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Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Thursday that his administration had financed more than 17,300 affordable homes in its first year in office, a figure that he said put New [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDAt Christ Tabernacle, a megachurch in the Glendale neighborhood of Queens with thousands of members, Officer Rafael Ramos was remembered by those who gathered at his wake on Friday [...]

New York City's public housing agency has missed opportunities to obtain $692 million in federal funding by failing to follow up on its own plans to increase revenue, an audit [...]

At the information table at Housing Court in the Bronx, tenant after tenant approached, often anxious and often in a familiar predicament -- they owed their landlords rent and needed [...]

New York City housing officials have partly reversed a policy that would have forced thousands of low-income tenants to move to smaller apartments. The Department of Housing Preservation and Development [...]

Brooklyn Housing Court, the chaotic ugly duckling of the tenant-landlord court system, may have finally found a new home. But in keeping with its beleaguered status, it will not be [...]

In a decision with implications for millions of tenants, New York State's highest court ruled Thursday that a lease for a rent-regulated apartment is a public benefit and cannot be [...]

First came Hurricane Sandy, which left her homeless for a time. Then came the live-in boyfriend, who battered her. Now the 44-year-old mother of three young children is homeless again, [...]

More than a year after New York City started a program designed to reunite up to 150 former prisoners with their families in public housing, only seven people have successfully [...]

First he raised water and sewer rates. Then he helped engineer the skimpiest rent increases in the history of rent regulation. After that came the threats to mandate more investment [...]

A leading provider of social services for recently released prisoners is challenging a New York City landlord that, it says, has a policy of not renting to people with criminal [...]

In a policy shift that could help New York City retain its existing supply of affordable housing, the state will allow owners of hundreds of mixed-income rental buildings to sell [...]

Officials at New York State's Tenant Protection Unit said they have reached a settlement with a Brooklyn landlord accused of harassing longtime residents to clear the way for higher-paying tenants. [...]

New York City officials will publicly post the names of landlords found to have harassed tenants, hoping the public shaming will be a deterrent. The mayor signed a bill on [...]

New York City and state officials have thrown their weight behind an elderly widow fighting to keep her rent-stabilized lease from becoming an asset with which to pay off her [...]

The crushing news came less than a year after Diane Robinson and her 24-year-old son moved into an airy two-bedroom apartment in the Bronx. The city, which helps pay her [...]

A New York State program that helps finance affordable housing has contributed to delays in building and rehabilitating homes because of the questionable selection and lax monitoring of construction projects, [...]

A 33-story glassy tower rising on Manhattan's waterfront will offer all the extras that a condo buyer paying up to $25 million would expect, like concierge service, entertainment rooms, and [...]

State and city officials have agreed to create two rent subsidy programs to help families with children leave New York City shelters and move into their own apartments. In a [...]

Everyone, it seems, wants a piece of New York City public housing. Advocates for homeless people are demanding more apartments for families living in shelters. School officials want space in [...]

The first offer from the landlord's representative came in April: Take $90,000 to move out, the tenants said they were told, or the landlord would sue and they would lose [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe board that regulates rents for nearly one million apartments in New York City voted on Monday night to allow the lowest percentage rent increase in its 45-year existence, [...]

The board that decides how much landlords can raise rents for New York City's nearly 1 million regulated apartments is scheduled to vote on Monday whether to forgo increases for [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio, responding to an outcry over the killing of a 6-year-old boy in Brooklyn, blamed ''unacceptable bureaucracy'' on Tuesday for delays in installing security cameras in many [...]

For years, many older tenants of regulated apartments have been able to freeze their rents through a New York City program that will soon be expanded. But supporters of the [...]

With its rows of two-family homes and its corridors of auto repair shops and storefront churches, East New York sits far away from the heated debates over density and building [...]

New York City will commit $8.2 billion in public funds to a 10-year housing plan that could transform the cityscape from Cypress Hills in Brooklyn to the shores of the [...]

Nubia Chavez and Manuel Acu±a have been bouncing from rental to rental around New York City like millennials. They recently decamped to a $700-a-month room in a Queens apartment, with [...]

In a case that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is holding up as an example of ''egregious harassment,'' New York state and city officials are moving aggressively against a Brooklyn landlord [...]

The New York City comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, is recommending that the city focus its affordable housing efforts on the most burdened residents -- those in households making $40,000 or [...]

Like much of New York, Brooklyn Housing Court is having housing issues. The court has outgrown its cramped quarters in Downtown Brooklyn, but it is not as though it can [...]

The tenement buildings known as A. Philip Randolph Houses take up a block along West 114th Street in Harlem and stand as a relic from the 1800s, clashing with the [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday put his long-awaited stamp on the board that sets rents for about one million rent-regulated apartments in New York City. Filling five seats on [...]

Housing costs have risen beyond what New Yorkers can afford in many parts of the state, whether they rent or own, an examination released by the state comptroller's office shows. [...]

For years, tenants have complained that the city board that sets rents for about one million New York apartments has favored landlords. Now those tenants are counting on the new [...]

The letter from the landlord said he needed access to the apartments for a couple of weeks to make repairs. The worker who showed up the next morning was armed [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio filled four leadership positions throughout his housing agencies on Saturday, putting in place the team he said would help fulfill his goal of significantly expanding New [...]

From its perch as overseer of New York City's growth, the City Planning Commission has helped mayors put their own stamp on the landscape, whether with luxury Midtown towers or [...]

Judging from the pictures around her old office last month, there is no question which New York City mayor Lilliam Barrios-Paoli has been most fond of. There was Edward I. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDAfter Mayor Edward I. Koch instituted his housing plan in the 1980s, New York City created tens of thousands of affordable apartments by renovating vacant buildings in neighborhoods that [...]

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's plan to create a tax credit for New York renters would only begin to address an imbalance in tax policy that historically has favored homeowners over [...]

After riding the elevator to the top floor of a building in the Louis H. Pink Houses in Brooklyn and scanning the rooftop, the police officers made their way back […]

The Bloomberg administration will not make any decision about a plan to lease some open spaces on public housing land to private developers and will instead leave it to the [...]

The New York City Housing Authority will deal more quickly and more thoroughly with mold in its apartments as part of an agreement by the Bloomberg administration to settle a [...]

Two years ago, Chastity Ciprian said she asked about the two top-floor apartments, long vacant in her four-story building at Harlem River Houses, a public-housing project at the northern tip [...]

New York City's homeless population increased by 13 percent at the beginning of this year as it continued to buck a national trend, new federal statistics show. Homelessness, especially among [...]

The New York City Housing Authority will ease its ban on recently released prisoners and allow some of them to live in public housing as part of a pilot program [...]

Acting on the recommendations of a task force convened after Hurricane Sandy, the City Council on Thursday approved new requirements that were expected to make buildings more sustaining during emergencies […]