Mayor Eric Adams recently announced the team who will lead his administration’s low-income housing strategy. Jessica Katz will lead the team as the city’s chief housing officer. Adolfo Carrión Jr. will serve as commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (...
A landlord has been banned from New York real estate after violating an agreement with the state attorney general’s office to end illegal business practices and tenant harassment. The New York Supreme Court issued an order barring the landlord, Raphael Toledano, from engaging in any New...
Governor Kathy Hochul, with Division of the Budget Director Robert F. Mujica Jr., recently outlined her Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Executive Budget. "We have the means to immediately respond to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as embrace this once-in-a-generation opportunity for the future with a...
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...
