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State’s Window for COVID Rent Relief Reopens Amid Criticism

By Jarrett Murphy | July 31, 2020

Applications will be accepted through August 6.

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Jennifer Bryant

Rent Calculation Problems Dog Many NYCHA Tenants

By Harry DiPrinzio | September 30, 2019

Tenants and advocates say NYCHA’s annual and interim review processes leads to routine overcharges and drags tenants into years-long disputes. 

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Call for City to Take Aggressive Steps on Affordable Homeownership

By Jarrett Murphy | September 27, 2019

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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senior housing

Feds Throw a Lifeline to Senior Housing in NYC

By Jarrett Murphy | September 17, 2019

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

By Harry DiPrinzio | July 12, 2019

The housing headlines you missed this week

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myrtle Avenue Bushwick

One Bushwick, Two Visions: How Local Leaders’ Rezoning Proposal and the City’s Plan Match Up

By Sadef Ali Kully | July 9, 2019

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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Crowded apartment

The Disappearing 3-Bedroom: Larger Families Have Few Affordable Options in NYC

By Rachel Rippetoe | July 2, 2019

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

By Harry DiPrinzio | July 1, 2019

Housing headlines you might have missed.

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Rent Board Approves 1.5% Hike, Angering Tenants and Landlords Alike

By Sadef Ali Kully | June 26, 2019

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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Mayor de Blasio

Opinion: De Blasio’s RGB Must not Undo Progress Made in Albany for Tenants

By Ava Farkas and Delsenia Glover | June 25, 2019

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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