Storage Space in New York Now Costs More Than a Typical American Home
It’s a cellar’s market. New Yorkers are spending more than the price of the average American home — on storage units. Tribeca’s 56 Leonard just sold a 200-square-foot unit for $300,000. That’s $1,500...
View ArticleThey're promising us jetpacks again (and deeper basements)
Floating cities and high rise farms are also predicted to shape Britain’s landscape for future generations, according to some of the country’s leading experts. In new research they outline the future...
View ArticleNew York City initiates basement apartment conversion pilot program
The Basement Apartment Conversion Pilot Program provides eligible low- to middle-income homeowners living in East New York and Cypress Hills, Brooklyn with low or no-interest, or possible forgivable,...
View ArticleThe windowless basement apartments of Queens
In New York, hope sometimes comes at the price of the sun. The city welcomes poor immigrants, but its housing does not. Most rents are far beyond the means of people like Amado, who arrive looking for...
View ArticleIda deaths highlight persistent flooding and housing issues in New York...
As the fallout of Hurricane Ida comes into focus in both the Gulf Coast region and the Atlantic Northeast, one area of chronic concern has become ground zero for planning gaps that are increasingly...
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