The DSA’s rent control utopia is a housing market apocalypse

Mamdani’s rent freeze leaves half of New Yorkers out in the cold

In New York City, a rent freeze doesn’t stop the housing crisis — it just shifts costs onto someone else. Roughly half of the city’s rental apartments are rent-stabilized, giving the Rent Guidelines Board enormous influence over the housing market. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made that power a political priority, pouring 54 []

Plan Change 120 targets the wrong suburbs to create affordable housing - Helen Clark

Plan Change 120 targets the wrong suburbs to create affordable housing - Helen Clark

STEVE FORBES: Mamdani’s socialist rent-control puts New York on the road to housing ruin

New York City rent freeze on 1 million rent-stabilized apartments is price control, not housing policy. It will reduce supply and hurt tenants.

NY Dirt: Mamdani touts largest transfer of assistance project

The Bronx is about to get an affordable housing infusion. The neighborhood of Morrisania is slated to get 229 affordable homes for seniors, with 80 units reserved for NYCHA residents at Morris Houses, at a development dubbed Sol on Park. The Mamdani administration announced Wednesday it had closed on the project, which will be built on the same site as the Morris Houses, with plans to develop the 214 million project in partnership with New York City Housing Authority, the Housing Development Corporation and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Developers NRP Group, Selfhelp Realty Group and Foxy Management []This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.

Money, mansions, and the IPO ripple effect

From soaring home prices to philanthropy and unexpected industries, the AI wealth wave is already transforming the city

Person Thought They’d Found The Perfect Neighborhood Until Their New Neighbors Moved In

Nobody wants to live next door to people like this... The post Person Thought They’d Found The Perfect Neighborhood Until Their New Neighbors Moved In appeared first on TwistedSifter.

Two postcodes six miles apart that expose the hidden housing crisis

From derelict mansions on Billionaires’ Row to boarded-up flats on the Aylesbury Estate, England's empty homes span the entire economic spectrum – what it will take for Andy Burnham to fix it

Lynn Ruane: When eviction becomes part of Ireland's housing policy, everyone loses

Housing insecurity spreads harm through communities like an epidemic. In the midst of record homelessness, policies should prioritise keeping people in their homes.

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.

NYC Closes on $214M Financing for 228-Unit Affordable Bronx Senior Housing Project

More affordable senior housing is coming to the Bronx. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday morning the financial closing for Sol on Park, a 214 million, 228-unit affordable senior housing development project coming to the Morris Houses campus in the Bronx’s Claremont Village neighborhood. To be built at 3728 Park Avenue, Sol on []

New York City’s Rent Freeze: Who Benefits, and What’s Next?

Mayor Mamdani’s rent freeze will bring relief to many, but it doesn’t disrupt a housing system built on profit and tenant exploitation. We need to organize for a socialist housing solution. The post New York City’s Rent Freeze: Who Benefits, and What’s Next? appeared first on Left Voice.

Renovate or Relocate? A Homeowner’s Guide to Choosing What’s Worth It

Every homeowner eventually reaches a point where the house stops fitting the life inside it. Maybe the layout feels tight. Maybe the neighborhood has changed around you. Whatever the trigger, you The post Renovate or Relocate? A Homeowner’s Guide to Choosing What’s Worth It appeared first on Better Living.

Bought your new home before selling the old one? Here’s what it could mean for your tax bill.

It’s a situation many homeowners in Spain find themselves in. You’ve found the perfect new place, but your current home []

“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.

पूर्वाधार विकासमा अग्रसर व्यास

दमौली (तनहुँ) । व्यास नगरपालिकाले पूर्वाधार विकासलाई उच्च प्राथमिकतामा राख्दै सडक स्तरोन्नति, ढल व्यवस्थापन, विद्युतीकरण, सिँचाइ तथा नदी नियन्त्रणका कार्यक्रम अघि सारेको छ। नगरप्रमुख वैकुण्ठ न्यौपानेले नगरभित्रका सडकलाई वर्षभरि नै सञ्चालनयोग्य बनाउने तथा योजनाबद्ध रूपमा स्तरोन्नति गर्ने नीति लिइएको जानकारी दिए । उनका अनुसार नगरभित्रका सडकको लगत कट्टा गर्दै आवश्यक सडकलाई स्तरोन्नति गरिनेछ। दीर्घकालीन योजना, []

‘Affordability crisis’: How the Western housing crisis spiralled

Rising rents and prices outpacing wages provoke global debate: Is housing a basic right or an investment asset?

NYC’s market-rate tenants will foot the bill for Mamdani’s ‘rent freeze’

New Yorkers living in the city’s 1.1 million market-rate apartments are about to get stuck with the bill for the city’s rent freeze, according to the only member of New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board who is an economist and voted “no” on the freeze. Arpit Gupta, who was appointed to the board by former []...Click to read more

Housing Was Built for a World We No Longer Live In

Housing Was Built for a World We No Longer Live In

Apex bookstore facing 64% rent hike to close, other shops face uncertain future

A perfect storm of challenges in downtown Apex has business owners considering closing. Their landlords are raising rent, passing on an increase in new city taxes and rising insurance rates. An ongoing downtown construction project causing sales losses is expected to extend through next year.

‘HMOs are a state-financed cash machine for investors’

Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City tells the story of The post ‘HMOs are a state-financed cash machine for investors’ appeared first on LabourList.

Newton Emerson: Banned in Dublin, booming in Manchester: is co-living the answer for Belfast?

Would ‘student blocks for grown-ups’ offer a fix for city centre depopulation, or just create the yuppie slums of the future?

America’s housing was built for a world we no longer live in

America’s housing supply was built for a world we no longer live in. But what will replace it? As the nation turns 250, that is one of the most important questions we face in the coming decades. Building enough homes, of the right kind, and in the right places is a prerequisite for economic opportunity []

KB Home Q2 Review: Muted Housing Market Unlikely To Recover Soon

KB Home Q2 Review: Muted Housing Market Unlikely To Recover Soon

Thrive unveils plans for West Side housing to serve LGBTQ+ youth facing homelessness

San Antonio-based housing nonprofit Thrive wants to reverse an alarming trend. The organization will open a new neighborhood-style community, Thrive Vecindad, to provide 25 LGBTQ+ youth facing homelessness with a safe and affordable place to stay. Billed as a first-of-its-kind initiative, the project comes at a critical time for LGBTQ+ youth in San Antonio. “Far [] The post Thrive unveils plans for West Side housing to serve LGBTQ+ youth facing homelessness appeared first on San Antonio Current.

When falling housing prices are good news — and when they're not

Denver renters are celebrating falling housing costs. But sometimes cheaper housing is a sign of economic decline. How can you tell the difference?

Mamdani Is Socializing Housing in NYC, Costing Taxpayers Billions

Mamdani Is Socializing Housing in NYC, Costing Taxpayers Billions

New York City Has Tried Rent Freezes Before. Here's How They Ended.

New York City Has Tried Rent Freezes Before. Here's How They Ended.

India's mid-income housing volumes increased by 8% q-o-q and 16% y-o-y: Report

According to the report, Tier-I cities saw a 4 q-o-q and 1 y-o-y growth in housing absorption volume in Q4 of FY 2026, driven mainly by mid-income and luxury segments

Reaction to Columbus' weirdest housing density

Density, density, and more housing density, is what Columbus needs, and if against it, you are an awful NIMBY (Not In My Backyard). So says Mayor Ginther, City Council and the group Neighbors For More Neighbors because they claim Central Ohio is in the throes of a housing supply crisis and building more density will result in greater affordability.

Up Late: Why housing policy means we’re all about to become poorer

As worries grow that Australian real estate could be in free fall, Ben Harvey skewers the absurd logic that housing can become more affordable without the price of homes dropping substantially.

Chicago's Older Apartments Are Running Out Of Room To Raise Rent

Class-C apartment operators in Chicago are buoyed by many of the tailwinds bolstering the city’s multifamily market as a whole: limited new supply, rising rent growth and recovering investor interest. But rising operating costs have squeezed margins...

Commentary: Chicago and other cities are turning budgets into tools for democracy – Chicago Tribune*

Chicago offers one of the clearest examples. In 2020, community groups and residents in historically underinvested neighborhoods put forth the “People’s Budget Chicago” — articulating a clear demand for more public investment in health, education and housing and less in policing. While the people didn’t win their budget, the city did start bringing equity considerations into budgeting.