Tag: Affordable Housing

The Housing Crisis Forces Change on a Low-Rise Pocket of Brooklyn

Change doesn’t always come easily in Brooklyn’s liberal strongholds. But New York’s push to build more housing in every corner of the city — even in places that have sometimes been skeptical of new development — cleared a significant hurdle on Wednesday, when a key City Council committee approved a zoning change that will clear […]

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New York City Landlord Wants You Out? There Had Better Be ‘Good Cause.’

Last winter, Eileen Kelley received a notice that her landlord was not going to renew her lease when it expired in a few months. After eight years in the East Village, a neighborhood in Manhattan she had come to love for its street markets and parks, Ms. Kelley, 29, confronted the sudden possibility that she […]

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What Los Angeles Could Learn From Great Fires of the Past

In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like possibility. Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871 accelerated its rise as a dominant metropolis. In Boston, which burned in 1872, the value of land newly topped with better buildings surged. After its 1889 fire, Seattle built […]

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Spain Seeks to Curb Short-Term Rentals Amid Growing Housing Crisis

The Spanish government is moving to rein in real estate purchases by foreigners and curb the spread of short-term rentals, part of a series of measures that officials say are necessary to alleviate a painful housing crunch that has rapidly become one of the worst in Europe. Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, said on Wednesday […]

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New York City Seeks Jolt for Midtown With Plan to Build 10,000 Homes

A new proposal to ease New York City’s housing crisis would make way for nearly 10,000 apartments in parts of Midtown Manhattan that do not currently allow new residential construction, a shift officials hope will reinvigorate an area that has come to represent economic challenge. The plan, which city officials introduced at a Planning Commission […]

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With ‘City of Yes,’ New York Finally Gets Real About the Housing Crisis

For decades now, progress in solving New York’s housing crisis has stagnated amid the contest between two dominant visions: one that would have the city build up and up and up as if it were Hong Kong, and another that would privilege intimate scale — in some parts of the city meaning the charming traditions […]

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Scott Turner, Trump’s Housing Pick, Will Face Questions From Senators

Scott Turner, a former pro football player whom President-elect Donald J. Trump has picked to lead the Housing and Urban Development Department, emphasized the need to boost the supply of affordable housing and reduce regulatory barriers during his confirmation hearing on Thursday. Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, Mr. Turner said the agency was “failing […]

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