Apartment  building managers being empowered by new legislation

“It’s a Business”: NYC Landlord Facing $35K  Property Tax for His Buildings Speaks Out Against Zohran Mamdani’s Rent Freeze

NYC Landlord thinks people don't understand that owning apartments is a business. Sign up to receive the Daily Dot’s Internet Insider newsletter for urgent news from the frontline of online. The post “It’s a Business”: NYC Landlord Facing 35K Property Tax for His Buildings Speaks Out Against Zohran Mamdani’s Rent Freeze appeared first on The Daily Dot.

Memo to tenants: Be careful what you wish for

Landlords dream that tenants could spend a day in their shoes, or long enough to realize that ownership is not about sitting on the beach while rent checks roll in. Tenants also dream about owning their buildings. They aim to pass the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, plus a state version called TOPA. What if these wishes came true? For the answer, we turn to Tracey Towers, an 871-unit complex in the Bronx. Because it’s a Mitchell-Lama, rather than rent-stabilized housing, tenants must pay enough rent to maintain their housing. The rent increase will be 30 percent over the next []This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.

Mamdani’s rent freeze math doesn’t work, and he doesn’t care

In what New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani described as a “historic victory” for tenants, New York City housing officials recently approved his rent freeze, which will lock in rents for roughly a million regulated apartments in the Big Apple. Yet, one board member blasted the decision, accusing the board of ignoring its own economic research []

Mayor Proposes Creating Tenant Bill Of Rights, Other Protections For Renters – Block Club Chicago

The proposal would update the city’s landlord-tenant ordinance by standardizing fees and deposits, strengthening tenant rights and creating a Tenant Bill of Rights. It would also create a Bureau of Rental Housing Services within the Department of Housing to process rental complaints, investigate violations and coordinate enforcement.

Calls are growing for maximum heat bylaws in apartments. The question is: who pays?

Calls are growing for maximum heat bylaws in apartments. The question is: who pays?

Rent Guidelines Board grants rent freeze, but landlords warn of housing distress

Rent-stabilized tenants are praising Mayor Zohran Mamdani: Just as promised, tenants living in New York City’s 2.3 million rental units. The post Rent Guidelines Board grants rent freeze, but landlords warn of housing distress appeared first on New York Amsterdam News.

Hong Kong approves first subdivided units meeting basic housing standards

Hong Kong authorities have approved the city’s first three subdivided units to comply with official minimum standards, with the successful applicant urging landlords to seek professional help to avoid wasting time and money. Hayson Chan Hin-hay said the Housing Bureau had approved his three subdivided units in a flat in Sham Shui Po as “basic housing units” last week. Chan, chairman of the Hong Kong Basic Housing Units Operators Association, said he filed the application in late May. Under the...

His Upstairs Neighbors Are Loud at Night and His Polite Notes Have Done Nothing — So He’s Taking It to the Landlord

If you live in an apartment building, you have to be respectful of your neighbors. The post His Upstairs Neighbors Are Loud at Night and His Polite Notes Have Done Nothing — So He’s Taking It to the Landlord appeared first on TwistedSifter.

Mamdani's rent freeze passes for 1 million units

New York City's Rent Guidelines Board on Thursday approved Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D) two-year rent freeze proposal for 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. The 7-1 decision by the independent board, consisting of mayoral appointees, applies to rent-stabilized apartments in buildings constructed before 1974 and buildings with certain tax breaks. The rent freeze goes into effect starting Oct....

$159M affordable housing project in Montreal’s Saint-Michel

Construction is underway on a 159.9-million affordable housing project in Montreal’s Saint-Michel neighbourhood. Federal, provincial and municipal officials joined the Black Communities Housing Society on Friday for a ceremony for the Angélique-Latimer Complex, which will be built on Saint-Michel Boulevard. The project will include 281 housing units, including 230 affordable units designed for families in [] The post 159M affordable housing project in Montreal’s Saint-Michel appeared first on CityNews Montreal.

Major overhaul in apartment ownership law: flats could be split or merged, with faster action on unpaid common-area fees

A new Property Code is being prepared to modernise apartment-building ownership rules, simplify co-owner decisions and speed up the collection of unpaid shared expenses. The post Major overhaul in apartment ownership law: flats could be split or merged, with faster action on unpaid common-area fees appeared first on ProtoThema English.

Le ministre Condé aux nouveaux maires : «les délégations spéciales restent un recours légal en cas de défaillance»

À peine installés dans leurs fonctions, les nouveaux exécutifs communaux sont déjà appelés à faire preuve de rigueur dans la gestion de leurs collectivités. Le ministre de l’Administration du Territoire et de la Décentralisation, Ibrahima Kalil Condé, a rappelé ce samedi 4 juillet 2026 que l’État conserve la possibilité de recourir aux délégations spéciales en []

As New York City’s COPA Program Returns, There’s an Opportunity to Do It Better

New York City’s legislators are again considering the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, premised on the fantasy that government can preserve low-cost housing by giving favored organizations an opportunity to buy available buildings at market prices. COPA would apply only to multifamily rental buildings that have too many violations, participate in a city remedial program, []

Major Building Act reform isn’t weathertight and risks leaving homeowners exposed – Jenée Tibshraeny

Major Building Act reform isn’t weathertight and risks leaving homeowners exposed – Jenée Tibshraeny

The councils ready to buy hundreds of new-build homes for asylum seekers

Multiple local authorities have expressed interest in going ahead with a housing scheme – but have yet to proceed after discussions with the Home Office

Should the city of Berkeley help buy these affordable apartments?

Tenants who have lived at a Sacramento Street apartment complex for decades fear what might happen as their property goes on the market. Mayor Adena Ishii wants to put 1.3 million toward a program that could turn it into permanently affordable housing.

East Palo Alto reduces affordable housing requirements for small projects

The East Palo Alto City Council approved on Tuesday an ordinance that will allow developers to omit low-income housing in projects with 20 units or less, temporarily stunting local affordable housing laws.

‘We have 18 properties between three of us’: Could your landlord be a sex worker?

Adult stars are future-proofing.

'Extremely overwhelmed': apartment renters face rising tide of fees

Tenants at apartment complexes operated by Greystar, the largest owner and manager of apartments in the US, don't just pay rent. They pay a mass of fees that many renters have never heard of before. These add-ons include boiler management fees, variable refrigerant flow fees, solar rebill fees, even lifestyle fees. Tenants and lawsuits in multiple states call many of these fees inflated, illegal, predatory or overwhelming. A fee for this, a fee for that was just crazy to me, Nichole Collins, a former tenant at a Greystar-managed building in Colorado, said. I had never experienced that before....

San Fran mayor tries to derail plan for publicly funded grocery stores

A vote on a San Francisco supervisor’s plan to convert neighborhood corner stores into publicly subsidized markets has been placed on hold. Supervisor Bilal Mahmoud announced the idea late last month and is now accusing Mayor Daniel Lurie of interfering with the Board of Supervisors’ legislative process. “What happened is that the mayor called the []...Click to read more

Tony Walls Workers Party Representative for the Lower Falls has reacted angrily to the Audit Office Report saying the maintenance backlog in Northern Ireland’s health estate has grown to more than £1.6 Billion.

Mr Walls said this is a staggering amount of money and neglect as the report says that 40 of the buildings are not fully compliant with current regulations and need to be upgraded. The health estate has more than 1700 buildings freehold buildings and 200 leasehold that are made up of hospitals, health centres, ambulance stations and fire stations, across 400 sites and the Audit General says many are deteriorating. The report states that the estate is aging and many are not fit for purpose due to age and condition.

'Extremely frustrated' Government struggles to find buyer for Napier flats sitting empty for year

The Housing Minister has told officials to do something about the government-owned block of 30 flats.

New reforms to R-Codes will increase housing supply

Last week, the State Government announced plans for sweeping reforms in relation to the Residential Design Codes (R-Codes) that are aimed at enabling greater housing supply...

ADDIS ABEBA WAITS ON A RENT CEILING

Addis Abeba’s renters and property owners are waiting on a city government decision that will set how far rents can rise under a two-year-old control...

There's a new plan for one-off housing - will it make it easier for locals to build in their area?

The proposals were signed off by cabinet this week.

MoI calls to install security cameras at vital locations

KUWAIT: The interior ministry on Tuesday called on owners of 16 commercial and vital sectors like hotels, malls, hospitals, mosques and others to install cameras and surveillance d...

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