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For as long as I can remember growing up in Puerto Rico, El Morro, the indestructible fort with the endless lawns at the entrance to San Juan harbor, was where [...]

Last November, with Puerto Rico thrown into chaos after Hurricane Maria, I was frantically trying to reach a funeral home in San Juan. My dear cousin Alma Otero-Pérez, a free-spirited [...]

Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated islands in the Caribbean last September. Six months later, how are they recovering? To find out, writers for Travel spent time in Vieques , St. [...]

Byline: MIREYA NAVARRO Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated islands in the Caribbean last September. Six months later, how are they recovering? To find out, writers for Travel spent time in [...]

For two weeks after the devastation of Hurricane Maria in September, Frances Westerman, a retiree from Kent in northwestern Connecticut, said she got information from Puerto Rico only in dribs [...]

Once mostly defined by Puerto Ricans, Latino New York has grown to more than 2.4 million residents with roots all over Latin America, the largest such population of any American [...]

Byline: MIREYA NAVARRO For two weeks after the devastation of Hurricane Maria in September, Frances Westerman, a retiree from Kent in northwestern Connecticut, said she got information from Puerto Rico [...]

Smoking will be prohibited in public housing residences nationwide under a federal rule announced on Wednesday. Officials with the Department of Housing and Urban Development said that the rule would [...]

A building sells for twice as much as the average price in the neighborhood. For another building, multiple work permits are being sought from the city for renovations. To the [...]

Housing is generally considered affordable if a household allots no more than 30 percent of its income to home payments and utilities. By that standard, more than half of renters [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDDuring the single-digit temperatures in winter 2015, the family, with five children, had no heat and no hot water. That, the authorities say, was not even the worst of [...]

The board that sets rents for more than one million rent-stabilized apartments in New York City voted on Monday to freeze rents for one-year leases for the second year in [...]

A New Jersey mother was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after her 6-year-old son fatally shot his 4-year-old brother while playing with a gun, the authorities said. [...]

For decades, the cost of renting a regulated apartment in New York has been partly determined not just by annual increases approved by a city board, but also by the [...]

Moving toward its goal of building 80,000 new affordable housing units over 10 years, the de Blasio administration plans to announce on Thursday that it will lease public housing land [...]

New York City's rent-stabilized tenants could see another rent freeze this year for one-year leases after a vote on Tuesday by members of the city's Rent Guidelines Board. The board [...]

As New York City tries to spur construction of tens of thousands of apartments to meet an accelerating need for below-market-rate housing, a deeper problem has largely gone unmentioned by [...]

Private landlords who have blanket bans on renting to people with criminal records are in violation of the Fair Housing Act and can be sued and face penalties for discrimination, [...]

The death of an 84-year-old man in December in an elevator at a Bronx housing project exposed ''significant flaws'' in how public housing officials complied with safety laws and responded [...]

The leader of the New York City Housing Authority said on Friday that her staff had turned more than 400 million records over to federal prosecutors who are reviewing tenant [...]

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are conducting a sweeping investigation of environmental health and safety conditions, including cases of elevated blood lead levels, in public housing and homeless shelters and the [...]

A proposal by Mayor Bill de Blasio to rezone parts of the city to build more housing cleared its most important hurdle on Monday, emerging from a City Council meeting [...]

Evictions in New York City dropped last year to their lowest level in a decade, as the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio bolstered efforts to prevent more New Yorkers [...]

For most of the last two decades, financing affordable housing in New York City has been a predictable process, instrumental in adding tens of thousands of apartments for lower-income households [...]

New York City's scarcity of inexpensive land is often cited as an impediment to building more affordable housing, but the comptroller's office has identified more than 1,000 city-owned vacant lots [...]

The first sign that the City Council hearing would be different was the sign-up sheet for speakers, which would grow to more than 200 entries. And the fact that the [...]

Public housing agencies are asking for more time and resources to put in effect a proposed federal ban on smoking that would affect nearly one million households nationwide. Officials with [...]

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's budget this year calls for more state control over the financing of affordable housing, a move that New York City officials and affordable housing representatives say [...]

At a time when rent-stabilized tenants in New York City are enjoying a freeze in their rents, another group of regulated tenants -- the dwindling minority in rent-controlled apartments -- [...]