Furman Center in the News

Date Title Source
07/31/19 Controversial Program Boosts Funding for Scarce Public Housing MPR News
04/19/11 New York City Residential Market Sees Positive Signs, But Multifamily Foreclosures Increased (PDF, 31 KB) Multi-Housing News
02/28/12 NYU Furman Center’s Surprising Data on Subsidized Housing (PDF, 62 KB) Multi-Housing News
01/16/15 Why is Affordable Housing Disappearing in NYC? Multi-Housing News
08/17/15 Apartment Rents Continue Upward Climb Amidst Affordability Concerns Multi-Housing News
03/10/16 Renter Population Growing in Nation’s Largest Metro Areas with Affordable Housing Hard to Find MultifamilyBiz
09/21/21 Why Black homeownership thrives in this special pocket of New York City National Geographic
10/25/12 NYU Furman Center Releases Policy Brief on LIHTC Program Tenants (PDF, 249 KB) National Housing Institute News
08/20/13 Extreme Weather Hurts Low-Income People Most National Journal
10/23/15 Airbnb’s Lessons For Affordable Housing National Journal
10/29/20 Small loans are a pain point amid the pandemic: NY Fed panel National Mortgage News
09/29/15 Demand Grows for Inclusionary Housing Development National Real Estate Investor
04/22/10 Bloomberg’s PlaNYC Not So Green, Critics Say (PDF, 69 KB) NBC
10/28/08 Study: Fewer Mortgages to Latinos, Blacks (PDF, 54 KB) NBC New York
05/06/20 Who Are the New COVID-19 Hospitalizations in New York? The Breakdown Is Worrisome NBC New York
06/21/21 Are homes infrastructure? Biden’s proposal says better housing policy will improve access… NBC News
03/16/23 Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Influences Outcomes After Hospitalizations for Neurologic Conditions NeurologyToday
03/11/09 Foreclosures and Minorities Nevada Public Radio
03/18/11 Losing Home—Immigrant Families’ Path Through Foreclosure and Beyond (PDF, 64 KB) New America Media
04/01/13 Learning from Hurricane Sandy and pooling funds for the next catastrophe (PDF, 292 KB) New Jersey Star-Ledger
06/08/14 Manhattan Population Growing Despite Ever-Increasing Rents New York 1
11/06/08 Mortgages Plunge by 50% in Some Brooklyn Minority Communities (PDF, 22 KB) New York Daily News
11/04/08 Evictions Soar as Banks Foreclose on Landlords During Credit Crisis (PDF, 27 KB) New York Daily News
10/28/08 Minorities Hit Hard in Mortgage Crunch (PDF, 19 KB) New York Daily News
04/15/08 City Foreclosures Threaten Renters (PDF, 22 KB) New York Daily News
10/16/07 FDNY union may put pension cash into affordable apartments (PDF, 30 KB) New York Daily News
02/19/07 Renting Rooms, Buying a Dream (PDF, 754 KB) New York Daily News
01/19/09 Fed Up & Fighting Foreclosure Angry Group Protests Home Auction (PDF, 23 KB) New York Daily News
02/01/09 A Foreclosure Freeze Would Ease Their Fears (PDF, 28 KB) New York Daily News
03/24/09 Buyforeclosedhomes.com? Online Auctions Are Catching On (PDF, 27 KB) New York Daily News
02/07/10 City Slow to Recover from Housing Market Collapse; Buys Just 8 Homes Out of Promised 115 (PDF, 430 KB) New York Daily News
03/01/11 Brooklyn Pol Wants to Put Banks on the Hook for Maintaining New York Homes They Foreclose on (PDF, 101 KB) New York Daily News
07/19/11 Foreclosures on Apartment Buildings Surge Reducing Living Conditions for Tenants (PDF, 116 KB) New York Daily News
11/29/11 Queens Home Sales & Property Values Keep Sliding at Faster Rate than Rest of City (PDF, 52 KB) New York Daily News
03/29/12 Manhattan foreclosures up 11% in last part of 2011 (PDF, 152 KB) New York Daily News
05/02/12 NYC taxes hit large rental buildings hardest (PDF, 197 KB) New York Daily News
07/09/13 Harlem townhouse is a record-breaker at $4M as gentrification speeds up. (PDF, 1 MB) New York Daily News
07/29/13 Nearly one third of New Yorkers are “severely burdened” by housing costs: study (PDF, 830 KB) New York Daily News
09/22/13 Barclays at 1: Taking the next step New York Daily News
03/17/14 Central Harlem residents line up at food pantry just steps from upscale restaurants, food shops New York Daily News
11/20/14 Korean War Vet Walter McClary Moving On Up - Into Coveted Affordable Apartment New York Daily News
01/15/15 Only 6% of Affordable Apartments Built Since 2000 Have Been in Manhattan Below 96th St. New York Daily News
07/20/15 Time to End a Huge Tax Break for Wealthy Property Owners New York Daily News
07/23/15 The North Shore of NYC’s Forgotten Borough Slated to Become a Brooklyn-style Boom Town New York Daily News
04/01/16 Habitat for Humanity Came to Bedford-Stuyvesant And Many Longtime Residents Got Pushed Out New York Daily News
11/06/16 Housing Activists Push to Stop New York Pols from Reviving Tax Break for Building Developers New York Daily News
01/23/17 Homeownership: NYC’s Missing Affordable Housing Foundation New York Daily News
11/15/17 Another way the House tax bill hurts ordinary Americans: Devastating the affordable housing market New York Daily News
05/30/19 Solving Segregation, One School at a Time New York Daily News
05/29/19 When NYC neighborhoods grow whiter, public schools don’t always follow suit: report New York Daily News
11/23/20 Put housing first in the next COVID relief package New York Daily News
08/02/22 NYC is Desperate to House the Homeless. A Bitter Fight in the Bronx Over Housing People Leaving Rikers Shows Why That’s So Hard New York Daily News
03/20/23 Lawmakers Aren’t Sure Their Own Plan to Build More Housing Will Work New York Focus
03/25/11 Foreclosure Prevention Funds Still Necessary (PDF, 12 KB) New York Law Journal
02/28/14 Tenants Allege Racial Bias in City Property Tax System New York Law Journal
09/16/07 Neighborhood Watch (PDF, 337 KB) New York Magazine
03/30/09 Bad News Up North: In a Season of Shrinking Sales Volume, Harlem’s Been Hit Extra-Hard (PDF, 190 KB) New York Magazine
04/27/09 How to Pick a Neighborhood (PDF, 204 KB) New York Magazine
09/27/09 The Micro-Economy of Union Square (PDF, 224 KB) New York Magazine
04/11/10 The Most Livable Neighborhoods in New York New York Magazine
04/03/11 New York’s Next Big Neighborhoods, “Flushingstone” (PDF, 106 KB) New York Magazine
11/22/12 How One Brooklyn Building Shows a Possible Solution for the City’s Homeless Problem (PDF, 594 KB) New York Magazine
01/20/13 What’s a Hearth Worth? (PDF, 202 KB) New York Magazine
05/28/13 You Still Can’t Afford a House, Probably New York Magazine
07/12/13 Map Shows What Each Neighborhood of New York City Complains About the Most New York Magazine
10/02/13 Manhattan Real-Estate Market As Insane As Ever New York Magazine
02/02/14 Is Gentrification All Bad? New York Magazine
01/28/15 The Red Host Rubble of East New York New York Magazine
02/16/12 NYU Furman Center & Moth Honored by MacArthur Foundation (PDF, 297 KB) New York Nonprofit Press
09/23/08 Tougher Times Hobble Mayor’s Affordable Housing Ambitions (PDF, 316 KB) New York Observer
04/24/07 Mayor’s Green Speech Asks to Build 500,000 Units (PDF, 290 KB) New York Observer
11/19/09 Study: Subprime Loans Went to Minority-Heavy Neighborhoods (PDF, 21 KB) New York Observer
01/14/10 Number of Bank-Owned Homes in New York Rising (PDF, 158 KB) New York Observer
04/23/12 Renters Relieved! Life Returns to Normal After Supreme Court Turns Down Harmon Case (PDF, 339 KB) New York Observer
06/14/12 The Tax Man Cometh for Your Condo (PDF, 255 KB) New York Observer
02/27/13 New York City Foreclosures Linked to Crime (PDF, 2 MB) New York Observer
03/29/13 Drumbeat to Downzone Bushwick Continues, Despite Skepticism on Affordable Housing (PDF, 1 MB) New York Observer
06/18/13 Alms for the Upper Middle Class: Subsidized Apartments Aim at $200K Earners (PDF, 1 MB) New York Observer
07/25/13 New York City Co-ops Still Scandalously Undertaxed, Furman Center Finds (PDF, 1 MB) New York Observer
08/16/13 Return of Rent Control: Brad Lander and Candidates Push for Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (PDF, 868 KB) New York Observer
10/23/13 No Sky Zone: Residents of 57th Street Rage Against Extell’s High Rise Row, ‘Gluttonous’ Buildings New York Observer
04/30/14 Sky High: Times Square Marriot Sets Theater District Record With Big Air Rights Buy New York Observer
06/18/14 Who Lives in Rent-Regulated Housing? New York Observer
07/28/14 Affordable Multi-family Housing Faces Financial Hurdles in Doing Resiliency Retrofits New York Observer
08/15/14 The Housing Being Built in New York Doesn’t Meet the Needs of New Yorkers New York Observer
09/18/14 Manhattan Historic Districts See Meager Relative Value Appreciation, Report Finds New York Observer
10/30/14 Micro Cosmopolitan: The Promise of Tiny Apartments in a City Where Size Is Everything New York Observer
12/10/14 Mayor’s Mandate: Experts Fear Affordable Upzoning Plan Will Fall Short New York Observer
01/14/15 Affordable Housing More Frequently Preserved in Less Desirable Neighborhoods New York Observer
01/20/15 Gentrification May Be Complicated, But It’s Not a Myth and Neither is Displacement New York Observer
11/10/15 Union Labor Likely to Curtail 421-A Development in Less Affluent Areas, Study Finds New York Observer
06/12/08 Not ‘Fore’ Us (PDF, 96 KB) New York Post
05/22/08 Death By ‘Preservation’ (PDF, 106 KB) New York Post
09/12/07 Guests in Own Homes’s: NYC’s Low Owner Rate. (PDF, 204 KB) New York Post
08/22/07 N.Y. Foreclosure Frenzy (PDF, 80 KB) New York Post
06/18/07 NYC ‘Debt’ Reckoning (PDF, 101 KB) New York Post
04/12/07 Sub-Prime Loan Bubble in City (PDF, 145 KB) New York Post
03/12/09 Long and Short of Gotham (PDF, 61 KB) New York Post
04/13/11 City Bike Numbers Unwheel (PDF, 256 KB) New York Post
03/07/13 Rent and the single girl (PDF, 108 KB) New York Post