Announcing in an election year a plan to create 90 new homeless shelters takes a certain amount of courage. But that doesn’t mean it will solve the problem.
Affordable housing, tenant protections and lesser density increases are among the demands that a community coalition plans to present to city planners.
A close look at those who applied for spots in one Pacific Park building reveals a vast gap between which income groups expressed need and what income levels the apartments…
Not-for-profit developers say the city’s focus on producing more units faster and cheaper is sidelining the mission to create housing that neighborhoods actually welcome.
Income-restricted cooperatives comprise some 30,000 apartments in more than 1,300 formerly abandoned or distressed multi-family buildings. The city’s proposed regulations to stabilize this key affordable-housing stock have met with opposition—some…
Undocumented immigrants aren’t eligible for many forms of housing assistance and can be less likely to report landlord harassment. That could make them uniquely vulnerable to the displacement that can…
The president has put the brakes on an Obama-era plan to reduce barriers to getting FHA mortgages. That will hit communities of color, especially those in New York, hard.
Critics say both HDFCs and market-rate coops receive tax breaks, so it’s unfair the city wants to make just HDFCs abide by price caps. We dug into the data to…
