The Commission on Human Rights has enforced a law banning discrimination against Section 8 renters. New reporting indicates more of that enforcement is needed.
Ritchie Torres credits the mayor for taking unprecedented steps to shore up the fiscally challenged public housing authority. But he feels that NYCHA’s untapped political power must be harnessed to…
It’s been the city’s practice for two decades to sell property-tax debts to a private trust, generating revenue for the city and for investors—but, advocates say, hurting low-income homeowners.
City and state officials say they are doing all they can to preserve a critical affordable housing resource. Some tenants think more action is possible, like requiring coop boards to…
The de Blasio administration has shown openness to community land trusts but organizations, not the city, are taking the boldest steps toward trying what backers say offers the best chance…
Thirty-one years ago today, demonstrators furious over generous subsidies to luxury developers descended on a gleaming poster-child for corporate welfare—the flagship property of the man now poised to be the…
The administration says it will use subsidies, not zoning, to serve New Yorkers with extremely low incomes. But with all the costs and tradeoffs that entails, how many deeply affordable…
That plan for Flushing mapped out by a business group later accused of unethical activity—did that merely set the stage or does it call the tune for the pending city…
A federal court is considering whether federal law prohibits the city’s policy of setting aside 50 percent of apartments in new, subsidized buildings for local residents.
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