The deal on the mayor’s citywide Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability proposals means the action now moves back to neighborhood plans—and the decisions by individual councilmembers…
Rents and purchase prices are rising in the area. Evidence is mixed whether that’s because of the rezoning or the very market pressures the mayor says necessitate the zoning change.
Legislators’ concerns over the plan to rezone East New York mirror their worries about the mayor’s citywide proposals. A deal seems likely. Its exact shape remains anybody’s guess.
The building at 159 Suydam Street illustrates the difficulties involved in applying tenant-protection policies to certain kinds of buildings with a certain sort of landlord.
The key affordable-housing program faces privatization pressures, repair issues and controversies over shareholder elections—but tenants, the City Council and HPD disagree about who is in a position to solve them.
The PA’s investigation found that Neighborhood Homes failed a group of potential home-buyers in Crown Heights. The program is winding down, but the findings could shape discussions about new affordable-housing…