CANNING PRESERVATION? NOT.

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While budgets are tight, the city’s housing agency has managed in recent years to up its efforts to preserve the existing housing stock by making more emergency repairs and taking buildings out of the hands of derelict owners, according to a new report.

Manhattan

CITY HOPES TO 86 LOCAL LAW 36.

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The Bloomberg administration is suing the City Council for a law the legislators say will curtail predatory lending, and the mayor argues will discourage banks from doing business in the five boroughs.

MATH IS HARD: FLAWED NUMBERS ROIL RENT DEBATE

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As tenants and landlords fight for changes in the state’s rent laws, a set of figures used by some property owners to argue that the regulations should be loosened could foil tenants’ campaign-that is, if those numbers were right.

TENANTS WIN RIGHT TO OWN

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After enduring years of rat infestations
and broken elevators, hundreds of tenants in two Hamilton Heights
apartment buildings last week finally got the message they’d been waiting for
— their homes are theirs, to own.

National

BUSH PLAN COULD TAX HOUSING

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A Bush proposal to reward companies that pay their income taxes could end up hurting a decades-old tax credit program that helps boost the creation of affordable housing.

Lower East Side

SPLIT DECISION ON SHELTER

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A family of seven that lost its apartment to a fire just before the New Year has spent the last several weeks sleeping on friends’ couches as they challenge the city’s insistence that only two of the relatives qualify for temporary city shelter.