Facing a growing fiscal crisis and crumbling infrastructure, City Hall has called for building affordable housing—and, in some cases, market-rate apartments—on Housing Authority land as part of a broad strategy…
The panel that decides how much landlords can hike the rent on nearly a million stabilized apartments has four hearings coming up. But you don’t have to show up to…
A former HPD official referred to as “the Tall Guy” in court papers is due to be sentenced soon for his role in a major Bloomberg-era bribery scandal. With a…
The Housing Authority’s Tenant Associations are supposed to rally residents to fight for their interests. But while some leaders (like Jonathan Gardenhire, above, the vice president of Smith Houses’ TA)…
Everyone knows higher rents have forced many families out of their apartments in rapidly gentrifying Bushwick. But no one has bothered to count them or figure out where they went.
The mayor wants to end vacancy decontrol and vacancy bonuses and limit the rent hikes a landlord can impose when a major capital project or individual apartment improvement is completed.
Tenant organizers are putting the pressure on Democrats who have yet to back a bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal to repeal a mechanism blamed for stripping tens of thousands…
But a second-generation Mitchell-Lama program would have to reconcile some problematic rhetoric around class and resolve some of the flaws that have stripped affordability from tens of thousands of units…
The suit by residents of the Castle Hill Houses is the latest legal action charging NYCHA with failing to adequately maintain its 334 developments, which house some 400,000 New Yorkers.…
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