renting

Roommates + Landlords

By Evelyn Battaglia |June 16, 2025 - 10:30AM

New York City, East Village Apartment Buildings

Roommates + Landlords

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

By Celia Young |June 5, 2025 - 11:30AM

Looking down on New York streets from the top of a skyscraper

New Construction + Condos

New York state budget greenlights more condo conversions, new housing vouchers, but no down payment assistance

… housing voucher programthat could have major impacts on NYC housing in the coming years The budget includes some big … With a $50 million pilot program the budget funds a rental assistance program for New Yorkers at risk of or … for firsttime buyers … New Yorkers hoping to score some cash to make a down payment will be disappointed by this …

By Celia Young |May 22, 2025 - 10:30AM

Building facades in New York in winter view from street

Affordable Housing

Delayed Section 8 payments could worsen discrimination against tenants, NYC attorneys warn

By Celia Young |March 21, 2025 - 4:00PM

A rendering of the seven-story development in the East Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens.

Affordable Housing

Senior housing lottery launches for 73 rent-stabilized units in East Elmhurst

By Celia Young |March 13, 2025 - 12:30PM

Residential towers on the Upper East Side of Manhattan

Roommates + Landlords

I’ve sublet a rent-stabilized apartment in NYC for five years. How do I take it over?

By Celia Young |March 12, 2025 - 10:30AM

Graphic of Zohran Mamdani with the line "meet the mayoral candidates"

Neighborhood Intel

Zohran Mamdani wants more union-built housing and to expand rent stabilization in NYC

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

Lander also proposed ramping up code enforcement at NYC buildings where residents regularly complain of a lack of heat.

Neighborhood Intel

Brad Lander pitches homesharing and co-ownership for city workers to ease the housing crisis

By Celia Young |February 24, 2025 - 3:30PM

Roommates + Landlords

My NYC landlord charges $75 if the rent is three days late. Is that OK?

By Celia Young |February 19, 2025 - 3:30PM

Affordable Housing

How I won a two-bedroom apartment for $3,500 through NYC’s housing lottery

… April a pseudonym moved to New York City to attend college and she began applying to NYCs housing lottery after she … piece of furniture is my desk Its a vintage desk that we bought from a set designer It was in an HBO show and is from …

By Celia Young |February 17, 2025 - 3:00PM