When Bill de Blasio campaigned to be mayor eight years ago, he pledged to fix New York City's property tax system. In May 2018, Mayor de Blasio and Council Speaker Corey Johnson convened the New York City Advisory Commission on Property Tax Reform to recommend reforms to the system to make...
A new state law that will boost rental subsidies to thousands of struggling New York City families living in shelters or at risk of eviction has been signed into law, taking effect immediately. With the bill's signing, Governor Hochul announced $100 million is available for counties to help...
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) recently announced a major settlement agreement with a Brooklyn-based landlord who has topped the NYC Public Advocate’s Worst Landlord Watchlist two years in a row.
On Nov. 15, the City Planning Commission voted to approve the Permanent Open Restaurants Program zoning text amendment in a special public hearing. The vote was 10-0 with one recusal.
The proposed Permanent Open Restaurants program will transfer the control of sidewalk cafes to the...
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz recently announced that a couple from Jamaica, Queens, have been charged with grand larceny in the third degree, criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree, falsifying business records in the first degree, and offering a false instrument for...
New York Attorney General Letitia James recently announced a settlement with a major New York City landlord. The agreement resolves an investigation conducted by the Office of the Attorney General...
Since the Supreme Court blocked the CDC's eviction moratorium on Aug. 26, New York State has achieved the distinction of becoming the first state to sign a new eviction moratorium into law. The Supreme Court had previously limited New York State's tenant protections in the COVID-19...
On Aug. 12, the Supreme Court granted an injunction that immediately suspended the tenant protections in the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Act, an anti-eviction law originally passed on Dec. 28, 2020, and subsequently extended. The act gave renters the opportunity to submit an...
The nationwide eviction moratorium had lapsed on Saturday, July 31. On Tuesday, Aug. 3, the CDC issued a new, more limited freeze that remains in effect for two months, until Oct. 3.
Program will help owners comply with the Climate Mobilization Act.
By Paula Chin, Contributing Editor
Help is on the way for NYC apartment building owners worried about the high cost of retrofits that will help them reduce their buildings’ carbon emissions and...
The Housing Our Neighbors With Dignity Act was recently passed by the New York State Legislature. It will allow some distressed hotels to be converted into permanent low-income housing units. Sponsored by Senate Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris and Assemblymember Karines Reyes, the bill...
