The Bronx is the most affordable borough in the city, but its low-income families also have the hardest time affording the rents they’re charged—which are rising. Bronx Housing Court sees…
Reforms of housing court have done little to change the way business is done there: Via deals negotiated by landlord lawyers in the hallway with tenants who rarely get the…
Add another issue to the debate over renewing rent regulations: Current law allows landlords who’ve charged lower than legal rent to suddenly hike the monthly charge to the maximum level,…
Councilman Jumaane Williams
Just last week, Mayor de Blasio said the city had in his first year of office financed 17,300 units of affordable housing toward his goal of preserving or…
At a weekend forum, officials of the cash-strapped housing authority convinced some resident leaders that they were making real progress on repairs. Questions remain about NYCHA’s deeper issues.
Gov. Cuomo oversaw a strengthening of the rent rules in 2011 and the next year created the TPU.
Every year when the city's Rent Guideline Board meets to discuss how…
The federal government’s failure to maintain the value of rent subsidies is one reason why older New Yorkers increasingly end up in homeless shelters or on friends’ couches.
Major Capital Improvements allow rent-stabilized landlords to exceed authorized rent increases when paying off a new roof, boiler or other large expense. Long-standing tenant complaints about fraud are part of…
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