The three candidates running for New York City mayor faced off in their first general election debate Thursday night. Here’s what they said about rents for stabilized tenants, building affordable…
“The next mayor will undoubtedly hear plenty from the business community about their priorities. But New York’s homeless population deserves a voice in City Hall that’s just as loud and…
The new development team—the third since the megaproject was announced in 2003—has agreed to pay $12 million as they plan a new way forward. A key advocate deemed that “insufficient”…
The City Council approved the lease of city land to build housing for the formerly incarcerated in the Bronx, over the objections of the local councilmember and City Hall. It’s…
“This tension illustrates the challenge of linking environmental restoration with housing policy: without careful calibration, initiatives meant to expand opportunity can unintentionally contribute to exclusion.”
The Board of Elections opted not to strike four housing and land use proposals from November’s general election ballot after the City Council claimed they were misleading voters.
“While politicians debate zoning and development, a little-discussed federal bureaucratic mechanism called the High Housing Cost Adjustment is systematically excluding working New Yorkers from programs designed to help them.”
The City Planning Commission approved a plan Wednesday to rezone a 54-block swath of the Queens waterfront neighborhood, to spur an estimated 15,000 new apartments over the next decade. Take…
The councilmember-led rezoning passed through the land use process without much controversy. Is it a sign of changing attitudes on housing development?