¿Qué les pasa a trabajadores agrícolas cuando una granja se enfrenta a una crisis económica – que podría acortar la temporada – en medio de una emergencia sanitaria mundial?
Undocumented migrant farm workers are facing evictions as farms in upstate New York encounter financial losses, according to farm worker advocacy groups.
Did the governor’s new moratorium put ‘tens of thousands of New Yorkers’ at risk of being booted out of their homes?
The program aimed to test ways to legalize basement apartments as a way to create new, sanctioned affordable housing units for tenants and help the moderate-income homeowners who might rent some of the spaces out.
De Blasio’s executive budget proposes large shifts in capital funding for his 300,000-unit housing plan—essentially backloading hundreds of millions in capital expenditures to future years, most of which fall beyond his term.
Worried homeowners endure long wait times when trying to access federal and state resources to avoid foreclosure. Then they learn the limits of those programs.
Affordable housing developers, tenant advocacy groups and real-estate operators are grappling with the unprecedented impact of COVID-19 on the economy.
‘This is something we now have that can never be taken away from us. This is something we make here that no one else in the world can deprive us of.’
The city’s Law Department says it is ready to deliver its case to a state appeals court for restoring the Inwood rezoning, which was annulled by a lower court last year. It’s just not sure exactly when it will be able to do so.
Some resources and clarifying information for residential and commercial tenants and homeowners.
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