Your vote: What you need to know about the affordable housing questions on the November ballot

… construction in NYCsomething NYC desperately needs to keep up with demandand early polling shows that the measures are … Annemarie Gray the executive director of prodevelopment group Open New York in a statement These ballot measures … the City Council They also would at least as written speed up the process of approving certain affordable housing …

By Celia Young |November 4, 2025 - 9:00AM
Whoever wins the NYC mayor’s race faces a worsening housing crisis, affordable developers say

… New York Citys affordable housing developers are gearing up to build under a new mayor … inherit a few key advantages a city drastically rezoned by City of Yes which will broadly allow for more housing … to federal housing assistance could be catastrophic for owners and tenants  In NYC roughly 34000 landlords rely on …

By Celia Young |October 16, 2025 - 10:30AM
What is the certificate of occupancy and why is it such a big deal?

… is sometimes shortened to C of O or just CO It identifies how a building can be usedfor example whether it is zoned for commercial or … an opportunity for the buyer to renegotiate a lower price with the leverage of walking away In many cases this …

By Evelyn Battaglia |October 7, 2025 - 2:00PM