A group of Orthodox Jewish tenants are suing the owners of a housing complex in Corona, Queens, alleging religious discrimination under the Fair Housing Act. In 2012, the 20-building complex embarked on a renovation project that added lobby doors...
A recent study looked at Airbnb home/apartment listings in 20 different Zip codes located throughout the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. It found that those listings which offered to rent entire homes or apartments on Airbnb’s...
Developers in line for tax breaks for building low-income housing in or near luxury buildings can no longer install a "poor door" to separate low-income tenants from those who pay market rates. The New York State ban was passed recently as...
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman recently announced a settlement deal with Bank of America and Citigroup in which the banks will provide $75 million to build or rehabilitate 2,300 rental units in the city and 1,500 elsewhere in the state...
Since Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s Airbnb report last fall, which found that 72 percent of all Airbnb transactions between 2010 and June 2014 violated state law, City Council members have been intensifying their efforts to stem the...
Newly released data by the Rent Guidelines Board shows the total number of rent-stabilized apartments in New York City increased in 2014, up 169 units. There were 9,182 apartments added to rent stabilization last year, compared to 9,013 that were...
New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman recently reached a $1.2 million settlement with developers who illegally converted rent-stabilized apartments to luxury condos. The developers agreed to pay $1.2 million to a city housing fund for...
Recently, the New York City council passed a bill that would require owners to provide tenants at least 24 hours’ notice before launching into any renovations that would “disrupt building services,” ranging from building heat to...
A group of advocates and state Assembly members recently called for the end of certain fees owners are legally allowed to charge rent-stabilized tenants to bump up the amount of money they collect every month. These levies include a $5 monthly...
Many aging apartment buildings in the Bronx do not have the resources to upgrade boilers and undertake major repairs and renovations to make them more energy efficient and to improve living conditions for tenants. In response to this problem,...
Last fall, Mayor de Blasio signed a bill increasing the maximum penalties for owners found to have harassed their tenants, from $5,000 to $10,000, and requiring the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to post a list online of owners...
New York City's Human Rights Commission (HRC) recently filed a notice that an owner’s policy of not allowing rent-stabilized tenants to use the gym is discriminatory. The notice followed a tenant's complaint that the rent-regulated...
