Facing a growing fiscal crisis and crumbling infrastructure, City Hall has called for building affordable housing—and, in some cases, market-rate apartments—on Housing Authority land as part of a broad strategy…
Ruben Diaz, Jr. believes new affordable housing must serve people with relatively high incomes—not to attract that crowd, but to keep them from leaving.
Mayor de Blasio’s housing plan was full of ambition and ideas. Achieving them will require streamlining and rearranging the city’s housing development system, says HPD’s commissioner.
The developer Forest City Ratner and the construction firm Skanska have had a bitter parting of ways over a stalled construction project. But both say they still believe in the…
You can debate whether gentrification is good or bad for neighborhoods. But it’s clear that many low-income tenants aren’t simply sitting and waiting to be pushed out of their homes.
The area’s improvement—thanks to community action and city policy—is undeniable. What’s debated is whether the same displacement seen in Bed-Stuy and Bushwick is headed that way.
One former Lutheran church being converted to housing will include affordable units. It’s unclear whether another former house of worship will offer non-market apartments as well.
A two-decade debate over how to redevelop the massive Kingsbridge Armory ended with a City Council vote last week. Now promises to the community must be made real.
The developer of a proposed ice-center and its community allies are no longer attempting to sway Councilman Fernando Cabrera to support their plan for the Kingsbridge Armory.