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

… MitchellLama buildings which offer affordable coops and rental units  His campaign for mayor follows an unsuccessful … days without the owner on the premises I would not … Rent freeze … Would you support a rent freeze for the citys … sort out the details but the bottom line is we will use the legal mechanism of eminent domain to take those properties …

By Celia Young |March 10, 2025 - 3:45PM
Section 8 rent assistance vouchers: A guide for New Yorkers

… the voucher system are almost nil because funding at the federal level dried up in the past decade This prompted … The agency is also a resource for those wanting to buy their first home through the State of New York Mortgage Agency  The SONYMA program allows firsttime homebuyers to get a loan if they have just 3 percent of the …

By Emily Myers |April 13, 2022 - 12:30PM
Hit the NYC jackpot: How to get an affordable Mitchell-Lama apartment to call your own

… it seems like a real estate fantasy But its not  Such apartments can become available through MitchellLama an … lists that stretch on for years and its not hard to see why Apartments in the program tend to be wellkept and large … New York State Senator MacNeil Mitchell and Assemblyman Alfred Lama who sponsored the bill that created it the …

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