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

… will make it significantly more expensive to construct new homes according to a report from the Brookings Institute … 8 and other programs would likely result in widespread homelessness and multifamily mortgage defaults and banking …

By Celia Young |October 16, 2025 - 10:30AM
Elizabeth Street Garden won its fight. What does that mean for housing development in NYC?

… also signed onto an existing plan to redevelop 100 Gold St home to the Department of Housing Preservation and …

By Celia Young |June 24, 2025 - 4:30PM
Whitney Tilson wants to speed up development and make it easier for small landlords to evict non-paying tenants

… back NYCs shortterm rental restrictions and allowing small homeowners to rent out their properties for fewer than 30 … standard for evicting somebody whos living in your home and stops paying you or starts trashing the place or …

By Celia Young |March 31, 2025 - 9:30AM
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 … which offer affordable coops and rental units  His campaign for mayor follows an unsuccessful bid in 2021 after … … Scott Stringer wants to build MitchellLama 20 and buy up deteriorating NYC buildings for housing …

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