Both inside and outside the Rent Guidelines Board’s public hearing Thursday, tenants and landlords shouted, booed, and jeered at each other in almost equal measure over future rents for regulated…
“The core problem with New York’s housing affordability is not, at its heart, a rent regulation problem. It is a divergence problem. Rents for existing affordable units have become increasingly…
“No organizamos un desfile solo por celebrar. Desde el principio, ha sido una iniciativa impulsada por la comunidad para garantizar nuestra seguridad en un barrio con un largo historial de…
“We don’t do a parade just to be festive. From the beginning this has been a community-led effort to keep ourselves safe in a neighborhood with a long history of…
Inspections by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development are one of the only tools NYCHA tenants have for securing overdue repairs. But tenants and legal advocates say scheduling…
“The impact of this is already visible across New York’s shelter system. Many families are working, trying to secure housing, and ready to move forward. But they cannot afford to…
A post-pandemic boom in e-commerce correlated with statewide health inequities that are hitting low-income communities the hardest, the report found. “The reason why a lot of these warehouses are placed…
The Mamdani administration claimed a partial victory when it got the new owner of 5,000 rent stabilized units to promise repairs and to clear housing code violations. It looks like…
Homeless New Yorkers and advocates say the legislation—which now heads to Gov. Kathy Hochul for final approval—will ensure people living in shelters have reliable internet service as they search for…
