Addressing New York City’s Housing Crisis: “City Of Yes” Is Not Enough
As America’s housing affordability crisis continues, some cities and states like New York are taking useful, but still ...
How to kick someone out of your house — including family members
Landlords who live with family members can find themselves in many uncomfortable situations—including eviction.
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Federal Frenzy Puts Public Housing Funding and Nonprofit Grants in Question
The viability of apartments for more than half a million low-income New Yorkers relies on federal dollars that the Trump ...
Midlevel Appellate Court Reinstates New York's Voting Rights Act
A state appellate court on Thursday unanimously reinstated New York's John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2022, a law that prohibits "vote dilution" actions by municipalities. In a ruling penned by ...
A Wyandanch family lived without heat for months. Their landlord now faces a criminal charge.
Xiomara Mejia’s house is warm again, after a monthslong battle with her landlord and a journey through a maze of Long Island ...
Almost half of evicted women and families in metro Detroit say they were illegally pushed out of their homes
Due to historical and contemporary structural racism in the U.S., Black renters and their children are affected the most. For example, 20% of Black adult renters compared with 4% of white adult ...
New York City Landlord Wants You Out? There Had Better Be ‘Good Cause.’
Renters are feeling emboldened by a new law that can help them hang onto their homes and fight bank-breaking rent increases ...
She’s Raising Her Daughter in Her Own Childhood Apartment
It took a ruling from New York State’s highest court, and a critical renovation of the building, to make a dream come true.