Rental assistance program helps NYC tenants pay back $1 million in arrears, avoid eviction

… Brooklyn native Shaisha fell thousands of dollars behind on her rent … 2024 The program partners with landlords who refer tenants that are behind on rent to housing nonprofits such … who scores rental assistance less than the $12000 cost of evicting a tenant RiseBoro previously told Brick …

By Celia Young |June 5, 2025 - 11:30AM
New York state budget greenlights more condo conversions, new housing vouchers, but no down payment assistance

… passed in the whopping $254 billion New York state budget last month The budget lowers the number of renters or wouldbebuyers that … could buy their units to create a limited equity housing cooperative such as a Housing Development Fund Corporation …

By Celia Young |May 22, 2025 - 10:30AM
Zohran Mamdani wants more union-built housing and to expand rent stabilization in NYC

… Queens Assembly member Zohran Mamdani has ambitious plans for … building 200000 new housing units in New York City For current NYC tenants he wants to make the city more effective at … manager  Whitney Tilson Mamdani wants to build 200000 new rentstabilized apartments over the next 10 years grow the …

By Celia Young |March 3, 2025 - 3:30PM