NYC’s Airbnb ban failed to lower rents or boost vacancies, report finds
New York promised its 2023 Airbnb ban would free up apartments and ease rents, but two years later rents are higher than ever, vacancies are near zero and the Big ...
Tag: affordable housing
Wealthy Connecticut town fights against project that would build 75 affordable housing units: ‘Insult to Bethel’
O little town of Bethel! A wealthy Connecticut suburb is facing down a Manhattan-based real estate development firm that wants to build a 75-unit affordable housing project — with well-heeled ...
Cuomo bashes ‘rich person’ Zohran Mamdani for hogging $2,300 apartment from homeless New Yorkers
Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is a “rich person” hogging affordable housing from homeless New Yorkers — and it’s “time to move out,” ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote in a scathing social ...
Mayor Adams must implement controversial and costly City Council housing voucher plan, NY court rules
Mayor Eric Adams was handed a blow Thursday when a state court ordered his administration to comply with the city council’s controversial plan to expand the Big Apple’s housing voucher ...
Locals protest incoming homeless shelter after alleged NYC bait-and-switch: ‘Community is outraged’
Throngs of demonstrators marched through the normally sleepy streets of Sheepshead Bay to protest plans for a family homeless shelter — as locals claimed the city pulled a bait and ...
