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.
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Video: Does NYC Need a Comprehensive Plan?
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New York’s approach to land use has plenty of defenders. There are, however, those who disagree. ‘The current system exacerbates our worst selves rather than our best selves,’ a Brooklyn Councilmember told a City Limits panel Thursday night.
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Doubts on the Details of the City’s Bushwick Rezoning Proposal
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Some are worried proposed height limits leave too much room for developers, or too little room for homeowners who want to sell. Affordability options and a playground project are also on residents’ minds.
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Tenants, Landlords Will Testify on New York’s Rent Laws
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With the date for state rent laws to expire approaching, the Senate Majority announced Monday a series of public hearings will be held on rent regulation and tenant protection issues.