Mayor Bill DeBlasio and Assemblyman Steve Cymbrowitz recently sat down for lunch with three senior citizens at Midwood’s Mirage Diner to discuss the Mayor’s proposed “mansion tax,” which seeks to create more funding for affordable housing for seniors by taxing the...
The New York City Rent Guidelines Board voted this week for a zero percent increase on one-year lease renewals for rent-stabilized apartments. The vote marks the second straight year the board approved a rent freeze for one-year lease renewals. The board also approved an increase of...
The Assembly’s one-house budget proposal includes a multiyear $150 million plan for a new affordable housing program for seniors that could help offset the devastating loss of federal funding for any new Section 202 program developments, Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz,...