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Affordable Housing
Here's why wealthy renters end up with coveted spots in affordable housing meant for low-income New Yorkers

… Its a NYC real estate dream to qualify for socalled 8020 housing and pay way below market rate for an apartment in a … of tenants pay market rate and 20 percent pay much less for subsidized housing developers get a tax cut in exchange for …

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |June 9, 2017 - 10:15AM
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The Search
The Brick Underground Podcast: Apartment-hunting tips for post-grads

… editor  Lucy Blatter Cohen and contributing writer Alanna Schubach for sharing tips and advice they culled from …

By S. Jhoanna Robledo |May 30, 2017 - 8:59AM
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Affordable Housing
87 new affordable apartments available in the South Bronx for renters at multiple income levels
By Alanna Schubach |May 25, 2017 - 3:59PM
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Rent
Bushwick, Astoria, and more of the NYC neighborhoods where recent college grads can afford to live alone
By Lucy Cohen Blatter |May 25, 2017 - 12:30PM
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Live
The Second Avenue subway doesn't sit well in Astoria, rental markets remain sluggish, and more of the week's most popular stories
By |March 17, 2017 - 3:59PM
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Live
When your downstairs neighbor is a late-night jazz club
By Sophie Ekman |March 15, 2017 - 8:59AM
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Live
Who is the "average" New Yorker?
By Alanna Schubach |February 6, 2017 - 8:59AM
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A long search for a rental ends with taking the grassroots route
By Alanna Schubach |January 18, 2017 - 11:59AM
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Thanks to the Loft Law, renters can sometimes get out of paying rent—for years
By Lucy Cohen Blatter |January 10, 2017 - 2:59PM
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This 1994 City Council vote is the reason you can't afford your rent
By Virginia K. Smith |December 19, 2016 - 12:59PM