The legislation would allow the construction of single-room occupancy apartments as small as 100 square feet in NYC for the ...

There is a push to revive single-room occupancy housing, where kitchens and bathrooms are shared among apartments as small as ...

Council member Erik Bottcher introduced a bill that would legalize new single-room apartment construction in the city.

As New Yorkers debate Zohran Mamdani’s proposed rent freeze, developers are finding workarounds for affordable housing rules.

Thoughtful refinement is possible. But these bills — broadly written, overly permissive and moving too fast — would take the ...

Landlords argue that rent caps on vacant units prevent them from financing the costs of legally mandated renovations.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has proposed a rent freeze and the construction of 200,000 units of subsidized ...

Small-property owners are suing New York, city and state, in federal court, aiming to get tens of thousands of their “zombie” apartments back on the market.

New York City’s renters have been shaping local politics since the rent strikes of the early 1900s. A new museum exhibit illustrates some of the early struggles. By Eliza Shapiro The winter of 1917 ...

New York City offers a stark example of the problems created by rent control. The city’s framework, which allows tenants unilaterally to bequeath their rent-controlled apartments, has gutted landlords ...

The penthouse was originally the New York Life Insurance headquarters. Before it hit the market in April for $19.25 million, ...