This year, the City Council’s focus will be on a range of bills aimed at eradicating lead poisoning and addressing the needs of the city’s homeless population, among other housing and land-use concerns.
Housing units for extremely low- income households are not being preserved or created in line with the level of need in the city, the report from ANHD found.
The brutal killing last week of four men as they slept outdoors in Chinatown has put renewed attention on New York City’s homelessness crisis. At a vigil for the victims held Monday, residents, lawmakers and activists gathered near the scene of the slayings at Kimlau Square in Lower Manhattan to mourn, according to news […]
Many tenants facing eviction in housing court are unaware of their right to a publicly funded lawyer, Bronx advocacy organizations contend.
Speaker Johnson’s office says the Council is working to tweak the decades-old Small Business Jobs Survival Act. But advocates are frustrated and fear ‘a completely different watered down version’ of SBJSA is what will pass.
A rare discussion between a tenant leader, a real estate industry rep, pro-poor policy analyst and a Corcoran broker exposed divergent rhetoric about the state’s updated rent stabilization laws.
Plus: A deflating sales market in Manhattan and a two-year backlog of rent overcharge complaints.
A key sticking point in the debate over the proposal is the proposed new treatment of land that had been zoned for heavy industrial uses. That’s a concern in other development hubs around the city as well.
Tenants and advocates say NYCHA’s annual and interim review processes leads to routine overcharges and drags tenants into years-long disputes.
Plus: how homeless shelters affect property values, a landlord fined for threatening to call ICE
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