Affordable Housing

Historic buildings at the intersection of Mercer Street and West 4th Street in New York City.
Affordable Housing
The insider's guide to NYC rent-stabilized apartments: Where to find them and how the program works
By Celia Young |August 14, 2025 - 12:30PM
100 West 141st St., #16, in Central Harlem
Co-ops
Buy a co-op at a discount: All about HDFCs and how to get one

… average cost of HDFCs is more like $350000 to $500000but in most cases theyre still far cheaper than the market rate in … below for how to narrow your search ranging in price from $85000 for a one bedroom in the Bronx to $185 million for a … guidelines  that allow generations of a family to live in the same unit successively  As with many HDFCs …

By Evelyn Battaglia |August 11, 2025 - 10:30AM
A rendering of the 251-unit building in Wakefield, the Bronx.
Affordable Housing
Housing lottery launches for 212 rent-stabilized units in Wakefield
By Celia Young |August 7, 2025 - 10:30AM
Council members Chi Ossé and Shaun Abreu at a rally before the FARE Act vote in November.
Affordable Housing
NYC's broker fee law survives another challenge from REBNY
By Jennifer White Karp |July 14, 2025 - 3:00PM
A rendering of the six-story building in Park Slope.
Affordable Housing
Housing lottery launches for 45 rent-stabilized units in Park Slope
By Celia Young |July 9, 2025 - 10:30AM
Rent Guidelines Board vote June 30th 2025
Affordable Housing
Rent board approves increases of 3 to 4.5 percent for rent-stabilized units
By Celia Young |July 1, 2025 - 9:30AM
Elizabeth Street Garden in Nolita, as seen in November 2023.
Neighborhood Intel
Elizabeth Street Garden won its fight. What does that mean for housing development in NYC?
By Celia Young |June 24, 2025 - 4:30PM
A rendering of the roofdeck at 55 Broad Street.
Rent
Housing lottery launches for 143 apartments in the Financial District
By Celia Young |June 19, 2025 - 11:30AM
There are nine candidates vying to win voters on the June 24th ranked choice Democratic primary.
Neighbors
How the Democratic candidates for mayor would fix NYC's housing crisis

… in NYC to build thousandseven hundreds of thousandsmore apartments than the less than 30000 housing units NYC … developers built in 2023 But how they intend to build these apartments differs widely between the mayoral hopefuls Read … Authority units incentivize repairs at rentstabilized apartments and increase staffing at the citys housing …

By Celia Young |June 13, 2025 - 9:30AM