Mitchell Lama

Neighborhood Intel

Michael Blake wants to revamp how NYC determines eligibility for affordable housing

By Celia Young |March 24, 2025 - 4:00PM

Neighborhood Intel

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

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

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Improve

I swapped the gas stove in my Mitchell-Lama co-op for an electric one, but what did I gain?

By Celia Young |November 20, 2024 - 11:30AM

Buy Affordable Housing

Can you leave your Mitchell Lama apartment to someone in your will?

By Emily Myers |February 13, 2023 - 9:30AM

Affordable Housing

Section 8 rent assistance vouchers: A guide for New Yorkers

By Emily Myers |April 13, 2022 - 12:30PM

Sell

My co-op board set an unreasonable minimum sales price for apartments. What can I do?

… … The board of a traditional coop is not allowed to set a minimum price for an apartment sale or for shares in the building because … are all the ways a board can protect the value of apartments Wagner says Artificially boosting the value of …

Sponsored By Wagner, Berkow, and Brandt |June 22, 2021 - 12:30PM

Rent

Ask Sam: What happens when a rental building leaves the Mitchell-Lama program?

Sponsored By Himmelstein McConnell Gribben & Joseph LLP |September 25, 2019 - 10:00AM

Rent

Ask Sam: What changes to rent stabilization laws are possible in the upcoming year?

Sponsored By Himmelstein McConnell Gribben & Joseph LLP |October 10, 2018 - 10:00AM

Rent

Ask Sam: What are the rules for succession in Mitchell-Lama housing?

Sponsored By Himmelstein McConnell Gribben & Joseph LLP |August 8, 2018 - 10:00AM

The Market

Hit the NYC jackpot: How to get an affordable Mitchell-Lama apartment to call your own

… can become available through MitchellLama an affordable housing program that provides rentals and coops to … Yorkers Constructed in the 1950s and 1960s these buildings often have wait lists that stretch on for years and its not … must announce it in local newspapers More practically the Department of Housing Preservation and Development offers a …

By Leigh Kamping-Carder |March 15, 2018 - 3:00PM