Citywide
Massive Rally Demands Adoption of Alternative Housing Proposals
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Two faith-based organizations are calling for investments in NYCHA and 15,000 units of affordable senior apartments on NYCHA land.
Affordable Housing
Is ‘Housing Not Warehousing’ Next?
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Advocates are continuing to push for the Housing Not Warehousing Act, a package of three bills that would mandate new protocols to identify vacant buildings and land.
Affordable Housing
Advocates, Council Continue Push for Deeper Affordability
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
The Real Affordability for All coalition released a report strongly critical of the mayor’s housing strategy, while councilmembers acknowledged improvements but pressed for more low-income units.
Citywide
Where the Mayoral Candidates Stand on Housing
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Three years into Housing New York, is there a challenger with a better housing plan?
campaign finance
Which Councilmembers and Candidates in Nabes Targeted for Rezoning Take the Most Real-Estate Donations?
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
We used two different methods to assess which councilmembers, particularly those in neighborhoods considering a rezoning, have accepted donations from the real-estate industry.
Affordable Housing
18 Tenant Protection Bills May Soon Be Law
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
The City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings passed all but one of the Stand for Tenant Safety bills and a variety of other bills to safeguard tenants.
Poverty
Report: Rents Rose, But So Did Poverty
Amelia Spittal and Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Rates of poverty and poverty concentration have increased in New York City after an earlier decline, according to the Furman Center—and some neighborhoods considering a rezoning experienced increased poverty and rising rents simultaneously.
Citywide
Investors’ Guidebooks to Rezoning Areas Foresee Dramatic Change
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
A real-estate brokerage’s reports on East Harlem and Gowanus glosses over opposition to potential rezonings there and predicts that the neighborhoods will soon ‘take off.’
affordable
Eight Things Developers Think About De Blasio’s Rezoning Strategy
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
We asked nine developers about rezonings, displacement and how they would solve the affordability crisis.
Affordable Housing
City-Sponsored vs. Market-Rate: Which Coops Get a Better Deal from the Tax Man?
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Critics say both HDFCs and market-rate coops receive tax breaks, so it’s unfair the city wants to make just HDFCs abide by price caps. We dug into the data to discover what is true.
