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Brooklyn Waterfront Towers Rezoning Advances, and What Else Happened This Week in Housing

Councilmember Lincoln Restler opposed the Monitor Point project, which will build over 1,000 apartments on an MTA lot in Greenpoint, until just before it came to a vote, citing an…

ByPatrick Spauster

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How a 35% Affordable Housing Pledge in Brooklyn Was Torpedoed

In 2022, developers behind two Atlantic Avenue projects committed to making a “record-setting” 35 percent of the apartments affordable. But after interest rates shot up and the owner cited cost…

ByNorman Oder 2Comments

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Tenants, Landlords and Zombies Face Off Over a Rent Freeze, And What Else Happened This Week in Housing

Both inside and outside the Rent Guidelines Board’s public hearing Thursday, tenants and landlords shouted, booed, and jeered at each other in almost equal measure over future rents for regulated…

ByCasey Wetherbee

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Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: New York’s Affordable Housing Divide

“The core problem with New York’s housing affordability is not, at its heart, a rent regulation problem. It is a divergence problem. Rents for existing affordable units have become increasingly…

ByEddie Palka 0Comments

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Opinion: Why New York’s Shelter Strategy Keeps Failing

“The city has not built enough of the housing that ends homelessness, especially supportive housing that combines permanent, affordable apartments with on-site services. Until that changes, more people will enter…

ByEric Rosenbaum 0Comments

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Featured Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Politics

Mamdani’s Housing Plan To Overhaul How City Responds to Tenants’ Heat Complaints, Other Code Violations

The Mamdani administration will announce a series of reforms Tuesday to improve how the city enforces building violations, part of its broader plan to build and preserve new housing across…

ByPatrick Spauster 0Comments

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COPA Makes a Comeback, And What Else Happened This Week in Housing

The legislation would give pre-qualified nonprofits an early shot at bidding on certain distressed apartment buildings, what supporters say would ensure those units stay affordable.

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Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: New York City Must Act to Preserve Its Rent-Stabilized Housing

“This is not a debate about rescuing landlords. It is about preventing avoidable deterioration in housing that remains essential to the city’s economic and social fabric.”

ByMichael Lappin 3Comments

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Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Housing Calendar Land Use and Development NYCHA Resources

NYC Housing Calendar, May 5-11

City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events and public hearings, plus affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.