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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

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

… pitching a plan to build more MitchellLama housing on city land and use eminent domain to buy crumbling NYC buildings The mayor will oversee city agencies that … elected office I have been a housing activist throughout my public career As borough president I worked on affordable …

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

New York City old fashioned apartment buildings with external fire ladders

Roommates + Landlords

Both landlords and tenant advocates criticize tentative housing deal in New York state budget

By Celia Young |April 16, 2024 - 1:00PM

A high angle view of a traditional residential street Hell's Kitchen, Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

The Market

Nearly one in five NYC renters fell behind on their rent last year

… The rent is too damn high and its putting some New Yorkers behind on their bills Roughly 18 percent of New York City … and 2023 was no exception Median asking rent on available apartments remained around $3500 per month citywide in … growing share of New Yorkers budgets The average metro area household spent around $18000 annually on housing costs …

By Celia Young |January 24, 2024 - 12:30PM