For all of Sunset Park’s celebrated taquerias, dim sum parlors and picturesque piers, the most popular destination in that neighborhood might just be the local branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Despite its squat concrete frame and fluorescent...
With the city’s homelessness crisis unabated, housing advocates are asking why most of the units created or preserved under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s affordable housing plan fail to target the city’s low-income New Yorkers who need help the most.
Billionaire developer Stephen Ross and the New York-based Ford Foundation are teaming up with The Platform LLC to make a $27.5 million investment in bringing housing to Detroit neighborhoods.
Members and supporters of the New York Communities for Change (NYCC) held a three-day tent city sit-in and demonstration march to call attention to the color divide on Long Island, specifically in Garden City.
New York developer Jonathan F.P. Rose, founder and president of Jonathan Rose Cos. has raised a $233 million real-estate fund dedicated to affordable housing, the company’s largest such fund in a sector drawing more attention from investors.
In response to historic criticism that shelters had opened overnight with little community oversight, the de Blasio administration has pledged to increase transparency into the process.
Homeless and runaway youth would be able to stay longer in the city’s crisis shelters under new legislation that will be introduced in the City Council Thursday.
After hearing from “thousands of community voices” on the redevelopment of the Bedford-Union Armory in Crown Heights, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams released his recommendations for the embattled project.