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Housing

  1. migrant crisis
    Eric Adams Closes His Big Tent on Randall’s IslandMigrants are moving to hotels, which is what many advocates asked for in the first place.
    By Clio Chang
  2. space
    We’re Getting Closer to a Martian Housing MarketNine subterranean caves have been identified as potentially suitable habitats, if you’re into that kind of thing.
    By Clio Chang
  3. crime
    The Bees of WrathRorie Woods knew foreclosure all too well. And when her friend was evicted, she rushed over with a venomous posse.
    By James D. Walsh
  4. migrant crisis
    The Randalls Island Migrant Shelter Is Looking a Lot Less Temporary“There is no limit to how long people that are seeking asylum can stay in this facility.”
    By Clio Chang
  5. street fights
    13 Years, 3 Mayors, Countless Community Board Meetings, and Just One BuildingThe tortured saga of turning a Hell’s Kitchen parking lot into 112 affordable apartment units.
    By Bridget Read
  6. curbed glossary
    The Helicopter Landlord Lives DownstairsAnd wonders if the guy who was over last night is your new boyfriend or just a friend.
    By Clio Chang
  7. housing
    ‘I Don’t Think Anyone Should Buy Land in Any Metaverse Right Now’Chatting with Jessica Stocker, Winter House’s skeptical virtual real-estate agent.
    By Bridget Read
  8. the housing market
    New York City’s Rent and Wage-Growth Gap Hits Record HighWe’ve hit another miserable milestone.
    By Clio Chang
  9. celebrities
    Grimes Is a YIMBYShe says she needed Elon Musk to help her buy a house in Austin.
    By Clio Chang
  10. housing
    Unsurprisingly, Dwell Magazine is Now Selling Its Own Prefab ADUsFor just $389,000.
    By Diana Budds
  11. the city politic
    New York’s Leaders Are Sleeping Through a Housing EmergencyThe political response should reflect the size and speed of the worsening crisis. It hasn’t even come close.
    By Errol Louis
  12. the city politic
    Why Are So Many of New York’s Basement Apartments Still Death Traps?It’s been a year since floodwaters drowned 11 New Yorkers in their homes, but nothing has been done to stop it from happening again.
    By Errol Louis
  13. housing
    Landlords Are Trying to Make ‘Tenantsplaining’ a ThingOur housing providers are having a little fun.
    By Clio Chang
  14. housing
    A Woman in the Bronx Fell Through Her Bathroom FloorA new addition to your list of tenant nightmares.
    By Clio Chang
  15. housing
    To Keep Its Ancient Equipment Going, NYCHA Makes Its Own PartsWith so many obsolete boilers and elevators out there, there’s no other way.
    By Felipe De La Hoz
  16. lawsuits
    Brad Pitt Settles Lawsuit Over Defective New Orleans HomesResidents of the shoddy houses his foundation built after Hurricane Katrina will receive $20.5 million for repairs.
    By Danielle Cohen
  17. housing
    Rat Infestation? Leaky Ceiling? Good Luck in CourtTenants say judges are taking too long to order landlord repairs since the pandemic began.
    By Bryce Covert
  18. the housing market
    Manhattan Rents Broke Another RecordAverage rents reached more than $5000 in July.
    By Clio Chang
  19. upstate
    Kingston Becomes the First Upstate City to Adopt Rent ControlThe move will probably set the stage for other cities upstate to follow suit.
    By Clio Chang
  20. housing
    The Regulars Rooting for a Crash at Brooklyn’s Foreclosure AuctionsHope springs eternal for the small-time hustler.
    By Molly Osberg
  21. sticker shock
    Why Don’t Democrats Care About the Housing Emergency?Once the domain of big cities, the surging cost of rent across the country is driving record inflation.
    By Ross Barkan
  22. housing
    Obama Blames Liberal NIMBYs for the Housing Crisis TooAt the American Institute of Architects’ 2022 convention, he criticized “bipartisan resistance” to affordable, mixed-income housing.
    By Diana Budds
  23. the rent is too damn high
    Rent-Stabilized Apartments Are About to Get More ExpensiveThe Rent Guidelines Board voted, tenants booed, landlords cleaned up.
    By Clio Chang
  24. the housing market
    Somehow, the Rental Market Is Only Getting WorsePrepare for a hellish summer.
    By Clio Chang
  25. housing
    Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches for Good Cause EvictionTenant activists released a swarm of the noisy bugs into an Albany courtroom.
    By Clio Chang
  26. emergency housing
    For Fire Victims, a Year of Bedbugs, Mold, and Takeout at the Airway InnThe Jackson Heights tenants displaced by a major building fire are still waiting to return home.
    By Amir Khafagy
  27. debt
    A Long, Strange Year of Rent ReliefIt was a tedious, administrative nightmare. It also (mostly) worked.
    By Clio Chang
  28. semantics
    The Landlords Embarrassed to Be Called Landlords“I cringe when I hear it, and when I say it.”
    By Bridget Read
  29. curbed glossary
    The Apartment Mayor Is the Roommate Who Never LeavesThese long-term tenants can set your rent and tell you how long the buzzer’s really been broken.
    By Clio Chang
  30. housing
    Landlords Can Now Screen Your Pet’s ‘Credit Score’And charge you accordingly.
    By Clio Chang
  31. housing
    Housing Court Is BreakingWatching the quiet chaos unfold in a Queens courtroom.
    By Bridget Read
  32. housing
    More Luxury Developments Are Apparently Falling ApartWe are spotting a trend.
    By Clio Chang
  33. street fights
    ‘I’m Not Sure Whether I Wanted It to Go This Far’A fight over garden-bed rotations and democratic living at one of the city’s most storied co-ops.
    By Clio Chang
  34. housing
    The Cruel Theater of Encampment SweepsAdams’s task force cleared hundreds of sites. Five people accepted a bed.
    By Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
  35. housing
    Is This a Boat?Miami officials say no.
    By Clio Chang
  36. crime
    What Made the ‘MoMA Stabber’ Snap?And why do so many people want the reason to be homelessness?
    By Bridget Read
  37. housing
    How Airbnb Reinvented Itself As the World’s Crisis-Housing ProviderIn times of disaster, from war in Ukraine to wildfires in California, the platform is hoping to become something closer to critical infrastructure.
    By Molly Osberg
  38. bad landlords
    Can New York Really Ban a Nightmare Landlord From Real Estate?Yes, and Raphael Toledano learned that the hard way.
    By Caroline Spivack
  39. disaster
    Twin Parks Tenants Are Stuck in Housing Limbo“My daughter is petrified and can’t even look at the building without crying.”
    By Caroline Spivack
  40. housing
    AOC Is a YIMBY NowAnd she wants to flood local, state, and federal campaigns with pro-housing candidates.
    By Diana Budds
  41. election 2022
    Vax Daddy Is Totally Serious About HousingHuge Ma is challenging a 37-year incumbent to represent Queens in the Assembly.
    By Caroline Spivack
  42. housing
    Congratulations, Jason Korn! You’re No Longer the City’s Worst LandlordBut the apartments are still pretty terrible.
    By Caroline Spivack
  43. developing
    A Family of Three Making $42,000 Will Be Able to Live in SohoThe neighborhood rezoning, expected to pass Wednesday, will prioritize affordability.
    By Caroline Spivack
  44. power
    Why Did It Take Howard So Long to Listen to Students?HBCU students have been protesting unlivable housing conditions — including rampant mold infestations — for weeks.
    By Clarissa Brooks
  45. architecture
    Yes, Build the Windowless, Bathroomless Dorm in My BackyardSure, let the dilettante billionaire have a crack at it.
    By Choire Sicha
  46. housing
    There Are 30,000 Basement Apartments the City Doesn’t Know AboutMore than 5,000 are in East New York.
    By Caroline Spivack
  47. housing
    Should Landlords Be Required to Pay for Your Internet?A new bill promises to not pass the cost on to renters.
    By Caroline Spivack
  48. assessment
    Can Eric Adams Really Turn 25,000 Hotel Rooms Into Affordable Housing?Even after all the past year’s closures, that’s a lot of real estate.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  49. podcasts
    At the Threshold of a Private UtopiaEpisode one of Nice Try! Interior invites you into the home.
    By Diana Budds
  50. housing
    New York Went From Worst to Best At Handing Out Rent ReliefThere’s still a lot of work to be done, but Governor Kathy Hochul deserves credit for getting us this far.
    By Caroline Spivack
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