The housing-policy perfect storm that was visible on the radar months ago has arrived right on time: 10 days from the deadline for the state to renew rent regulations and…
A former HPD official referred to as “the Tall Guy” in court papers is due to be sentenced soon for his role in a major Bloomberg-era bribery scandal. With a…
Fees for appliances like washing machines or air conditioners, legal fees, and other miscellaneous charges are confusing to tenants, often unexplained or unjustified and above all unaffordable.
The Housing Authority’s Tenant Associations are supposed to rally residents to fight for their interests. But while some leaders (like Jonathan Gardenhire, above, the vice president of Smith Houses’ TA)…
Everyone knows higher rents have forced many families out of their apartments in rapidly gentrifying Bushwick. But no one has bothered to count them or figure out where they went.
Mayor de Blasio says his housing plan will create good jobs as well as affordable places to live. But limited city oversight of subcontractors, who can change their names after…
Forty-four Assemblymembers now support the bill to end exits from the rent-stabilization program—and recapture thousands of apartments that have already left.
Tenant organizers are putting the pressure on Democrats who have yet to back a bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal to repeal a mechanism blamed for stripping tens of thousands…
But a second-generation Mitchell-Lama program would have to reconcile some problematic rhetoric around class and resolve some of the flaws that have stripped affordability from tens of thousands of units…
