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Rent Calculation Problems Dog Many NYCHA Tenants
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Tenants and advocates say NYCHA’s annual and interim review processes leads to routine overcharges and drags tenants into years-long disputes.
affordability
Call for City to Take Aggressive Steps on Affordable Homeownership
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Affordable homeownership was an ingredient in the prescription that brought New York City back from the dead. Now, some experts say, it is homeownership that needs saving in New York.
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Feds Throw a Lifeline to Senior Housing in NYC
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Twenty-year funding contracts could open the door for roof repairs, new boilers, tigher windows and more at dozens of New York City buildings.
HOUSING and DEVELOPMENT
Housing Update: New Worries About Children in Lead-Tainted Apartments
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The housing headlines you missed this week
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One Bushwick, Two Visions: How Local Leaders’ Rezoning Proposal and the City’s Plan Match Up
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There are some similarities between the community and city rezoning proposals but the differences are important to Bushwick community members who say they have waited for decades for serious public investments in their neighborhood.
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The Disappearing 3-Bedroom: Larger Families Have Few Affordable Options in NYC
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The housing market is shedding three-bedroom units, and the mayor’s affordable-housing plan is producing few of them, leaving larger families in cramped quarters.
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Housing Update: Landlords Push Back, NYCHA Budget Doesn’t Budge, Bay St. Rezoning Approved
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Housing headlines you might have missed.
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Rent Board Approves 1.5% Hike, Angering Tenants and Landlords Alike
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The increases, which will affect leases signed after October 1, came despite calls for a rent freeze from housing and tenant advocacy groups, and amid demands from property owners for more generous hikes.
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Opinion: De Blasio’s RGB Must not Undo Progress Made in Albany for Tenants
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In order for the reforms in Albany to be powerful, the city has to do its part and help keep rents affordable.
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Passing Rent Reform Was One Thing. Now it Has to be Enforced.
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Sweeping rent reforms are now law. Exactly how the letter of that legislation translates into reality will depend in large part on how the state’s Division of Homes and Community Renewal publicizes and enforces it.