Each Friday, City Limits rounds up the latest news on housing, land use and homelessness. Catch up on what you might have missed here.
Advocates putting up a sign in Foley Square Tuesday morning, ahead of a rally for social housing bills under consideration in the City Council. (Photo by Adi Talwar)
Welcome to “What Happened This Week in NYC Housing?” where we compile the latest local news about housing, land use and homelessness.
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ICYMI, from City Limits:
The Trump administration released more details on the president’s 2026 budget proposal, which local experts say would be “disastrous” for New York City’s housing agencies. If it comes to pass, it could cut city housing programs by up to 42 percent, with the biggest impact on low income renters, including NYCHA tenants.
Advocates and City Council members are making a renewed push to pass a package of “social housing” bills aimed at de-privatizing residential properties across the five boroughs, creating more opportunities for community land trusts and nonprofit ownership.
Want to know if a building has rent-stabilized apartments? A new law will require city landlords to post signs in their properties’ common areas disclosing as much—an effort to help tenants challenge overcharges and illegal rent hikes.
The debate over who should get to make land use and development decisions continues. “I suggest the creation of a new city position, the Zoning Administrator, who would be entrusted with approvals expected to result in few real-world adverse effects,” Manhattan Institute’s Eric Kober argues in an oped.
City Limits just welcomed two new housing reporters! Patrick Spauster ([email protected]) joins as our new housing and homelessness reporter, while CUNY Newmark intern Tareq Saghie ([email protected]) will spend the summer reporting on tenant issues. Send them story tips!
ICYMI, from other local newsrooms:
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he’s been endorsed by several NYCHA tenant leaders in the race for mayor—but at least seven of those public housing residents said that’s not the case, according to reporting by The City.
City Councilmember and Land Use Chair Rafael Salamanca Jr., who is running for Bronx Borough President, has raked in significant campaign money from the city’s developers, some of whom have given both to his current election bid and to another campaign committee for an unpaid position in the Bronx Democratic Party, New York Focus reports.
Brooklyn leaders are slamming the state for not enforcing pricey penalties against the developers behind the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park project, who’ve failed to deliver on promised affordable housing by a May 31 deadline, according to Gothamist.
Here’s what the Democratic candidates for mayor pay for their housing, per Politico.
A pastor in East New York is looking to help slow the exodus of Black New Yorkers priced out of the city by building affordable apartments, the New York Times reports.
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