Virginia K. Smith

Sometimes the affordable housing gods (read: developers) offer up hundreds of apartments in a brand-new development to renters, and sometimes, they have just one or two listings at a time. This week, we're looking at the latter option, as the lottery opened up for just two affordable rentals in Bushwic, per a listing on NYC Housing Connect.

A haunted mansion, a ghost town, and other "spooky" listings currently on the market (AM NY)

Airbnb put up (and already apologized for) some tone-deaf new ads around SF (SF Weekly)

We've occasionally been known to toy with the idea of fleeing the five boroughs for the spacious, relatively well-priced housing options out in the 'burbs. (We're only human.) But if the latest round of Douglas Elliman market reports is any indication, buyers itching to own an honest-to-god house may as well stay put in the city: in Greenwich, Connecticut, for instance, the median price of a single-family home is now $1.86 million.

Forget tiny houses: move into this Guinness record-setting LEGO Caravan (Mental Floss)

The Financial District deserves way more credit as a fun-to-live-in neighborhood (Thrillist)

After years in limbo, Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village got a new owner this week—and with it, protections for nearly half of its rent-stabilized apartments. At a press conference yesterday, it was announced that the Blackstone Group is acquiring the middle-income rental complex for a cool $5.3 billion, as Bloomberg reported, and is partnering with the city to preserve a large chunk of its affordable apartments.