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The social housing proposals, known together as the Community Land Act, are the latest attempt to create affordable housing by removing real estate from the speculative market.

ByTareq Saghie 4Comments

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May 2025

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

What Happened This Week in NYC Housing? May 16, 2025

Each Friday, City Limits rounds up the latest news on housing, land use and homelessness. Catch up on what you might have missed here.

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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May 2025

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Cancel NYC’s Unfair Tax Lien Sale

“The city sells the lien sale as a financial enforcement tool, but ignores the fact that it is a pipeline to the affordable housing crisis.”

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Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Resources

City Postpones Controversial Tax Lien Sale By 2 Weeks

The city will now hold off on selling the debt of property owners—who make the list if they owe taxes or water, sewer and emergency repair charges—until June 3. The…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 2Comments

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May 2025

Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Mayor Adams’ Tax Lien Sale Task Force is Failing NYC Tenants and Homeowners

“Mayor Adams’ Task Force has an opportunity to ease New York City’s perpetual affordable housing crisis and promote permanently affordable housing. The question is, will he choose Wall Street and…

ByJakob Kendall Schneider

ByAlbert Scott 1Comment

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Apr 2025

Economy Featured Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Resources

NYC’s Tax Lien Sale is Back. Here’s What You Need to Know.

The city will resume selling the debt of property owners who owe taxes or water, sewer and emergency repair charges—the first lien sale since the pandemic struck. But recent reforms…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 9Comments

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Feb 2024

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Politics

Candidates on Housing: Assemblymember Zinerman Talks Fixing NYCHA and ‘Good Cause’ Negotiations

Raised in Brooklyn’s Gowanus Houses, Zinerman says she wants to see more secure and better-funded developments in the New York City Housing Authority, and to support local tenants and property…

ByTatyana Turner 0Comments

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May 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness Politics

Groups Tell Speaker Adams: Time is Now for ‘Social Housing’ Bills

Albany’s inaction has made it more urgent for the council speaker to help pass a package of bills aimed at boosting the supply of homes accessible to, and controlled by,…

ByEmma Whitford 4Comments

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Feb 2022

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness

As NYC Considers Scrapping Tax Lien Sale, Land Trust Plan Gains Steam

The city’s controversial tax lien sale expires Monday. Absent legislation to create a new program or renew the existing one, a group of activists and elected officials have proposed abolishing…

ByDavid Brand 2Comments

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Jan 2022

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness News

NY’s Foreclosure Freeze Is Over. Here’s What At-Risk Homeowners Can Do

Hundreds of thousands of New York households have fallen behind on their mortgages or property taxes during the pandemic, putting them at risk of losing their homes after statewide foreclosure…

ByDavid Brand 0Comments

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