Erik Engquist

The measures I wrote about prevent improvements to property, which does make housing cheaper in a given building. It's housing affordability based on crappiness, but it works in the short term. Just like Wonder Bread fills your stomach for less money than a steak salad.

Pembrook CEO Stuart Boesky says his firm and other affordable housing lenders are pulling back drastically from New York City.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s housing plan is called “Block by Block,” not “Block by Block, Except for Elizabeth Street.”

With rents frozen and expenses rising relentlessly, some landlords look to Article XI to save them, but for most it’s a mirage.

Industry group supports Certificate of No Harassment bill, wins tweaks The real estate investors I talk to about Certificates of No Harassment universally detest the program.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani nominated the pro-housing Mangin to chair the Board of Standards and Appeals. The BSA is an important body for the real estate industry and recently gained more authority over land use — at the City Council's expense.

Building 700,000 homes is the recommendation of yet another report on the housing crisis. But this draft the City Council cannot dismiss as the self-serving fantasy of an industry group or business-backed think tank.

You already know the tax was shoehorned into the state budget in mid April, two weeks after the budget was due, with no public vetting. Then the city rushed to implement it in a hopeless attempt to collect $500 million in 10 months.

DHCR had sat on former governor's application for two years Good things come to those who sue. That's the lesson from former Gov.

Albanian immigrant ushered in era of 99-unit projects Andrea Gjini's claim to fame is bittersweet: By his telling, he developed the first 99-unit, 485x project.