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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — A report released Tuesday raised questions about the increase in housing projects subsidized by New York State’s 107 local Industrial Development Agencies. It analyzes the ...

Good intentions tend to carry far more weight than they should in some spheres. Public housing is unquestionably one of them. While the arguments in Howard Husock's The Projects: A New History of ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to ease environmental rules for some developments has been gaining broad support from developers and municipal officials in the Lower Hudson Valley. But some local advocates ...

With soaring rents and increasing home prices, many New Yorkers are struggling to secure and maintain safe affordable housing. Housing insecurity is tied to poorer health outcomes, and those of us ...

America’s era of big public housing projects was a grand experiment whose period of favor was remarkably short-lived. The austere, often high-rise complexes rose across US cities in a few decades, ...

It’s not every day that a democratic socialist has the chance to make a pitch for social housing to the president, but that’s ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has pledged to hold private landlords accountable. But he has said less about how he will fix the crumbling public housing system he now oversees. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons Mayor ...