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This Secret Senate Committee Decides Whether Bills Live or Die
June 2, 2024
You haven’t heard of it, and your state senator might not have either. The Working Rules group helps determine the fate of hundreds of bills at the end of each legislative session.
Billionaires’ Row residents fight for their ground lease co-ops
June 2, 2024
Inside the high-powered lobbying campaign against 600% increases
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Protestors walk out of Rent Guidelines Board meeting as millions face rent hikes in NYC
June 2, 2024
Tenants and advocates walked out in protest at a public hearing of the Rent Guidelines Board held at Jamaica Performing Arts Center in Queens on Thursday evening. (Téa Kvetenadze)
The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of the American City
June 2, 2024
The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of the American City
Socialist, anti-car NYC pol Emily Gallagher racks up tickets totaling over $4K, blew through red light
June 2, 2024
Socialist, anti-car NYC pol Emily Gallagher racks up tickets totaling over $4K, blew through red light
Progressives launch campaign to get upstate cities to opt in to ‘good cause’ law
May 19, 2024
The state budget’s “good cause” eviction protections only apply automatically to tenants in New York City, but other cities can choose to opt in to the regulations
Good for Queens DA Melinda Katz as she moves to clobber squatters: More, please!
May 19, 2024
Queens DA Melinda Katz speaks outside the courtroom after the arraignment of Brian Rodriguez, who is accused of squatting in a Queens home without the owner's permission
NYC squatters would be tracked and mapped under new City Council bill that would also criminalize freeloading
May 19, 2024
New York City squatters would be tracked and the properties they take over would be listed in an online database under a new City Council bill that would also criminalize freeloading in the Big Apple.
Opinion: Albany Has Unfinished Business on Housing
May 19, 2024
Tenant organizers rallying at the Capitol building in Albany on March 19, 2024
The Daily Dirt: Is it fair for Greenwich Village to get more housing?
May 19, 2024
Adams administration rebuts preservation group’s density defense