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Modern buildings under construction on the waterfront in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with the view of Manhattan with Freedom Tower over the East River.

Affordable Housing

Whoever wins the NYC mayor’s race faces a worsening housing crisis, affordable developers say

By Celia Young |October 16, 2025 - 10:30AM

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

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

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

Neighborhood Intel

Whitney Tilson wants to speed up development and make it easier for small landlords to evict non-paying tenants

… a longtime Democrat and former hedge fund manager wants to hurry up housing construction in New York City by … Assembly member Michael Blake Tilson criticized the 2019 rent reforms and said that hed work with real estate … exacerbating the housing crisis in this city I think we need to go through all of the rules and regulations around …

By Celia Young |March 31, 2025 - 9:30AM

Neighborhood Intel

Scott Stringer wants to build ‘Mitchell-Lama 2.0’ and buy up deteriorating NYC buildings for housing

… MitchellLama housing on city land and use eminent domain to buy crumbling NYC buildings The mayor will oversee city … round questions Scott Stringers answers … Local Law 97 … Do you think fines should be delayed or enforced for buildings … but I do think we have a lot of coops especially coops that are affordable that are really struggling with the law and …

By Celia Young |March 10, 2025 - 3:45PM