“It’s covering cars. It’s clogging air conditioners,” said Kimberly Comes, a tenant at NYCHA’s Redfern Houses. She and neighbors hope to close the construction debris recycling facility across the street,…
A new rental assistance program launching this week will help some low income households afford rent. But its reach is far smaller than advocates hoped, and isn’t keeping up with…
“So many of these issues are interrelated, but so often treated as existing in silos,” says Department of Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park, who departs this week after three…
New work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, took effect on March 1. Around 123,000 New Yorkers will have to comply with the…
Squatters took up illegal residence in hundreds of empty NYCHA apartments in recent years, as the units waited for often extensive repair work before they could be rented out again.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani met with Donald Trump during a surprise visit to the White House Thursday, where he pitched the president on funding the development of 12,000 new apartments —…
At Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first public hearing for renters, attendees bemoaned slow repairs, a frustrating 311 system, and unresponsive landlords. Some NYCHA tenants, meanwhile, felt slighted by the event, which…
Almost 3,000 city households in federally subsidized housing, including Section 8 and NYCHA, have members with mixed immigration statuses who would be impacted by the change, advocates said.
A residential housing project in Bayside, Queens, is winning the support of housing-skeptical Councilmember Vickie Paladino due the threat of a new voter-approved appeals process that could override her objections.
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