Furman Center in the News

Date Title Source
03/09/22 New York’s First Supertall Tower Outside of Manhattan Rises in Brooklyn The New York Times
03/31/22 Will Ending a Lucrative Tax Break Ease or Fuel the N.Y.C. Housing Crisis? The New York Times
05/25/22 Discrimination Weakens Tool for Reducing N.Y. Homelessness, Lawsuit Says The New York Times
05/26/22 Why a Lucrative Tax Break for Developers Is Likely to Die in Albany The New York Times
06/24/22 Looking for Affordable Housing in New York? Here’s Where To Find It. The New York Times
08/01/22 Why It’s So Hard to Find an Affordable Apartment in New York The New York Times
09/23/22 Taller Towers, Fewer Homes The New York Times
02/14/23 Aggressive New York Housing Plan Borrows Ideas From Other States The New York Times
03/22/23 NIMBYs Threaten a Plan to Build More Suburban Housing The New York Times
03/29/23 Can New York Fix Its Housing Crisis? It Depends on the Suburbs The New York Times
03/03/16 Are Micro-Apartments a Good Solution to the Affordable-Housing Crisis? The New Yorker
09/04/21 Andrew Cuomo Left Behind a Rent-Relief Debacle The New Yorker
09/06/16 Affordable Housing Will Only Work With For-Profit Developers in the Mix The Observer
11/28/18 Rent Control Is Making a Comeback. But Is That a Good Idea? The Pew Charitable Trusts
08/12/13 Minority homebuyers often got risky loans even though they qualified for better mortgages, study say The Plain Dealer
11/01/08 Could the early 1990s return? (PDF, 44 KB) The Real Deal
05/01/08 No Bailout for Brownsville (PDF, 44 KB) The Real Deal
06/01/07 Jamaica tops city in foreclosures (PDF, 43 KB) The Real Deal
09/01/09 Breaking the Co-op Barrier (PDF, 114 KB) The Real Deal
09/01/09 Real Trouble Lies in Rising Default Rates (PDF, 250 KB) The Real Deal
12/11/09 New York Gets Crushed in Year of Record Lows (PDF, 91 KB) The Real Deal
01/01/10 A Manhattan Apartment for the Price of a Car? (PDF, 107 KB) The Real Deal
01/01/10 Bronx Distress Hits Middle-income Areas Hardest (PDF, 85 KB) The Real Deal
01/01/10 Higher-priced Homes Get Turned on Their Heads The Real Deal
02/02/10 Jumping on the REO Wagon (PDF, 91 KB) The Real Deal
03/25/10 Housing Boom Brings 170K New Units to NYC (PDF, 36 KB) The Real Deal
04/01/10 How Credible is Case-Shiller? (PDF, 86 KB) The Real Deal
07/01/10 Like a Broken Record: 100 Years of Busts (PDF, 118 KB) The Real Deal
08/01/10 Purchasing Power Changes Hands (PDF, 312 KB) The Real Deal
08/01/10 Brokers Get Creative to Attract House Hunters The Real Deal
04/12/11 Foreclosed Multi-Family Rentals Plague NYers (PDF, 25 KB) The Real Deal
05/03/11 Where the REOs are The Real Deal
05/19/11 NYC Housing Prices, Foreclosures Decline (PDF, 69 KB) The Real Deal
08/19/11 NYC home sales down 40 percent, new construction returning slowly: report (PDF, 32 KB) The Real Deal
09/01/11 The best of 100 issues (PDF, 1 MB) The Real Deal
09/28/11 Visualizing NYC’s rental market (PDF, 106 KB) The Real Deal
11/02/11 More housing vouchers, more crime? (PDF, 27 KB) The Real Deal
11/28/11 NYC homes sales stay low in third quarter (PDF, 90 KB) The Real Deal
03/28/12 NYC home sales volume down, but so are foreclosures: report (PDF, 66 KB) The Real Deal
09/05/12 N.J. lender stumbles in providing Queens mortgages (PDF, 335 KB) The Real Deal
01/15/13 Most City Landlords Fail to Register Rental Properties (PDF, 300 KB) The Real Deal
01/29/13 Developers, wary of cost and delay, spurn city’s landmark transfers program for air rights (PDF, 595 KB) The Real Deal
05/31/13 NYC Residential Permits Five Times Higher Than Last Year (PDF, 217 KB) The Real Deal
06/19/14 Report sheds light on rent-stabilized tenants The Real Deal
01/15/15 Only 6% of NYC’s Affordable Units Were Built in Manhattan Below 96th St. The Real Deal
02/09/15 Majority of People in Big US Cities Opt to Rent: Report The Real Deal
03/26/15 Density Won’t Spur Developers to Build in Low-Rent Areas The Real Deal
05/19/15 US housing construction reaches post-crisis record The Real Deal
06/11/15 NYU’s Furman Center Floats New Tax Abatement for Affordable Housing The Real Deal
03/07/16 Is micro-living really the answer? The Real Deal
08/05/16 As prices soar, NYC homeowners saddled with housing costs The Real Deal
12/12/16 New NYU Data Tool Shows Affordable Housing Throughout NYC The Real Deal
02/09/17 New 421a program will be boon to developers… unless construction costs really balloon The Real Deal
03/15/17 Building Permits Up to Start the Year - But the Data Warrants a Closer Look The Real Deal
08/17/17 Is the link between gentrification and displacement actually that strong? The Real Deal
04/05/19 Mayor Taps Vicki Been as New Housing Czar The Real Deal
03/30/20 Could NY’s Work From Home Moment Fuel Office-to-Residential Conversions? The Real Deal
12/11/20 Lawmakers Mull Action on Evictions as Rent Relief Expansion Stalls The Real Deal
08/23/21 Why affordable apartments are so hard to build The Real Deal
09/30/21 Voucher recipients less likely to be vulnerable to eviction, study finds The Real Deal
10/11/21 Hotel conversions race against the clock The Real Deal
12/10/21 New York takes aim at apartment bans The Real Deal
06/15/22 Dead and buried: 421a is gone. Will it ever return? The Real Deal
09/16/22 In Socialists We Trust: Tiffany Cabán and the Great Housing Breakthrough The Real Deal
11/21/22 Will Innovation QNS happen without 421a? The Real Deal
03/01/23 Council, Adams administration clash on office-to-resi affordability The Real Deal
03/21/23 Incentives won’t make dent in housing crisis, groups say The Real Deal
04/06/23 Voucher holders sue city as landlords, tenants go unpaid The Real Deal
10/15/15 How much does Airbnb impact rents in NYC? The Real Deal NY
11/10/15 De Blasio’s 421a Reforms Would Help Developers: Report The Real Deal NY
11/23/15 Meet 421a’s real beneficiaries: Landowners The Real Deal NY
01/19/16 Developocalyse: The Day After The Real Deal NY
03/10/16 Landmarked districts as dense as non-historic areas: report The Real Deal NY
05/09/16 City sees record year for inclusionary housing units, residential permit approvals The Real Deal NY
05/23/16 VIDEO: The top 5 most gentrified neighborhoods in NYC The Real Deal NY
12/21/16 NYU Data Tool Highlights Lack of Affordable Housing The Real Deal NY
12/22/16 The Week in Real Estate Market Reports The Real Deal NY
01/28/14 What are you doing here? New York ranks No. 1 for most people departing The Syracuse Post Standard
01/16/24 Seattle’s Housing Construction Booms While Permitting Flashes Warning Signs The Urbanist
05/28/08 Mixed Use (PDF, 224 KB) The Villager
04/15/09 Ranking the Village (PDF, 44 KB) The Villager
12/15/08 Fannie Mae to End Tenant Evictions in Foreclosures The Wall Street Journal
06/10/10 Higher Ground (PDF, 148 KB) The Wall Street Journal
09/04/10 Bedford-Stuyvesant: Buyers Have Upper Hand (PDF, 200 KB) The Wall Street Journal
11/13/10 City Slowdown in Mortgages Hits Home (PDF, 45 KB) The Wall Street Journal
02/26/11 Home Prices Fall, Foreclosures Ease (PDF, 98 KB) The Wall Street Journal
04/13/11 More Landlords Not Paying Up (PDF, 87 KB) The Wall Street Journal
04/25/11 Tenants Turn to Lenders to Repair Buildings (PDF, 61 KB) The Wall Street Journal
09/08/11 Database Tracks Affordable Units (PDF, 87 KB) The Wall Street Journal
11/28/11 Pact’s Benefits in Limbo (PDF, 147 KB) The Wall Street Journal
01/21/12 Home-Crisis Program Gets A Late Start (PDF, 126 KB) The Wall Street Journal
02/22/12 Homeowners Roll Up Sleeves to Trim Costs (PDF, 91 KB) The Wall Street Journal
03/20/12 Early Checks Help Multifamily Units (PDF, 106 KB) The Wall Street Journal
10/17/13 To Bolster Revenue, Landmarks Look Up The Wall Street Journal
04/30/14 Costs Threaten New York City Mayor’s Rent Plan The Wall Street Journal
07/29/15 Construction in New York City Goes Through The Roof The Wall Street Journal
08/16/15 Rents Rise Faster for Midtier Apartments Than Luxury Ones The Wall Street Journal
03/09/16 More and More People are Renting. Thank the Suburbs The Wall Street Journal
03/28/16 Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Affordable Housing Plan Faces Roadblocks The Wall Street Journal
10/12/17 New York Landlords Have to Work Harder to Profit From Airbnb The Wall Street Journal