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Each Friday, City Limits rounds up the latest news on housing, land use and homelessness. Catch up on what you might have missed here.
Welcome to “What Happened This Week in NYC Housing?” where we compile the latest local news about housing, land use and homelessness. Know of a story we should include in next week’s roundup? Email us.
ICYMI, from City Limits:
- With the city’s primary elections just weeks away, housing and homeless advocacy groups are helping unhoused New Yorkers and domestic violence survivors register to vote. You don’t need a permanent address to cast your ballot, and DV survivors can request the state keep their records confidential.
- The state budget included a small pool of funds to kickstart a new rental subsidy program. Here’s what we know so far about how the housing access voucher program will work, and who would qualify. (Lea la versión en español aquí.)
- The comptroller’s office will audit how NYCHA spends city capital budget funds, at the request of public housing tenants.
- Here’s what former Assembly member and now mayoral candidate Michael Blake says he’ll do to address the city’s housing crisis if elected to City Hall.
ICYMI, from other local newsrooms:
- Related Companies is dropping its bid to build a casino at Hudson Yards, and now proposes building up to 4,000 new apartments instead on Manhattan’s west side, the New York Times reported.
- Residents at Rochdale Village, a Queens Mitchell-Lama co-op home to some 25,000 people, are facing soaring maintenance, insurance and other costs, according to Gothamist.
- NYCHA opened its first dog park at Castle Hill Houses, the Bronx Times reported.
- Property owners on Staten Island are ready to build Accessory Dwelling Units—a key part of the mayor’s City of Yes for Housing plan passed late last year—but the approval process is slow-going, according to The City.
- A state court is taking up a case in which landlords are challenging the city of Kingston’s efforts to adopt rent stabilization, and its decision could effect other attempts to expand tenant protections across upstate New York, according to City & State.
