“As hard and unlikely as Mamdani’s victory may have been, turning from the promises of a campaign to the tasks of governing well and fairly will be harder still. He…
Dozens of public housing apartments will get plug-in induction ranges as part of the initiative, which aims to eventually shift 10,000 NYCHA homes off the use of polluting fossil fuel appliances.
Developers and New York City are building homes in factories and propping them up on vacant lots in the outer boroughs. Proponents say it can significantly cut down on construction…
At the City Council’s last stated meeting of 2025, lawmakers passed bills requiring city-funded housing projects to include a certain number of family-sized apartments and deeply affordable units—against opposition from…
Five years after it was introduced, the City Council passed a revised version of the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, or COPA, which supporters say will give mission-driven groups a…
In 2025, NYCHA closed on the financing for repairs at 16 developments through the controversial PACT program, and moved ahead on renovation plans for two other public housing campuses funded…
“Voters have endorsed efforts to make development more efficient. But streamlining alone will not help solve the housing crisis if the city’s agencies lack the resources to implement these reforms,…
“New York City, long positioned at the forefront of housing innovation, is falling behind,” the author writes. “The most effective innovations happen when residents are treated as partners with authority and…
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