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

… a longtime metric that determines who qualifies for affordable housingand replacing it with a measure for the … promised to eliminate credit scores for rental and buyer applications and said hed institute a tax on piedsàterre to … back NYCs shortterm rental restrictions and allowing small homeowners to rent out their properties for fewer than 30 …

By Celia Young |March 24, 2025 - 4:00PM
Hit the NYC jackpot: How to get an affordable Mitchell-Lama apartment to call your own

… the case of rental buildings the landlord can take the property out of the program once the mortgage is paid off … and family size In other words the number of people in your household has to match up with the bedroom count of the … people signed up to fill apartments for the foreseeable future However occasionally these buildings exhaust their …

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