A community board in Western Queens is calling on the city to live up to its promise to its residents, both housed and unhoused, to provide safe and consistent shelter to all in the district.
Read MoreKew Gardens Hills is split on a new mixed-use building potentially coming to the neighborhood.
Elected officials, tenants and advocates rallied in Manhattan Wednesday and made the call to court officials to ease Housing Court caseloads as legal service providers struggle to meet needs under the expanded Right to Counsel laws.
With the end of pandemic eviction moratoriums, the court ramping up caseloads to get back on track and Right to Counsel expanded citywide, legal service providers say they are hard pressed to meet demands — to the point where they are turning away tenants.
A proposed temporary housing facility in Flushing is again facing questions this week after a Queens councilmember asked the city about alternative housing options at the site.
Mayor Eric Adams stopped by Jamaica to announce a partnership with Habitat for Humanity and city agencies aimed at transforming a number of neglected properties into 16 green homes that will be sold as affordable housing.
Read MoreDevelopers of a massive redevelopment project in Astoria gearing up for the city’s rezoning process hit a potentially project-killing snag Wednesday.
Read MoreA group of more than a dozen Arverne by the Sea homeowners are under investigation for illegally renting out their homes while collecting approximately $1 million in tax exemptions, the Department of Investigation said this week.
Read MoreDawn White has lived in her rented Rosedale home with her family for two decades. After an ownership change, she now faces eviction proceedings. A new bill could change that, White and advocates say.
Read MoreThere were 2,500 non-payment cases resolved by the housing authority in Queens, according to NYCHA.
Read More“This has been a consistent issue.”
Read More“We all of a sudden found out that this shelter will be going into our Downtown area and we have been very anxious to know what happened.”
Read More“We are sounding the alarm today in the face of what could be an avalanche of evictions to crash over tenants in this city on a scale that we’ve never seen.”
Read More“The federal government has the resources, and now it is time for them to take action.”
Read MoreThroughout the five boroughs, there are believed to be around 224,000 housing court cases backlogged, according to an Office of Court Administration spokesperson who noted that they believe that to be an overcount.
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