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Affordable Housing
Here's how incomes—and rents—are REALLY calculated in NYC's affordable housing

… for a spot in one of the citys rare affordable 8020 rentals often when you look into a buildings income … on data from the larger New York metro area which includes wealthy parts of Long Island New Jersey and and Connecticut … many other New Yorkers are in dire need I think when most people think of affordable housing they think about helping …

By Virginia K. Smith |September 15, 2016 - 8:59AM
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Roommates + Landlords
How to find out if your building has a J-51 tax abatement—and if your rent was raised illegally
By Virginia K. Smith |September 1, 2016 - 10:30AM
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Affordable Housing
Why rent control isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be
By Alanna Schubach |August 31, 2016 - 2:46PM
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Roommates + Landlords
How one Queens renter outsmarted a landlord trying to deregulate his apartment
By Alanna Schubach |August 30, 2016 - 12:20PM
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Co-ops
Should our co-op be worried about a new sponsor hassling our tenants?
By Virginia K. Smith |June 20, 2016 - 1:59PM
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Affordable Housing
Good news for stabilized renters: That rent freeze might last another year
By Virginia K. Smith |May 4, 2016 - 4:15PM
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Neighborhood Intel
50,000 illegally de-regulated apartments forced to return to stabilized status

… and will now return to its formerly stabilized rate Landlords of thousands of buildings across all five boroughs … The TPU was created in 2011 and acts as a kind of watchdog monitoring landlord misconduct One of TPUs projects the … to the registry saves the state billions by minimizing the need to build new affordable housing This isnt the first …

By Alanna Schubach |April 13, 2016 - 2:59PM