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“Two years into the pandemic, the city is moving ahead with a return to ‘normal,’ but the pre-pandemic real estate market’s ‘normal’ is not something to which we should aspire…

ByLeslie Vasquez

ByKimberly Pereyra Monero

ByLandry Haarmann 0Comments

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May 2022

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness

NYC’s Rent Guidelines Board Votes for 2-4% Hikes for Stabilized Units. What Now?

The rate increases are lower than property owners have pushed for, citing rising costs. But tenants and housing advocates who’ve called for a rent freeze say the hike will worsen…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 9Comments

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Mar 2022

Economy Government Health Housing and Homelessness

For Lower-Income New Yorkers, COVID Rents Never Really Went Down

For many low-income tenants in unregulated apartments, rents remained relatively flat or even increased during the pandemic because available housing was still hard to find.

ByDavid Brand 2Comments

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Mar 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

Dilapidated Apartments, Lousy Landlords Plague NYC’s Sprawling ‘Scattered-Site’ Supportive Housing Network

There are some 16,000 scattered-site supportive housing units across the city, rented and overseen by nonprofits contracted to provide services to tenants. But outdated contracts that trail actual market rents…

ByDavid Brand 4Comments

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Jan 2022

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

House Flippers Continue to Target East New York. Residents Blame the 2016 Rezoning

Home prices in the predominantly Black and Latino neighborhood began to tick up before then-Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to rezone 190 blocks in 2014. But affordable housing advocates…

ByDavid Brand 6Comments

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Dec 2021

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness

Newly-Approved SoHo Rezoning Promises Affordable Homes. How Much Will they Really Cost?

While developers will seriously benefit from a chance to build market-rate apartments in one of the city’s most coveted zip codes, the de Blasio administration says the new construction will…

ByDavid Brand 2Comments

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Oct 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness

NYC Tenants Reignite Push for ‘Good Cause’ Eviction Protections, Despite Landlord Opposition

Supporters of the legislation say property owners, particularly large corporate landlords, should not have the power to abruptly deny leases to existing renters and kick them out of their homes.…

ByDavid Brand 8Comments

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Oct 2021

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Striking a ‘Grand Bargain’ to Rebuild Trust in NYC Affordable Housing

‘We are seeing a rampant level of opposition to every suggestion of new housing going back to before the COVID-19 pandemic. If we are going to address the housing shortage…

ByRafael E. Cestero 4Comments

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May 2019

Housing and Homelessness

How Often do Preferential Rents Rise? Rarely, But More Than They Used To

One topic of profound disagreement between tenant advocates and property owners is preferential rents. Newly released data this week provides some important background on how those rent discounts operate.

ByJarrett Murphy 3Comments

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Dec 2017

Economy News

Diagnosing NYC’s Vacant Storefront Problem

Chain stores, online shopping, landlords holding out for more profit — the causes for the reported surge in retail vacancies across the city are many. One thing that’s lacking is…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 8Comments

Opinion: NYC’s Rebounding Rents Shine Light on Long-Standing Crisis