The Right to a Bed: Mamdani Confronts New York’s Deepest Homelessness Crisis – From a deadly cold snap to Rikers reform, the new mayor is testing whether housing-first principles can actually work
Gracie Abrams Quietly Assembles a $12 Million Greenwich Village Compound – Pop star’s third purchase at 1 Fifth Ave reveals a deliberate, historically rich strategy to claim space in one of Manhattan’s most storied buildings
Mayor Mamdani Wins Historic $2.1M Judgment Against Bronx Slumlord – Court orders maximum penalties and emergency repairs at long-neglected South Bronx building
NYC Rental Market Hits Record Decline in Available Homes – As inventory shrinks to historic lows, tenants face mounting pressure in one of the world’s most expensive cities
NYC Council Pushes SAFER Homes Act to Fix Broken Foreclosure Program – A 34-member majority backs legislation to take distressed buildings from neglectful landlords
Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Gambit: A Reshaped Board, a Real Estate Sector on Edge – Six new Rent Guidelines Board appointments signal a historic vote on stabilized rents is coming
Mamdani and the Homeownership Debate: Can a Socialist Mayor Champion Both Tenants and Owners? – The Cea Weaver controversy forces a reckoning over what the administration actually believes about private property
Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Bet: A Board Reshaped, a Market on Edge – Mayor appoints six to Rent Guidelines Board, moving closer to his signature affordability promise
Mamdani Budget Could Eliminate Lifeline for Homeless Youth – A program connecting young New Yorkers to housing and services faces elimination even as youth homelessness climbs
Mamdani Stacks the Rent Board. A Freeze for 2.4 Million New Yorkers May Be Next. – Six new appointments give the mayor a majority ahead of the June vote that could reshape NYC housing
NYCHA Residents Push Back: Community Hearings Challenge Mamdani’s Rental Ripoff Framing – While the mayor holds hearings on private landlords, public housing tenants say their own living conditions demand equal attention
Mamdani Pitches Trump on 12,000-Unit Sunnyside Yards Housing Plan – A century-old dream for a Queens rail yard gets a new pitch at the Oval Office
Mamdani Meets Trump to Push $21 Billion Sunnyside Yards Plan – A socialist mayor and a Republican president find an unlikely housing agenda
Queens Democrats Push Back on Sunnyside Yards Deal Made in Washington – Local leaders say community was bypassed before the Oval Office pitch
New Yorkers Flood Rental Ripoff Hearings With Stories of Broken Homes – The Mamdani administration’s first borough-wide tenant sessions draw hundreds
Wall Street Journal: Mamdani’s Sunnyside Bet Needs Trump to Deliver – A business press perspective on NYC’s biggest housing gamble in decades
Landlords Fire Back at Mamdani’s Tenant Czar Over Race Comments – Immigrant property owners say Cea Weaver’s past words erase their American story
Mamdani Pitches the Biggest Housing Project in 50 Years – A Queens railyard could become a new city, if Trump says yes
Mamdani Brings Sunnyside Yards Dream to Trump’s Desk – A 50-year-old housing vision gets a White House audience
Mamdani Names Pittsburgh Administrator to Lead NYC’s Sprawling Homelessness Agency – Erin Dalton takes the helm of DSS as the city faces near-record shelter populations and deadly cold
Mamdani Pitched Trump on Sunnyside Yards — Gothamist Reports the Details – The Queens housing project could be the biggest federal housing investment in NYC in half a century
Mamdani Names Pittsburgh’s Erin Dalton to Lead NYC’s Massive Social Services Agency – An out-of-state hire brings a 98-percent outdoor homelessness reduction track record to a city in crisis
NYT Opinion: New York’s Homelessness Crisis Demands More Than Good Intentions – With 19 deaths and a policy reversal, Mamdani’s approach to homelessness faces its first real test
Mamdani Pitches Trump on $21 Billion Sunnyside Yards Housing Deal – NYC mayor seeks largest federal housing investment since 1973 — with 12,000 homes and 30,000 union jobs
Industry Groups Seek Wage and Fine Freezes Corporate Coalition Mobilizes Against Reform Agenda As Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani prepares to take office, business coalitions and industry groups are actively lobbying his…
Affordable Housing Crisis Deepens as Mamdani Narrows Rental Voucher Expansion Plans – Mayor backs away from campaign pledge to expand CityFHEPS as program costs exceed 1.2 billion annually and budget crisis deepens
Affordability Crisis Drives Mamdani’s Electoral Strategy – Housing and Childcare Costs Dominate Campaign Message
Mamdani’s Housing Agenda Hits Resistance Amid Slow Permit Approvals – A new report shows that rezoning targets are behind schedule, with City Hall blaming processing delays and legal filings while opponents say the city is overreaching
Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Represents Class Warfare Against Extractive Capital New York City’s landlord class faces an existential threat not because housing policy has shifted, but because the fundamental relationship between…
