Landlords routinely break the law by refusing to rent to rental voucher holders. The Unlock NYC tech collaborative has partnered with tenant groups to create an innovative tool that could help end that practice.
What Is Governors Island For? Redevelopment Plan Ignites Controversy
Critics vow to fight on after Community Board One votes in favor of a massive rezoning of the popular recreational site in the middle of New York Harbor.
Hurricane Warning: Tenants Nationwide Face a Looming Wave of Evictions
Tenant organizers in Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Missouri, Illinois & California speak out.
It’s Time to Reignite New York’s Social Housing Revolution
While we fight for federal and state support to cancel back rent, protect tenants from eviction, and make small landlords whole, we need to lay the groundwork for a future where working-class New Yorkers are never this vulnerable again.
People’s Liberation March Calls for Mutual Aid, Police Abolition As BLM Organizing Continues
“I want to take care of my community because the government is not doing it,” says one protester.
For Brooklyn Real Estate Interests, Robert Cornegy Is a Premium Investment
Brooklyn borough president candidate rails against ‘political gentrification’ by socialist upstarts while lining his coffers with campaign contributions from high-end real estate developers.
Will NYC Still Be Real Estate Capital of the World After Covid?
While most New Yorkers have been locked in their neighborhoods during the pandemic, the privileged ones left for the…
Will The City Council Finally Pass The Small Business Jobs Survival Act?
Sick of the chain pharmacies plastering New York’s corners with stock photos of grotesquely happy people? The Windex windows,…
California Dreaming? This Developer Could Be a Nightmare for Crown Heights
A proposal to build a series of luxury high-rises near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is drawing opposition from tenant…
Seeing Green: A Developer Envisions 30-story Towers Near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Megatowers, shady developers, community resistance — it’s a story so commonplace these days it is almost a bad joke.…