affordable housing

CU to build affordable housing complex for displaced residents

The building will total 42 units for residents, and the ground floor will also give a home to the Meeting With God Pentecostal Church, formerly located at 130th Street and Broadway.

By Abby Mitchell and Miles Johnson | Oct 24 02:57 am ET

UWS residents fear 85 percent rent increases

Residents fear that plans for their 91st Street parking garage could leave them in financial trouble.

By Katie Bentivoglio | Feb 15 02:49 am ET

New condo draws criticism

88 Morningside Ave., will be targeted toward mostly middle-class families.

By Kim Kirschenbaum | Apr 23 02:43 am ET

Activists criticize affordable housing process

70 housing activists, students, tenants, community organizers, and homeless individuals all filed into Hunter College on Saturday to answer “The Call,” at a forum organizers named after their core demand: “No More ‘Affordable’ Housing Scams.”

By Hien Truong | Mar 29 04:08 am ET

Coup leaves housing bills vulnerable

Since the Republicans took control of the New York state Senate on June 8 by a 32 to 30 advantage, three bills that tenant organizers say are imperative to the protection of affordable housing have yet to make it to the floor.

By Katherine Meduski | Sep 29 07:54 pm ET

Housing Amendment Would Allow Ownership

Fluctuations in the New York housing market may have some renters worried about losing their city-subsidized homes. But proposed changes in affordable housing law may soon give them hope.

By Katherine Meduski | Mar 10 09:23 pm ET

Planned Rezoning Elicits Housing Concerns at Community Board 9

Affordable housing and public-school overcrowding took the forefront at Thursday evening’s Community Board 9 meeting, as the board focused on issues surrounding the rezoning of 125th Street before

By Daniel Amzallag | Apr 18 03:14 am ET

New High-Rises to Include Affordable Units

Community Board 10 voted in favor of a proposal to develop a series of lots on Frederick Douglass Boulevard into a high-rise condominium Wednesday night, ending a series of disagreements and negoti

By Alix Pianin | Mar 6 03:27 am ET

NYC Pensions Makes Fiscal Move To Protect Affordable Housing

The New York City Pension Funds agreed Thursday to abandon investments deemed to negatively impact affordable housing, according to a press release from City Comptroller William C.

By Kevin Shin | Feb 29 03:17 am ET

Columbia and the Affordable Housing Crisis

Over and over again we hear the argument that “gentrification,” or the general upgrading in the availability of housing to higher and higher socio-economic groups is the inevitable “result of marke

By Tom Kappner | Feb 27 09:25 pm ET

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