (last day to apply is 8/4)

706 East 32nd Street Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $103,303 – $189,540 (last day to apply is 8/4)

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BOULDER, Colorado — Deion Sanders already has a victory under his belt in 2025. The Colorado University Buffaloes football coach announced Monday that he beat bladder cancer.

The CU Buffs coach addressed his health Monday at the CU Touchdown Club adjacent to Folsom Field. He was flanked at the table by Dr. Janet Kukreja, director of Urologic Oncology at CU Cancer Center, and by Lauren Askevold, CU’s assistant athletic trainer.

Sanders was diagnosed with an aggressive cancerous tumor in his bladder during a health check-up this past spring.

The coach had his bladder removed. Kukreja said he is now cancer-free.

“We’re gonna beat this, (aren’t) we?” Sanders asked Kukreja Monday.

“It’s beaten,” she replied.

Sanders, 57, has coached through health challenges before. The Pro Football Hall-of-Famer missed three games with Jackson State in 2021. He’s battled blood clot issues in the past, and had surgery to address a clot in his right leg in 2023.

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Askevold said the tumor was diagnosed during CU’s spring football practices this past April and that the surgery was completed by early May.

The CU coach was notably absent from June camps in Boulder, leading to multiple reports that Sanders was still dealing with an unspecified health issue that would keep him away from campus.

The Florida native told Asante Samuel that he recently had lost 14 pounds. Sanders said Monday that he’d dropped about 25 pounds.

Coach Prime encouraged men to “get checked … without wonderful people like this, I wouldn’t be sitting here today.”

The Buffs opened their preseason camp this week and will start the 2025 season on August 29 at Folsom Field against Georgia Tech. Coach Prime indicated he intended to return to work as normal when asked how much he had relied on his staff while he was getting treatment.

“Rely on my staff?” Sanders replied. “I’m back, baby.”

WEST FORK, Ark. (AP) — Police in Arkansas were searching Monday for a suspect in the deaths of a couple who investigators said were attacked while on a wooded walking trail with their two young daughters.

Clinton David Brink, 43, and Cristen Amanda Brink, 41, were found dead Saturday at Devil’s Den State Park in Washington County in a suspected homicide, Arkansas State Police said.

Their daughters, who are 7 and 9, were not hurt and are being cared for by family members.

“Clinton and Cristen died heroes protecting their little girls, and they deserve justice,” the Brink family said in a statement provided to ABC News. “They will forever live in all of our hearts.”

Officials described the suspect as a white male wearing dark shorts, a dark ballcap, sunglasses and fingerless gloves. He was seen driving toward a park exit in a black, four-door sedan with a license plate partly covered by tape.

The car, possibly a Mazda, may have been traveling on State Highway 170 or State Highway 220 near the park in a rural, wooded area with limited cellphone service, police said.

“We are heartbroken by today’s horrific news from Devil’s Den State Park and are in close contact with State Police and the Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism as they work to apprehend the suspect,” Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement over the weekend. “We are praying for the family and friends of the victims, and know that law enforcement will not rest until the perpetrator is brought to justice.”

Devil’s Den is located near West Fork, about 136 miles northwest of Little Rock. The 2,500-acre park is known for its hiking trails and rock formations, and is a short drive from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and Walmart’s Bentonville headquarters.

Shea Lewis, secretary of the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism, said rangers had stepped up patrols at Devil’s Den.

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“Our hearts are with the victims’ loved ones during this incredibly difficult time,” Lewis said in a statement Sunday. “The safety of our visitors and staff is our highest priority, and we are working closely with Arkansas State Police and various law enforcement officials as the investigation continues.”

Investigators asked for potential witnesses to review their photos and videos from the park south of Fayetteville. There was no information about a possible motive.

“We’re just really hoping that anybody who captured any video or pictures or anything suspicious, just let us know,” State Police spokesperson Nick Genty said. “We’re investigating any and all tips that we get.”

Officials said the victims had recently moved to Prairie Grove, Arkansas, from another state. Their bodies were taken to the state crime lab, where the manner and cause of death will be determined.

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Food insecurity is rising in many parts of Africa, with the number of people unable to afford a healthy diet surpassing 1 billion — some two-thirds of the continent’s population — in 2024, according to a United Nations report published Monday.

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The prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in Africa is more than double the global average of 28%, whereas figures from Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Oceania don’t reach that mark, the report said.

The annual report, produced by five U.N. agencies, analyzes trends in efforts to achieve the goal of zero hunger around the world by 2030. Those agencies include the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Program.

An estimated 8.2% of the global population may have faced hunger in 2024, down from 8.5% in 2023 and 8.7% in 2022, a positive trend that “contrasts with the steady rise in hunger in most subregions of Africa” and in western Asia, or parts of the Middle East and South Asia, the report said.

The prevalence of undernourishment, a key measure of progress, surpassed 20% in Africa and rose to 12.7% in western Asia, it said.

The report is the latest to suggest that eliminating food insecurity universally remains a serious challenge. Africa remains the most vulnerable continent.

According to the current projection, 512 million people in the world may be chronically undernourished in 2030, with nearly 60% of them to be found in Africa, the report said.

“We must urgently reverse this trajectory,” said Máximo Torero, chief economist with the FAO.

A major mark of distress is the number of Africans unable to afford a healthy diet. While the global figure fell from 2.76 billion in 2019 to 2.6 billion in 2024, the number increased in Africa from 864 million to just over 1 billion during the same period.

That means the vast majority of Africans are unable to eat well on the continent of 1.5 billion people.

The U.N. warned in a report in October that conflicts, economic instability and climate shocks — in addition to reduced funding for emergency food and agriculture assistance — were driving alarming levels of acute food insecurity in 22 “hunger hot spots.”

That report, by FAO and WFP, mentioned Sudan, South Sudan, Haiti, Mali and the Palestinian territories as being of the “highest concern level.”

Chad, Lebanon, Myanmar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Syria and Yemen were classified as “hotspots of very high concern,” where large numbers of people faced or were projected to face critical levels of acute food insecurity.

Torero, the FAO chief economist, said the situation in Africa is “concerning,” driven in part by the failure of agricultural production to keep up with population growth in many areas.

At the same time, he said, many parts of Africa face violent conflict and setbacks stemming from climate change.

“These shocks interact and reinforce each other, weakening already fragile agrifood systems,” he said, speaking about the latest U.N. report. “Conflict zones such as Sudan and the Sahel face particularly acute challenges. Additionally, climate poses a serious threat, particularly to the most vulnerable populations.”