NYTIMES (Hilary Howard) - Housing or Flood Protection? In Brooklyn, Housing Is Winning.
A towering apartment development has been approved for the waterfront, even though some residents would have preferred parkland.
NPR (Stephan Bisaha) - Is it a renter's market? It depends on where you live
About 40% of rentals on Zillow offer move-in deals, like a month of free rent, thanks to a construction boom that created an apartment surplus in some parts of the United States.
NYTIMES (Anna Kodé and Vincent Alban) - Inside the Storage Units of Six New Yorkers
In a city of notoriously small apartments, New Yorkers keep their meaningful mementos and quirky collections elsewhere.
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NYTIMES (Patrick McGeehan) - Thousands of N.Y.C. Doormen Seeking Better Pay Are Set to Vote on Strike
It would be the first walkout by the apartment building workers in more than three decades.
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AXIOS (Sami Sparber) - Where rents are falling (or rising) most
Data: Apartment List ; Map: Axios Visuals A building boom across the South and Mountain West has cooled rents — but that relief could fade as new construction slows. Why it matters: Housing is unaffordable for many. Although the median U.S. rent for new leases is down 1.5% from a year ago, it's still roughly 20% above pre-pandemic levels, at $1,400 a month, per Apartment List. - And a new Harvard report finds a record number of renters are "cost-burdened ," spending more than 30% of their income on rent and utilities. Zoom in: The median rent in Austin, Texas — a building hot spot — was down nearly 6% this February from a year earlier. - It fell roughly 5% in San Antonio, New Orleans and Denver, according to data from Apartment…
NPR (Stephan Bisaha) - America has a housing affordability crisis. Building houses for rent can help
Developers are building more single-family houses for renting. That can lower prices for both renters and buyers.
WASHINGTONPOST (Tim Craig) - New Yorkers describe horrid apartments at Mamdani’s rental rip-off event
Leaks, rodent infestations and faulty smoke alarms are some of the housing conditions residents said they’re hoping Mayor Zohran Mamdani will help improve.
NPR (Eleana Tworek) - From cubicles to kitchens: How empty offices are becoming homes
Many U.S. cities have too many office buildings and not enough homes. Developers are now converting some old offices into apartments and condos, but it's going slowly.