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With a 2019 state law calling for a zero carbon economy by 2040, and a long way to go...

This new development will bring 49 affordable housing new units to Buffalo

State lawmakers have extended protection from evictions for another three months.  But that is a double-edged sword, because it puts landlords in a tough spot as well. It is now more than a year that tenants have been legally protected from being put on the street. Get our free mobile app State lawmakers have approved parallel packages for tenants and landlords. The moratorium on evictions to protect renters, includes a measure to protect landlords from foreclosure. The elephant in the room is what happens when those protections go away? No one realistically wants tenants on the street, but ...

Credit Thomas O'Neil-White With the ambition of having the state lead the world in green energy use, Kennedy said the work must start at the local level: “New York State has put itself in a lead role on the national level as well as on an international level,” he said. “So now, it is our job and our obligation to put in place initiatives and requirements across the state so that we meet those goals that are so lofty here in New York so that we become the environmental leader in our nation that we all expect ourselves to become with the passage of the CLCPA.”

WNY Landlords Paying The Price For COVID-19 Relief Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures in New York. While providing relief for tenants has meant landlords have been severely hampered trying to collect rent and many times affecting them paying their own mortgages. WIVB-TV reports Western New York too has been operating under that statewide pause order since last year, closing courts to evictions against tenants and at the same time bank foreclosures against local landlords. That moratorium, under state law, remains in effect until May ...