Policy
Policy
Rent protections stand out in state Legislative session
Tenant advocates are confident that “good cause” eviction protections will get approved as part of a broad housing package.
Housing
Policy
New York City’s borough presidents are ready to build
They each have their own priorities for development, but there’s a sense of urgency to create more housing.
Politics
Politics
Being the city’s social services commissioner is a hard job. And Gary Jenkins is leaving at a particularly difficult time.
The New York City shelter population is at a record high, and more homeless New Yorkers died last year than ever before.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Racial Equity Reports are a new and valuable resource for developing affordable housing
These disclosure statements offer important neighborhood and project data that can assist community members and stakeholders in evaluating development and land use proposals.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
5 Borough Housing Movement forms to support reshaping Midtown
A Q&A with Executive Director John Sanchez
Housing
Policy
NYC’s basement apartment pilot draws only 5 participants
A program to bring some illegal basement apartments up to code has demonstrated the financial and regulatory hurdles to conversions – a setback for the mayor and governor’s housing agendas.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Thousands of NYCHA tenants forgotten under Emergency Rental Assistance Program
Residents in public housing deserve the same relief that millions of renters received across the state, but instead face mass evictions.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: New York’s answer to the eviction crisis triggered by COVID-19 needs a successor
The Emergency Rental Assistance Program, which is set to close its application process Jan. 20, helped renters and landlords alike.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: NYC’s residential floor area ratio cap must go
Restricting building density isn’t helping to speed up housing production.
Policy
Policy
Zoning fights may become political liabilities in upcoming 2023 NYC Council primaries
Everyone is talking about building new housing. With rezonings under the microscope, will development sway City Council elections?
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Opinion: Further reforms needed to keep discrimination out of Long Island housing
Nonprofit watchdog Housing Rights Initiative found that despite multiple efforts to protect the use of Section 8 vouchers, barriers for prospective tenants persist.
Opinion
Opinion
OPINION: Summary eviction proceedings must end
These processes are not only unfair, they are structurally racist.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: New York finally has momentum on housing and it’s time for a breakthrough
We need a comprehensive statewide strategy that sets clear expectations for where and how much we need to build.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Tenants’ rights advocates and lawmakers tout legislative agenda
Activists, elected officials and tenants rallied outside the governor’s Manhattan office to launch their legislative campaign to protect renters.
New York City
Policy
Adrienne Adams makes her own bid for building new affordable housing
Following proposals made by Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams, the City Council Speaker unveiled her own complementary plan that prioritized equity, while still pushing for new units.
Heard Around Town
Policy
Office to residential conversions – again – a focus of Adams and Hochul
The governor also previewed a goal of 800,000 new housing units over the next decade, presenting a united front with the mayor
New York City
Policy
City & State summit seeks solutions to unfolding affordable housing crisis
Key issues addressed were increasing housing supply, rezoning and the city’s response to future tax exemption plans.
New York City
Policy
How NYC’s Code Blue emergency notice aims to protect homeless people
When temperatures drop, the city tries to eliminate barriers to sheltering people – but advocates worry about police involvement.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Immigrant households disproportionately rent-burdened: Report
Nearly 434,000 children in New York City were in households with at least one immigrant parent and experienced rent burden in 2021, according to the Citizens’ Committee for Children analysis.
Policy
Opinion