The latest trend at City Hall seems to be quitting while you’re ahead. Following an announcement last week that the city hit a 25-year...

Industry City, where the Brooklyn Nets just opened a new training facility, may seem like an ideal spot for a sporting goods shop, but...

Some of city’s top developers and housing officials met at the offices of the Real Estate Board of New York last week to discuss...

The City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development was forced to retract a 40-percent pay hike for low-level employees because of a procedural error....

City officials are feuding over (the lack of) development at more than 1,000 vacant lots owned by the city.

Officials on Wednesday argued in favor of the city’s plan to rezone East New York, saying it will keep locals in the area and...

In an effort to preserve a valuable affordable housing resource, the City Council is proposing to end property taxes for the nearly 1,300 limited-income...

The existing 421a tax benefit program “simply does not produce enough affordable housing to justify its expense,” Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development...

A new affordable housing project in Flushing will go above and beyond with a feng shui-centric design that will include a rooftop farm and...

Trying for a reality check, Vicki Been, the commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, told a conference last week: “This is...

Rent costs are a severe burden for a third of New Yorkers, and the city is at risk of becoming a gated community unless...

It remains unclear what the future holds for the 421a tax abatement program. The program, which provides a tax break for developers but sometimes requires the...

The rapid growth of luxury development and rising land prices in New York City might be a double-edged sword for the administration’s affordable housing plan.

When it comes to affordable housing, New York City shares many challenges with cities like London, Hong Kong and San Francisco.

New York City plans to revise the regulatory process that some affordable housing developers face in a bid to shore up its stock of...

Daniel Hernandez, a former executive at affordable housing-focused development firm Jonathan Rose Companies, was tapped to run a new division of the city’s Department...

Budget cuts to a federal Section 8 rental voucher program have cost it roughly $37 million. Under the $400 million-a-year program, low- and middle-income tenants...

As the de Blasio administration rounds the six-month mark, more than 8,700 units of affordable housing have already been financed.

The New York State Conference of Mayors, a gathering of mayors from across the Empire State, has backed a bill that would create a...

Two of the mayor’s new housing initiatives will likely be ready to be launched in early 2015, according to Vicki Been, commissioner of the...