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Crackdown on Conversions Confronts Danger and Necessity
Illegal apartments have figured in several tragic fires, prompting stricter enforcement. But they also play a role in meeting housing demand, leading some experts to wonder if a path to legalization is needed.
Cuts Cripple Housing Assistance Network in Inwood, Washington Heights
Residents looking for help with housing disputes must line up as early as 3 a.m to get assistance from cash-strapped community organizations in particularly vulnerable northern Manhattan neighborhoods.
Immigrants On Front Lines Of Housing Fight
First-generation New Yorkers are more likely to reside in rent-regulated housing than the rest of us. So as Albany weighs weakening or strengthening rent rules, some immigrants are raising their voices.
Life In A Landmark: Pioneering Public Housing Site Shows Its Age
For residents of First Houses—the Lower East Side site where public housing began in the United States—pride in their historic location is mixed with worries about deterioration inside.
10 Foreclosed Buildings. One Mystery Buyer. $19M In Problems.
As an unnamed buyer closes in on 10 Bronx buildings that fell into foreclosure after an overleveraged private-equity deal, an assessment says they need at least $19 million in repairs.
Nonprofit Eyeing Distressed Buildings Faces Tenant Resistance
Hope Community LDC wants to purchase 47 East Harlem buildings out of foreclosure. But a tenant organization has raised questions about the would-be buyer's past record.
Pols Warn Foreclosed Buildings' Mystery Buyer
Tenants and elected officials are suspicious of the unnamed buyer eyeing 10 distressed Bronx buildings, but the city's housing chief wants to give the new owner a chance.
Behind The Scenes Of An Eviction
Most of the evictions that City Marshal Oren Varnai conducts aren't dangerous; they're simply "uncomfortable."
Opponents Mobilize Against New Harlem Charter School
Housing Costs Devour More Family Budgets
Landlord Pinnacle Group Challenges Class Action
Tenant Lawsuit Against Mega-Landlord Gains Steam
Life in the Towers: 'I'm Tired Of Ducking Bullets'
A day at River Park Towers reveals a lot about what low-income New Yorkers face from government, management and each other.
Pot Smoke, Dead Elevators & Killer Paint: Life in the Towers
River Park Towers is just one building, but a day spent with its residents revealed it has a world of problems, none of them simple.
HPD: Prevent Cycle Of Foreclosure & Displacement
The city steps in, hoping to rescue 10 Bronx buildings laid low by overambitious investors, potentially establishing a model for rescuing others.
Annual Tenant Lobby Day Wins Short Term Gains
Housing Activists Occupy Espada's Albany Office
The senator reportedly stayed in an inner office while the tenants chanted and rallied in the hall outside, "Na-na-na-na. Hey, hey, hey, good bye."
New Legal Push For Foreclosure Victims
Mentally Ill On Hold After Ruling
The state's appeal of a federal court decision on housing for the mentally ill has residents and advocates in limbo.
A New Tool For Tenants
Tenants
With housing so expensive in New York, tenants lease apartments and houses. However, the recent economic recession and real estate market crash has made both tenants’ and landlords’ lives tricky. Tenant activists are trying to repeal vacancy decontrol, and rent regulation laws are eligible for renewal. With all of this opportunity for change, Governor Cuomo has come under a a fair amount of criticism from tenant advocacy groups.
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Report Slams Housing Court For Tenant Treatment - Milesska Contreras
Access to lawyers, translation services and childcare would make Brooklyn Housing Court a fairer forum, according to a coalition of community groups.
Tenants, Pinnacle Eye Settlement Of Long-Running Dispute - Jarrett Murphy
Lawyers for both sides say there is a proposed settlement in the lawsuit tenants filed 2007 against the Pinnacle Group, alleging improper rent hikes and evictions.
The Economics Of Rent Control, Revisited - Jarrett Murphy
As Albany heads toward a renewal of rent control, it's time to study up on the traditional arguments against rent regulation, and the counterpoints.
Tenant Advocates Wary Of Rent Reg Talks - Gena Mangiaratti
State leaders are edging toward a deal to preserve rent regulations. But advocates who'd hoped not just to save the laws but to strengthen them wonder what the final deal will look like.
Crown Heights: At The Corner Of Old And New - Patrick Wall
An influx of young, more affluent residents is remaking the Brooklyn neighborhood. What's gained, and what's lost, in this transformation? Watch a video interview with reporter Patrick Wall.
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New NYC Housing Units Built in Unfamiliar Areas
A new report on the state of housing construction in New York City's neighborhoods finds that the overwhelming majority of new units built between 2000 and 2008 were in areas of the city unfamiliar with building construction on a large scale.
