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Public Advocate Letitia James Blames Airbnb for Brooklyn’s Affordable Housing...
If you’re a frequent reader of this site, you may have picked up on a theme: Brooklyn housing prices are skyrocketing, forcing people out of neighborhoods. Letitia Jams, Public Advocate and former...
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Apply Now for East New York Apartments Starting at Under $500/Month
Photo via MHGArchitects Interested in saving money on rent? Ha ha. Talk about your rhetorical questions, right? Right. Of course you are. Rent consumes a ridiculous amount of our incomes (some estimate...
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Developers, City Have Decided Epic Views Only For People With Epic Bank Accounts
(Photo: Brooklyn Heights Blog) Ten years ago the Brooklyn Heights Association (BHA), a well-organized neighborhood specific activist network, came to an agreement with private developers. In the...
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How New York City’s Affordable Housing Program Has Failed Its Neediest Residents
A very important hearing was held yesterday morning at City Hall. And bear with us, because there’s a lot of complicated stuff going on here, but you will feel way, way more informed about the current...
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De Blasio Announced a Bunch of Exciting New Plans Today for Affordable...
(Photo: NYC Mayor’s Office) In many ways, Mayor de Blasio’s first year in office has been a stark departure from the Bloomberg reign. It’s not all that surprising then that de Blasio, who has...
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This Online Game Lets You Build Affordable Housing in NYC
Screen shot of Inside the Rent, Courtesy: chpcyny.org If you’ve ever wondered about the cost of building an affordable housing unit in New York City, you can now learn firsthand the price of...
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This Animated Video Outlines the Mayor’s Ten Year Affordable Housing Plan
New York City is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis, and most New Yorkers are seeing their wages flatline while the cost of rent skyrockets. And according to the mayor’s office, the city is...
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Brooklyn So Expensive, 56 Thousand People Compete to Live Affordably Near...
The lovely filth that is the Gowanus Canal. For starters, this: A residential high-rise set to open this winter at 365 Bond Street in Gowanus—home of one of the country’s most toxic waterways—received...
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Nuts & Bolts of MONTH2MONTH
Artists, cultural critics and occasional collaborators Jennifer Dalton and Bill Powhida are launching a new public art project very soon, and it’s a most compelling one. It’s called MONTH2MONTH, and...
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Staten Island Is the Next Borough You Won’t Be Able to Afford
I have a close friend who moved from Crown Heights to Staten Island in 2009. For her quiet island quarters—a huge house split with two other people a five-minute walk from the Staten Island ferry—she...
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