April 27, 2015
Abusive Non-Rent Fees for Rent Stabilized Tenants
The Urban Justice Center’s Community Development Project has issued a report, The Burden of Fees: How Affordable Housing is Made Unaffordable. The introduction reads, Tenants in New York City’s poorest neighborhoods are under attack. Despite the existence of laws such as … Continue reading
April 27, 2015 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
April 24, 2015
Friday’s Government Reports Roundup
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released its results to the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Guarantee Fee Review. Following the release, the FHFA announced that the fees would remain the same with modest adjustments. HUD released the 2009-2011 National … Continue reading
April 24, 2015 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
April 22, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Keepings, by Donald J. Kochan, NYU Environmental Law Journal (2015) Forthcoming. Low-Income Housing Policy, by Robert A. Collinson, Ingrid Gould Ellen, & Jens Ludwig, NBER Working Paper No. w.21071. Housing Discrimination Among Available Housing Units in 2012: Do Paired Testing … Continue reading
April 22, 2015 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
April 21, 2015
How Can Tech Support Housing Rights?
Here is Linda Raftree’s write up of the Technology Salon Brooklyn event on How Can Tech Support Housing Rights in Brooklyn? The salon co-hosted the event with the Brooklyn Community Foundation (BCF) and AfroLatin@ Project. The salon attendees explored the issue of tenant rights within the wider context … Continue reading
April 21, 2015 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
April 14, 2015
Reiss at TechSalon on Tenant Rights
I will be the lead discussant at a Technology Salon Brooklyn event on Thursday morning: How Are ICTs and Social Media Supporting Tenant Rights? The invitation reads, Gentrification is top of mind of many Brooklynites, as they are pushed out of … Continue reading
April 14, 2015 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
April 6, 2015
Housing and Transportation Affordability Index
The Center for Neighborhood Technology has a Housing and Transportation Affordability Index which provides a more comprehensive way of thinking about the true affordability of place. It presents housing and transportation data as maps, charts and statistics for 917 metropolitan … Continue reading
April 6, 2015 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
April 2, 2015
Housing Affordability for Moderate-Income Households
The Center for Housing Policy’s most recent issue of Housing Landscape gives its Annual Look at The Housing Affordability Challenges of America’s Working Households. The Center finds that Overall, 15.2 percent of all U.S. households (17.6 million households) were severely housing cost … Continue reading
April 2, 2015 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
