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When Bill de Blasio campaigned to be mayor eight years ago, he pledged to fix New York City's property tax system. In May 2018, Mayor de Blasio and Council Speaker Corey Johnson convened the New York City Advisory Commission on Property Tax Reform to recommend reforms to the system to make property taxes more fair, straightforward, and transparent.
Ultimately, the former mayor fell short of his goal to reform the property tax system. With two days left before ...
A new state law that will boost rental subsidies to thousands of struggling New York City families living in shelters or at risk of eviction has been signed into law, taking effect immediately. With the bill's signing, Governor Hochul announced $100 million is available for counties to help homeless individuals and families leave the shelter system for a permanent home by providing rental assistance. The funds may also help very low-income New Yorkers pay their rent...
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) recently announced a major settlement agreement with a Brooklyn-based landlord who has topped the NYC Public Advocate’s Worst Landlord Watchlist two years in a row.
On Nov. 15, the City Planning Commission voted to approve the Permanent Open Restaurants Program zoning text amendment in a special public hearing. The vote was 10-0 with one recusal.
The proposed Permanent Open Restaurants program will transfer the control of sidewalk cafes to the Department of Transportation from the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and aims to create a more streamlined approval process for sidewalk cafes.
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz recently announced that a couple from Jamaica, Queens, have been charged with grand larceny in the third degree, criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree, falsifying business records in the first degree, and offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree.
Owners of buildings over 25,000 square feet – or multiple buildings on a lot that total 100,000 square feet or more – that appear on the NYC Benchmarking Covered Building List for Compliance in 2021 must post the Building Energy Efficiency Rating Label that includes the building’s 2020 energy efficiency grade by Oct. 31. This is required by Local Law 33 of 2018...
New York Attorney General Letitia James recently announced a settlement with a major New York City landlord. The agreement resolves an investigation conducted by the Office of the Attorney General’s (OAG) investigation that found that the company was not in compliance with apartment inspection, lead hazard remediation, and other key requirements of New York City’s ...
Since the Supreme Court blocked the CDC's eviction moratorium on Aug. 26, New York State has achieved the distinction of becoming the first state to sign a new eviction moratorium into law. The Supreme Court had previously limited New York State's tenant protections in the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Act by revoking the section of the bill that allowed renters to submit an affidavit or hardship declaration self-certifying their pandemic-related h...
On Aug. 12, the Supreme Court granted an injunction that immediately suspended the tenant protections in the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Act, an anti-eviction law originally passed on Dec. 28, 2020, and subsequently extended. The act gave renters the opportunity to submit an affidavit or hardship declaration self-certifying the renters' pandemic-related hardship to stop an eviction case from moving forward.
The nationwide eviction moratorium had lapsed on Saturday, July 31. On Tuesday, Aug. 3, the CDC issued a new, more limited freeze that remains in effect for two months, until Oct. 3.
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