Must-see scenes at Thursday's RGB hearing, where the usually raucus tenant crowd was met by zombies (actors in makeup paid by landlords) who warned that a rent freeze would mean more undead vacant apartments.
The board votes 6/25
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There’s no help coming from NY state for 5,200 federal emergency housing voucher holders who will lose their subsidies this fall.
Other housing stuff made the budget: environmental review reform & expanded eligibility for rent freezes for senior and disabled tenants.
Backed by the Mamdani admin, Pinnacle tenants are fighting to hold their new owner to repair promises they made when they bought the buildings @ auction. They say the pressure & a one-of-a-kind relationship w City Hall secured forgiveness for rent debt. @citylimitsnews.bsky.social buff.ly/UOyKybW
Backed by the Mamdani admin, Pinnacle tenants are fighting to hold their new owner to repair promises they made when they bought the buildings @ auction. They say the pressure & a one-of-a-kind relationship w City Hall secured forgiveness for rent debt. @citylimitsnews.bsky.social buff.ly/UOyKybW
Check out this great first @citylimitsnews byline from Casey Wetherbee who is reporting on tenants and climate this summer!
“Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Indigenous American and low-income people face the greatest risks from living near warehouses,” buff.ly/LHQ3Zmj
She got a text when City of Yes passed: “You now have your ADU!” She was elated.
Now, she feels exploited by the broken promise: "It wouldn’t have bothered me so much if they didn’t personally leverage me in their communications and in their campaign."
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City Limits is excited to welcome journalist Sunny Nagpaul to our newsroom! Sunny will report exclusively on NYCHA, and on the more than 500,000 New Yorkers who call public housing home. Send story ideas and tips to: [email protected]. citylimits.org/city-limits-...
The NYC agency that enforces housing & labor discrimination laws is taking a cut in Mamdani's budget. While he promised no cuts, the budget's vacancy reduction savings hits the already-slim agency particularly hard-just as they had hoped to staff up. Story @citylimitsnews.bsky.social buff.ly/AesEvtG
“When landlords see that the agency to enforce those things is underfunded, they’re going to roll the dice,” said Paul Keefe, the vice president of legal services at the Community Service Society. citylimits.org/mamdanis-bud...
Thousands of heat complaints went unanswered during winter's record cold, @patrickspauster.com's reporting found, due to a policy that tags multiple complaints in the same building as duplicates. The city will now investigate each individually, Mamdani says. citylimits.org/mamdanis-hou...
A post-pandemic boom in e-commerce correlated with statewide health inequities that are hitting low-income communities the hardest, the report found. “The reason why a lot of these warehouses are…
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The Adams administration promised Sadé Singh she would be able to build a granny flat, or ADU, on her Queens property under new development rules. She’s still waiting.
The Mamdani administration will announce a series of reforms Tuesday to improve how the city enforces building violations, part of its broader plan to build and preserve new housing across the five bo...
Hochul and lawmakers struck a state budget agreement this week that will raise eligibility for senior and disabled rent freezes, and revamp tax exemptions for building repairs. But it won't fund more housing vouchers. citylimits.org/which-housin...
The state budget agreement will raise eligibility for senior and disabled rent freezes, and revamp tax exemptions for building repairs.
