8 ways to negotiate a smaller rent increase at lease renewal time

… for renewal your landlord has likely notified you that your rent is increasing In New York Citys highly competitive rental market landlords typically try to raise rents for … … 5 Get intel from your neighbors  … Gramercy renter Jennifer C found out that her neighbors in a similarsized …

By Evelyn Battaglia |March 17, 2025 - 10:00AM
Brad Lander pitches homesharing and co-ownership for city workers to ease the housing crisis

… New York City Comptroller Brad Lander bought an apartment with his … pass the Housing Access Voucher program and for that fourth category state funding and HAVP are needed to make it work … … that should be legal and is not legal today  In some cases what Im proposing is already legal and in some cases …

By Celia Young |February 24, 2025 - 3:30PM
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… The Old Apartment by Canadian darlings The Barenaked Ladies Rent from the eponymous musical or even the mournful … I cant afford It shifts into the alienating transience of renting with Renter not a Buyer and Open Letter to a … own experience with gentrification according to poet Tracie Morris one of the songwriters  … 9 New Apartment by Ari …

By Celia Young |February 5, 2025 - 4:30PM