Furman Center in the News

Date Title Source
02/14/20 A Luxury Apartment Rises in a Poor Neighborhood. What Happens Next? New York Times
03/20/20 New York’s Millennial Homeowners and Where to Find Them New York Times
12/11/20 Midtown Is Reeling. Should Its Offices Become Apartments? New York Times
12/28/20 New York Will Ban Most Evictions as Tenants Struggle to Pay Rent New York Times
04/27/21 Federal Aid to Renters Moves Slowly, Leaving Many at Risk New York Times
05/26/21 Low-Income Renters Who Fell Behind Face Staggering Debts New York Times
06/14/21 New York Has a Housing Crisis. How Would the Mayoral Candidates Fix It? New York Times
07/12/21 Covid Didn’t Kill Cities. Why Was That Prophecy So Alluring? New York Times
07/25/21 New York Has $2.7 Billion for Rent Relief. Many Have Yet to Receive Aid. New York Times
05/05/22 Panel Backs Rent Increases for More Than 2 Million New Yorkers New York Times
12/15/22 N.Y.C. Community Boards Usually Oppose New Housing. Not This One. New York Times
05/12/23 Once an Evangelist for Airbnbs, She Now Crusades for Affordable Housing New York Times
12/12/23 New York Wants to Pay Landlords to Fix and Rent Single-Room Apartments New York Times
12/28/11 Opinion: NY Must Keep Helping Homeowners (PDF, 39 KB) Newsday
04/07/15 NYC Housing Focus Needs to Help Homeless, Too, Advocates Say Newsday
10/19/16 In Obsessing About New York and San Francisco, We’re Ignoring the Real Rental crisis Newsday
08/23/15 Tracing New York City’s Affordable Housing Problem Newsweek
07/23/14 New York’s Storm-Proofing Could Make Apartments More Expensive Next City
02/09/15 More Than 1 in 4 Rent-Burdened in These 7 U.S. Cities Next City
03/27/15 Developers and Cities Are Navigating the Affordable Housing Sea in a Leaky Boat Next City
08/07/15 Business Improvement Districts Are More Than Just a Name on a Trash Can Next City
05/15/17 Housing Tax Credit Investigation Highlights Profit Amid Poverty Next City
07/07/17 Arts Education for All Runs Into Rising Brooklyn Rents Next City
07/14/17 Philly Proposal Looks Ahead to Less Affordable Future Next City
10/24/17 First Citywide Community Land Trust Announced for NYC Next City
01/26/16 New York Wants to Close Gap Between Housing Residents and Wall Street Bankers NextCity
05/10/16 Defining NYC Gentrification Through the Cost of Rent NextCity
02/27/18 New York Advocates see a Place for 21st-Century SROs NextCity
08/27/19 When Anti-Displacement Means Segregation NextCity
04/26/23 These Lawsuits Could Turn the Tide on Section 8 Discrimination NextCity
01/04/13 Rental assistance recipients in Bergen and Passaic counties live near worst schools, report finds (PDF, 358 KB) NJ.com
08/04/21 Undoing Structural Racism: The Need for Systemic Change in Housing Policy Nonprofit Quarterly
12/03/09 Bronxites Want Action on Foreclosure Crisis (PDF, 45 KB) Norwood News
01/20/10 Mayor Bloomberg Falls Short on 2009 Goals, Ready to Try Again with State of the City Address on Tap (PDF, 176 KB) NY Daily News
03/06/13 Low-income renters in Brooklyn hit harder by Sandy than any other city neighborhood, new report show (PDF, 1 MB) NY Daily News
10/13/15 The Effects of Neighborhood Change on NYCHA Residents NY Daily News
08/14/16 Building the next New York: The city must create more housing to have a bright future. Here’s how. NY Daily News
10/01/20 To Revive NYC, Reinvent the Zoning Code NY Daily News
12/09/20 Don’t flush this opportunity: A revived Queens waterfront instead of a fetid mess NY Daily News
12/06/09 The Williamsburg Elixir (PDF, 64 KB) NY Magazine
03/29/10 E. Flatbush is Rail Far (PDF, 29 KB) NY Post
01/26/16 Community Gardens Imperiled by New York’s Affordable Housing Plans NY Times
01/26/16 To Own or Lease? NY Times
10/28/08 New Report Finds Blacks, Latinos Hit Hard by Mortgage Crisis (PDF, 37 KB) NY1
03/04/08 Governor Proposes New Foreclosure Legislation (PDF, 38 KB) NY1
10/15/07 Study Finds Black New Yorkers More Likely to Get Subprime Loan NY1
01/15/09 Tenants Face Evictions Amidst Foreclosure Crisis (PDF, 31 KB) NY1
06/09/09 Seminar Offers Advice For Tenants Of Foreclosed Homes NY1
02/22/10 Bloomberg Shifts Affordable Housing Focus (PDF, 39 KB) NY1
04/13/11 Small Percentage Of NYers Bike To Work, Study Finds (PDF, 36 KB) NY1
03/23/21 Eviction Moratoriums: A Lifeline For Thousands Of New Yorkers NY1
05/13/15 Developing NYCHA Land Has Benefits, But They Drop Off in Less Affluent Neighborhoods Observer
06/15/15 On the Market: Rent Regs Expire Today; Brooklyn Bridge Park Construction Can Resume Observer
05/10/16 On the Market: In Gentrifying Areas, Middle Class Is Most In Danger of Displacement Observer
06/13/16 Williamsburg Unbound Observer
09/19/13 Segregation May Be Less of a Problem, But It’s Still a Problem Pacific Standard
07/09/19 Is Landmarking a Tool of Gentrification or a Bulwark Against It? Pacific Standard
06/17/21 City Of Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Joins Six Midsize Cities In National Effort To Advance Opportunity An Patch
04/25/22 Rising Construction Costs Stall Affordable Housing Projects Pew
01/04/13 Study shows federal housing program helps lowest income tenants (PDF, 123 KB) Phys.org
12/15/08 Education Suffers in NY Projects Planetizen
02/20/09 Education Suffers in NY Projects (PDF, 112 KB) Planetizen
07/21/15 Airbnb and Affordable Housing, Part 2 Planetizen
02/13/11 Parking Minimums Make Housing More Expensive (PDF, 10 KB) Planetzin
10/22/13 The Rent in NYC is Too Damn High, and the City Desperately Needs Solutions Policy Mic
07/29/16 Analysis: Tax lien properties concentrated in central and eastern Brooklyn and southeast Queens Politico
05/24/18 NYU Report Describes City in Housing Affordability Crisis Politico
10/03/19 Cause of poverty decline in NYC fuzzier than de Blasio claims Politico
04/01/20 AOC Urges Cuomo to Support Rent Forgiveness Politico
02/23/21 Mayoral candidates’ big plans for homelessness will be tough to see through Politico
02/22/22 Hochul drops controversial proposals to boost housing POLITICO
07/16/22 New York tried to make apartments affordable. The opposite happened. POLITICO
02/13/23 NYC neighborhoods fell short of Hochul’s growth targets Politico
11/30/16 City Council Approves Four New Housing Projects With Varying Levels Of Affordability Politico New York
06/07/17 Report Finds ‘Distressing’ Trend on Poverty Concentration in New York City Politico Pro
09/25/15 Claim About Atlanta’s Affordable Housing Hits the Mark Politifact.com
01/09/20 How Wealthy Towns Keep People With Housing Vouchers Out ProPublica
01/16/24 These researchers will look at how RI could create a state housing developer Providence Journal
03/29/22 Why California succeeded—and New York failed—at turning hotels into affordable housing Quartz
04/17/08 Jamaica Woman Struggles for Home (PDF, 157 KB) Queens Chronicle
08/23/13 Making room for affordable housing Queens Chronicle
02/12/09 The Faces of Foreclosure (PDF, 96 KB) Queens Courier
02/19/21 NY lawmakers urge tenants to complete ‘hardship’ paperwork to delay eviction Queens Daily Eagle
12/24/08 Board 1 Opposes Urban Pathways’ Building Queens Gazette
11/30/09 Following New York’s Foreclosure Frenzy (PDF, 85 KB) Real Deal
06/21/10 A Housing Price Collapse in Queens New York is Almost Certain (PDF, 122 KB) Real Estate Channel
03/06/13 Low-Income Renters Impacted by Hurricane Sandy in Greatest Need of Assistance Suggests New Reports Real Estate Rama
05/31/13 Report: Number of New Residential Building Permits in NYC at Peak since 2008 Real Estate Rama
04/15/11 Rent regulation battle moves to State Senate Real Estate Weekly
01/23/13 Who’s who? New Report Finds Rental Owners Don’t Register (PDF, 1 MB) Real Estate Weekly
06/05/13 Report: NYC Building permits at highest since 2008 (PDF, 1 MB) Real Estate Weekly
08/08/13 Report: More New Yorkers are struggling to pay the rent (PDF, 2 MB) Real Estate Weekly
08/30/13 Average New Yorkers Being Priced Out of Manhattan Real Estate Weekly
06/03/15 It’s time to make room for a million more New Yorkers Real Estate Weekly
06/17/15 Report asks, could a tax benefit keep rents down? Real Estate Weekly
12/03/15 Brace for Impact of 421-a Statute, MIH and Issues of Subsidies Real Estate Weekly
01/04/16 Why New York Must Build Its Way To An Even Brighter Future Real Estate Weekly
01/27/16 Itʼs a daunting task, but REBNY is committed to affordable home building Real Estate Weekly
03/01/13 Report: Foreclosures Linked to Rising Crime Levels (PDF, 594 KB) RealityBiz News
08/12/20 As the Pandemic Empties Office Buildings, Can Those Spaces Help Solve the Housing Crisis? Realtor