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City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. Adi Talwar New Dorp Plaza, Staten Island Welcome to…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Nov 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Politics

Rise of the ‘SHIMBY’? New Report Outlines Steps to Social Housing

A new report describes the path to social housing in New York through 20 policy proposals, from overhauling the property tax code and abolishing the city’s tax lien sale to…

ByDavid Brand 1Comment

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Jul 2022

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: NY’s Mitchell-Lama Housing Should Be Preserved, Not Dismantled

“Dissolving our building’s Mitchell-Lama status would be a small but significant injustice in an already deeply unequal city. Shareholders who have long benefitted from the program would be autonomously divesting…

ByJerald Isseks 16Comments

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Apr 2018

Housing and Homelessness News

East New York Mitchell-Lama Complex Sues Feds, City, Landlord in Federal Court

The city says the Bloomberg-era preservation deal at Linden Plaza resulted in prolonged affordability. The tenants: widespread displacement.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 7Comments

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Mar 2018

Housing and Homelessness

Report: Thousands of Affordable Units Could Go Market-Rate as Tax Credit Deals Lapse

A new set of threats to affordable housing is looming in New York City, thanks to the Trump administration, the real-estate market and time itself.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Oct 2017

Opinion

Assembly Dem: So Far, City & State Steps to Protect Affordable Housing Aren’t Enough

‘Tackling the problems of gentrification and displacement is going to require all of us,’ the assemblymember argues in an op-ed.

ByWalter Mosley 1Comment

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Mar 2016

Housing and Homelessness

The Seven Worries of New York City’s Mitchell-Lama Tenants

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.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 21Comments

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May 2015

Housing and Homelessness

The Price of Housing Preservation: Linden Plaza’s Saga

During the Bloomberg administration, rents were hiked dramatically at one Brooklyn complex in order to keep it operating. The city believes the move preserved a Mitchell-Lama development. Some tenants say…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

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Mar 2015

Housing and Homelessness

Are Co-Op Owners Entitled to ‘Windfall’ Profits?

Mitchell-Lama co-op owners bought their units when the buildings were subsidized for affordability. Now some debate whether it’s right sell those apartments for lucrative market prices.

ByNorman Oder 5Comments

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Mar 2015

Housing and Homelessness

In Rising Market, Vital Mitchell-Lama Program at Crossroads

Deep repair needs and an alluring private market are pushing the mostly middle-class complexes toward the open market, eroding a bulwark of affordability.

ByNorman Oder 1Comment

NYC Housing Calendar, March 9-15

Opinion: NY’s Mitchell-Lama Housing Should Be Preserved, Not Dismantled

East New York Mitchell-Lama Complex Sues Feds, City, Landlord in Federal Court

Report: Thousands of Affordable Units Could Go Market-Rate as Tax Credit Deals Lapse

Assembly Dem: So Far, City & State Steps to Protect Affordable Housing Aren’t Enough

The Seven Worries of New York City’s Mitchell-Lama Tenants

The Price of Housing Preservation: Linden Plaza’s Saga

Are Co-Op Owners Entitled to ‘Windfall’ Profits?

In Rising Market, Vital Mitchell-Lama Program at Crossroads

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