🚨 building new housing is good for rents, more studies show 🚨bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

In v interesting, wide-ranging interview, Mayor Adams tells Nick Garber that he would back a state-level housing compromise that includes both a 421-a replacement & a form of 'good cause' eviction protections: crainsnewyork.com/politics-polic…

An awesome read by Ben Hitchcock edited by yours truly.

I wanted to see how many proposed apartments get trimmed from housing plans that require a rezoning — either bc the application got killed or modified I compared project descriptions to final outcomes and got 2,600+ units, with ~1200 income-restricted gothamist.com/news/despite-n…

I’ve watched this with my Dad every year since I can remember. Still holding onto our tradition 🎄❤️

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Fully agree with NYS Senator Zellnor Y. Myrie 米维 on how to tackle our housing crisis ⬇️ “Allowing new housing development—in conjunction with other measures to protect tenants and make New York more affordable—is how our city can survive and thrive in the years to come.” citylimits.org/2024/01/03/opi…

I wrote about land taxes (stay with me) and why it’s a big deal that Detroit may adopt it vox.com/24025379/detro…

New on DSS Commissioner Molly Park's letter saying Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani won't be implementing New York City Council's CityFHEPS expansion bills One voucher holder said, "I know that I cannot pick and choose which laws I adhere to," and asked why it's different for Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani citylimits.org/2024/01/05/ada…

🎙️Only day's left to register for Housing Solutions Lab + Local Housing Solutions's next Data Talks session: Learning About Rental Properties on Jan. 11. Furman Center Faculty Director Ingrid Gould Ellen will host a chat with Allison Pretto, Project Manager at City of Oakland. Register here➡️ buff.ly/3t7qfwd

New housing often costs $500,000 to $600,000 per unit to finance and build, setting a floor on future rents. That's a big reason why building our way out of the housing crisis is so hard via The Boston Globe's Catherine Carlock Tim Logan buff.ly/3vsIYDj

It’s incredibly heartbreaking to learn what happened today inside the Washington Bureau of the The Wall Street Journal. My former colleagues are some of the best in the business and I so greatly respect and admire their work. Here to support you anyway I can 💔

US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge is addressing a gap in Black homeownership amid a jump in homelessness. 🎧 Listen to the Secretary discuss how she is focusing on housing through a racial equity lens via Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes buff.ly/3OFcDQa

Inflation is really being driven by rent and services now. Let me highlight a few: Auto insurance: 20.6% -->Largest increase since 1976 Nonprescription drugs: 9.2%-->Largest ever Repair of household items: 18.2% -->Largest ever Sport events: 13.5%

NEW City Limits: The U.S. Supreme Court has *denied* cert in two outstanding challenges to rent stabilization in NY: supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…

In April, the US Supreme Court will hear a case that could reshape how cities manage homelessness. The legal issue is whether they can fine or arrest people for sleeping outside if there's no shelter available via NPR's Jennifer Ludden buff.ly/48pI20f

From our Gothamist-WNYC 🎙 analysis of NYC’s income-restricted housing construction/financing: • 4 units built or financed in Northeast Queens’ Council District 19 since Jan 1, 2022 • 3 units in Staten Island’s CD 50 (Mid-Island) • 1,447 in South Bronx CD 17 w/ Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky

Roughly 11,200 apartments at Manhattan’s Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village complex will remain permanently rent-stabilized after the landlord dropped its attempts to overturn a landmark court ruling on Saturday. Read more: bit.ly/42Vj5bz

Journalists at the WSJ's office in New York have plastered EIC Emma Tucker's office with sticky notes protesting job cuts:

He’s an incredible and generous journalist. I was honored I got to learn from him while contributing to the The Wall Street Journal’s inauguration coverage of then-President Donald Trump in 2016. He brought so much experience and care to the newsroom.