Emily Myers

Rents for housing lottery apartments at 2 Mount Hope Pl. start at $545. Eligible applicants must earn from $21,738 to $215,150, depending on the size of the household. 

Squatters, leaks, collapsed ceilings, destroyed mailboxes, a faulty elevator, and a broken intercom—these are some of the problems that have prompted tenants at 331 East 14th St.to try and kick out their landlord. Tenants Jillian Heft and Michael Shanahan spoke to Brick about their experience living in the building and their hopes for the future.

And, after arsenic is found in the water at a Lower East Side NYCHA complex, a federal monitor orders the preservation of papers related to the discovery

And, a new lawsuit accuses the founders of the Roomster, a listing site, of cheating renters out of tens of millions of dollars with fake reviews and listings that didn't exist.

Rents for housing lottery apartments at 160 Clarkson Ave. start at $2,100. Eligible applicants must earn from $72,000 to $187,330, depending on the size of the household. 

And, rents in the U.S. hit new records with Manhattan soaring past $4,000 for August.