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Private managers of federally subsidized housing projects in New York City are systematically failing to properly screen tenants in the program, resulting in rent miscalculations and eviction filings, a City…

ByPatrick Spauster 11Comments

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Jun 2025

Featured Government Housing and Homelessness

Does That Building Have Stabilized Apartments? It’ll Soon Be Easier to Know

The City Council’s just-passed “Rent Transparency Act” will require landlords of buildings with regulated units to display a sign in common areas disclosing that status. “Many tenants living in rent…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 6Comments

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Jul 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

Kingston Made Rent Law History Two Years Ago. That Was the Easy Part.

For tenants in the first upstate city to adopt rent stabilization, benefiting from the law’s basic protections is an uphill battle.

ByEmma Whitford

BySam Mellins 1Comment

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Oct 2023

Housing and Homelessness

NY Quietly Finalizes Housing Regulations Cheered By ‘Frankensteining’ Critics

The amendments, some of which limit rents on combined or ‘Frankensteined’ apartments, mark the first update since 2014 to regulations in the Rent Stabilization Code governing about 1 million apartments.

ByEmma Whitford 0Comments

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Apr 2023

Housing and Homelessness In Depth Justice

Harlem Tenant Threatened With Eviction Was Overcharged for Years Under Rent Rules, Court Docs Claim

Seventeen previously rent-stabilized apartments in Cristina Ramirez’s Harlem building haven’t been registered with the state since 2018. Her legal team says her case is illustrative of the need for greater…

ByDashiell Allen 3Comments

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Nov 2022

Opinion

Opinion: Close the Loophole Letting Landlords Displace Rent-Stabilized Tenants

“It is somewhat common for landlords to attempt to circumvent the legal approval process to alter rent-stabilized apartments by cutting out the middleman.”

ByEmily Eaton

ByEvan Henley 0Comments

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Nov 2022

Housing and Homelessness

NYC Housing Calendar, Nov. 9-16

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

ByMariam Hydara 0Comments

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Jul 2020

Government Health Housing and Homelessness

State’s Window for COVID Rent Relief Reopens Amid Criticism

Applications will be accepted through August 6.

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Jun 2019

Housing and Homelessness

Passing Rent Reform Was One Thing. Now it Has to be Enforced.

Sweeping rent reforms are now law. Exactly how the letter of that legislation translates into reality will depend in large part on how the state’s Division of Homes and Community…

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

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Dec 2018

Government Housing and Homelessness