Patrick Spauster, Author at City Limits

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‘Honor His Promise’: Advocates Criticize Mamdani’s CityFHEPS Reversal, and What Else Happened This Week in Housing

Mayor Zohran Mamdani pledged to expand eligibility for city housing vouchers according to City Council laws that his predecessor failed to implement. Faced with steep fiscal challenges, he said the city…

ByJeanmarie Evelly

ByPatrick Spauster 8 minRead time

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Feb 2026

Featured Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations Land Use and Development

The New ‘Poor Door’: Amenity Fees Are Too High for Affordable Housing Tenants

Tenants who get affordable housing through the city’s lottery or a rental assistance voucher often can’t afford amenity fees in new mixed-income luxury buildings, creating what one described as a…

ByPatrick Spauster 17 minRead time

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Feb 2026

Climate and Environment Government Health Homelessness Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

NYC’s Deadly Cold Spell Continues, And What Else Happened This Week in Housing

Seventeen New Yorkers have died outdoors in recent weeks amid freezing temperatures, which are expected to dip again this weekend. Local homeless advocates urged the city Friday to flood the…

ByJeanmarie Evelly

ByPatrick Spauster 7 minRead time

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Feb 2026

Featured Government Health Housing and Homelessness In Depth

Amid NYC Cold Snap, Tenants Report Most ‘No Heat’ Complaints on Record

The city received nearly 80,000 calls about lack of residential heat and hot water in January, more than any other month on record. Some tenants say their buildings are falling…

ByPatrick Spauster 12 minRead time

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Jan 2026

Featured Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Politics Resources

Council Lets Eric Adams’ COPA Veto Stand, and What Else Happened this Week in Housing

Council progressives had hoped they could convince fellow lawmakers to override former Mayor Adams’ veto and pass the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act. But new Speaker Menin, who abstained from…

ByJeanmarie Evelly

ByPatrick Spauster 9 minRead time

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Jan 2026

Featured Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness In Depth

Can Mamdani Afford to Expand the CityFHEPS Voucher Program?

Zohran Mamdani promised to expand eligibility for the CityFHEPS rental voucher program to people with slightly higher incomes and households at risk of eviction, but a larger than expected fiscal…

ByPatrick Spauster 12 minRead time

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Jan 2026

Featured Government Housing and Homelessness Justice Politics

Judge Approves Sale of More Than 5,000 Rent Stabilized Apartments in Pinnacle Portfolio

A bankruptcy court judge approved the sale of a troubled portfolio of rent stabilized units to Summit Properties after their bank made additional funds available for repairs. Tenants and Mayor…

ByPatrick Spauster 7 minRead time

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Jan 2026

Featured Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Profiles

Meet New York State’s New Top Tenant Advocate

“What was so powerful about the rent freeze campaign is that we reached scale in New York City,” said Sumathy Kumar, the new director for Housing Justice for All and…

ByPatrick Spauster 13 minRead time

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Jan 2026

Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development NYCHA Politics Resources

Judge Blocks Mamdani’s Bid to Delay Pinnacle Sale, and What Else Happened in Housing This Week

A bankruptcy judge denied a motion from the Mamdani administration to delay an auction of 5,000 rent stabilized units tenants hoped to preserve, in an early blow to the mayor’s…

ByJeanmarie Evelly

ByPatrick Spauster 7 minRead time

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Jan 2026

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Politics

City Planning Director Dan Garodnick, Key to ‘City of Yes’ Passage, To Step Down

During four years at the agency’s helm, Garodnick helped pass the first major citywide rezoning in decades and rezoned five neighborhoods. Mayor Mamdani will have to pick a new head…

ByPatrick Spauster 4 minRead time

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