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1601 DeKalb Avenue in Bushwick will feature 127 units of affordable housing for both low and moderate income levels

The Manchester property is 100% affordable, and the company is doing deferred maintenance as well as environmental upgrades.

A report predicts that the future is hybrid and will lay waste to urban office and retail corridors. But inflation is down and sales are up!

Construction workers gathered in the future lobby of the Beach Channel Drive apartment complex for a traditional topping-off ceremony in Far Rockaway, the

NYC has financed thousands of rental apartments. But can it build a new generation of affordable co-ops in an era of rising interest rates?

An alternative to the expired 421-a program that works for developers and the city is needed, says Rick Gropper, a principal at Camber Property Group

Leaders in city government, real estate and recruitment are among those making headlines this week

The City Council voted Thursday to beef up enforcement of self-closing doors in apartment buildings and outlaw space heaters that don’t feature an automatic shutoff setting — measures directly inspired by a catastrophic fire in the Bronx that killed 17 people earlier this year.

Nearly four months after a fire tore through a Bronx complex, killing 17 people, its residents say that the city has yet to disburse millions in aid.

In early 2022, building fires at publicly-funded properties in the Bronx and Philadelphia claimed 29 lives. The facts and conditions surrounding the fires expose an ongoing failure by officials to provide and maintain a safe standard of housing for some of Americas most vulnerable. However, the...