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Governor Kathy Hochul presents the Fiscal Year 2025 Executive Budget in the Red Room at the State Capitol.

Hochul Housing Deal Prompts Pushback and a Big Question: Will It Be Enough?

April 15, 2024, 5:01 a.m.April 14, 2024, 9:43 p.m.

Measures include a new developer tax break, “good cause” tenant protections, rent increases for improved vacant apartments and unshackling New York City’s development powers.

City Hall

Pushback Grows as Council and Mayor Hash Out Deal to Revive Property Debt Sell-Off

April 11, 2024, 5:06 p.m.April 16, 2024, 9:43 a.m.

Tax lien sales have been on pause since the pandemic. Now community advocates are demanding a final goodbye to the cash-generating program Mayor Rudy Giuliani created.

Legal Aid Society housing attorney Kirsten Nelson speaks with a client outside Brooklyn court, April 4, 2024.

How to New York: Court

How to Get Free Legal Help for Evictions and Housing Court in New York City

April 8, 2024, 5:00 a.m.May 29, 2024, 8:39 a.m.

Some New Yorkers will be assigned a free attorney as they start their case. Others will have to help themselves — because there are too many cases and too few lawyers.

of the Rent Guidelines Board prepare to take a preliminary vote while council and tenant advocates try to disrupt the meeting at Cooper Union, May 2, 2023.

How to New York

How the Rent Guidelines Board Sets the Hike on Your Next Lease

March 27, 2024, 2:10 p.m.May 14, 2024, 3:57 p.m.

The nine-person takes a final vote in June affecting one million rent-stabilized apartments. Here’s THE CITY’s guide to how the RGB decides how much is too much for tenants to pay.

Construction workers erect a mixed-use skyscraper in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Rent

Albany Housing Inaction Boomerangs on Increasingly Pricey City

March 14, 2024, 4:59 a.m.March 13, 2024, 7:38 p.m.

Rents are rising, apartment development starts drop and construction jobs decline, new statistics show.

Housing

TikToks Sharing NYC Rent Overcharge Stories Drive Surge of Tenant Records Requests

Feb. 29, 2024, 12:22 p.m.Feb. 29, 2024, 1:34 p.m.

One post from a Lower East Sider who got $6,000 in back rent has racked up more than four million views. The state housing agency says it’s now getting 2,000 inquiries a week, double the usual rate.