City Budget Held Up Hold Over Housing Voucher Expansion
Speaker Julie Menin cancelled a budget handshake with Mayor Zohran Mamdani Friday after the two sides couldn’t agree on funding an expansion of the city’s housing voucher program, CityFHEPS.
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NYC budget: City Council Speaker Menin says budget deal with Mamdani ‘stuck’ over funding for CityFHEPS rental assistance program
City Council Speaker Julie Menin and a growing number of her fellow legislators said Friday they will not pass a new NYC budget unless Mayor Zohran Mamdani allocates more money for the city’s rental assistance program,…
Opinion: Pride Began With Housing. New York City Should Honor That Legacy.
"Homelessness is not inevitable. When young people receive the right support at the right time, housing crises can be prevented."
Healthcare Revelations in the Enacted Budget Financial Plan
The state financial plan published on June 10 disclosed key information about healthcare revenue and spending that lawmakers had not....
Brooklyn Waterfront Towers Rezoning Advances, and What Else Happened This Week in Housing
Councilmember Lincoln Restler opposed the Monitor Point project, which will build over 1,000 apartments on an MTA lot in Greenpoint, until just before it came to a vote, citing an increase in the percentage of…
PHOTOS: Scenes From The Rent Guidelines Board’s Historic Vote
The board took the unprecedented step of freezing rents on both one- and two-year lease renewals, fulfilling one of new Mayor Zohran Mamdani's key campaign promises.
Mamdani Gets His Rent Freeze
Tenants erupted into cheers when the motion passed inside a packed Museo del Barrio in East Harlem.
Opinion: The Housing Lottery Promised Stability. Then The Rent Went Up.
"For working-class families, seniors, people with disabilities, and fixed-income New Yorkers, those yearly increases can slowly erode the very stability affordable housing is supposed to provide."
As COPA Makes a Comeback, What Does it Mean for Land to be Communally Owned?
The revised Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, which now has a majority of sponsors in the City Council, aims to strengthen community land trusts and create more opportunities to place land under community control.
Joint Statement from Speaker Julie Menin and Council Member Lincoln Restler on the Vote to Approve Monitor Point Rezoning
CITY HALL, NY – Today, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Council Member Lincoln Restler issued the following statement after the Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises and Committee on Land Use voted to…
NYC Council Land Use Committees Vote to Approve Monitor Point and Dewitt Clinton Park North Projects, Delivering Nearly 2,400 New Units of Housing, including Nearly 950 Affordable Homes
Rezonings will deliver significant community benefits, including new home for Monitor Museum, waterfront connections, and improvements for Hudson River Park and Dewitt Clinton Park CITY HALL, NY – Today, the New York…
A Scarcity of Voters
90% of eligible voters stayed home. The other 10% are reshaping Democratic politics.
Opinion: How NYC Is Helping Student Loan Borrowers Navigate Federal Uncertainty—For Free
Starting July 1, borrowers currently enrolled in the SAVE Plan have 90 days to switch to a different repayment plan.
NYC Council Responds to Administration’s Appeal Seeking to Overturn CityFHEPS Reform Laws
Council urges Court of Appeals to uphold First Department ruling and preserve the Council’s longstanding legislative authority to enact policies that help New Yorkers avoid eviction and homelessness NEW YORK, NY – The…
Hammond Submits CDPAP Testimony to Congress
The Empire Center’s Bill Hammond today submitted written testimony for a congressional hearing on healthcare fraud.
Testimony of Bill Hammond on Medicaid’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program
Testimony of Bill Hammond Senior Fellow, Empire Center for Public Policy Before the U.S.
City to Launch New Call Center for NYCHA Tenants in Need of Repairs
The new "Critical Repair Initiative" will be modeled after the Mold and Leaks Ombudsperson Call Center, which residents say has added an extra layer of accountability and coordination to NYCHA's slow, multi-part repair…
Opinion: NYC Needs a Fully Funded Commission on Human Rights
"Federal civil rights enforcement is becoming less reliable, so local enforcement is even more critical—especially because New York City’s Human Rights Law provides protections that state and federal law do not."
NY Elections, Census and Redistricting Update Week of 6/22/26
This week: Early Voting Law Challenge Proceeds in Federal Court; State Redistricting Commission Meets to Approve Budget; Chairs Comment on New Redistricting Amendment; Wice on New Redistricting Amendment (NY Daily…
Opinion: As NYCHA Turns More Public Housing Over to Private Management, Lessons from the UK
"Many have claimed they can subvert the profit-seeking instincts of the development industry," the author writes.
Today's the Day
Polls are open until 9pm. Here’s who we’re voting for, and why
PODCAST: ¿Cómo ha cambiado el programa DACA en la segunda presidencia de Trump?
Más de 500.000 personas hacen parte del programa y durante los primeros 10 meses del segundo mandato de Trump, los agentes federales de inmigración han detenido a 261 beneficiarios de DACA, o "Dreamers" como también se…
NYC Housing Calendar, June 22-29
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events and public hearings, plus affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
What NY’s Congressional Primary Candidates Have Said About NYCHA
In several Congressional races across the city, candidates’ stances on how best to continue funding, maintaining and improving conditions at the city’s more than 300 public housing developments have become hot-button…
NYC Council to Mark America 250 by Celebrating the Communities That Built New York and the Nation
Series of public events will highlight the people, cultures, and traditions that shaped American identity through the lens of New York City NEW YORK, NY – As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, the New…
Federal Suit Traces Medicaid Fraud to the Top of NYS Government
The Trump administration’s latest salvo against Medicaid fraud takes aim at a different kind of target – two high-ranking New....
Meet Manhattan’s New Director For Tenant Organizing, And What Else Happened This Week in Housing
Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal is hiring a full time organizer to create a borough-wide tenant union, continuing a trend of city government supporting tenant groups.
Abundance on and off the ballot
They may not be on our voter guide, but they’re champions just the same.
34 MTA Workers Made $200K+ In Overtime In 2025
Thirty-four employees of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) received more than $200,000 in overtime payments in 2025, as total annual....
Statement from Speaker Julie Menin and Health Chair Lynn Schulman on Fatal Accident Involving Horse Carriage
NEW YORK, NY – New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Council Member Lynn Schulman, Chair of the Committee on Health, today issued the following statement after the death of a teenager in an accident involving a…