Here’s how Trump transferred wealth to his son while avoiding the usual taxes
This story was co-published with ProPublica In April 2016, as Donald Trump was on the cusp of clinching the...
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If you’ve ridden the New York City subway lately, chances are you’ve seen posters promising relief from the city’s soaring housing costs. Featuring smiling...
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In October 2015, Scherrie and Langston Donaldson received a cryptic notice from their landlord, labeled “preferential rent credit removal.”...
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This story was co-published with ProPublica. In 2014, an obscure campaign in the foothills west of Albany between a...
Cuomo said he’d return 50K apartments to rent regulation — he didn’t come close
A push by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to return 50,000 apartments to the city’s stock of rent-regulated housing has fallen far short of...
The fateful vote that made New York City rents so high
At the end of a pedestrian tunnel, down a flight of Stairs From Street level, a plush bar with...
De Blasio says “enough is enough”: Landlords getting big tax break must cap rent hikes
In his sharpest critique yet of scofflaw landlords, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday it’s “outrageous” that thousands of New York City property...
NYC lawmakers push for audits of landlords who pocket $1.4B tax break
New York City’s biggest housing subsidy may finally get more scrutiny just as state lawmakers are about to consider...
Thousands of NYC landlords who ignored rent caps got tax breaks they didn’t qualify for
When Olga Ortiz found a large, sunny apartment on a tree-lined street in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood several years ago, she felt like she’d won...
NY isn’t telling tenants they may be protected from big rent hikes through J-51 program
In February of 2015, Lilian Piedra received a letter with devastating news: Her landlord was jacking up the rent...