What will Bloomberg’s ambitious housing plan mean for New York’s poor? For community development groups? For your neighborhood? The lowdown, in five parts.
It was good news/bad news at last Thursday’s housing budget hearing, as Councilmembers learned the city’s housing agency is losing some money — and gaining other funds.
While budgets are tight, the city’s housing agency has managed in recent years to up its efforts to preserve the existing housing stock by making more emergency repairs and taking…
The Bloomberg administration is suing the City Council for a law the legislators say will curtail predatory lending, and the mayor argues will discourage banks from doing business in the…
As tenants and landlords fight for changes in the state’s rent laws, a set of figures used by some property owners to argue that the regulations should be loosened could…
After enduring years of rat infestations
and broken elevators, hundreds of tenants in two Hamilton Heights
apartment buildings last week finally got the message they’d been waiting for
— their…
A Bush proposal to reward companies that pay their income taxes could end up hurting a decades-old tax credit program that helps boost the creation of affordable housing.
A family of seven that lost its apartment to a fire just before the New Year has spent the last several weeks sleeping on friends’ couches as they challenge the…