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

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

… 200000 new housing units in New York City For current NYC tenants he wants to make the city more effective at … do Our vision is equal parts finally using the tools at our disposal and also expanding those very tools What weve seen … that New Yorkers will understand that they have a right to safe housing and will know exactly how to enforce that right …

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

… the ability to build a life in NYC and inspires one of his housing priorities He wants to make affordable homeownership … match renters with owners looking to rent out their extra rooms But its illegal in NYC to rent out an individual room … tools Im excited about is the public housing preservation trust to help support NYCHA units that dont want to stay as …