A year into NextGeneration NYCHA, earlier fears the revenue would fall short appear to have been unfounded. But the authority’s budget gaps remain large.
Unlike other neighborhoods slated for a rezoning, the city’s Economic Development Corporation is taking the lead in planning a new future for this chunk on northern Manhattan.
A bonus given landlords when a rent-stabilized tenant moves out is blamed for a huge share of the rise in rents citywide. Meanwhile, other new research suggests a key rent-relief…
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…
