#housing-policy

#housing-policy

He's taking an extreme left-wing position which looks like state capitalism,

Director Dan Garodnick informed Mayor Zohran Mamdani that he would be stepping down from the role "in the coming weeks," according to an email shared with staff earlier this morning, City Limits first reported. Under Gardonick, the agency passed the first major citywide rezoning since 1961-"City of Yes"-an effort to create more housing in every neighborhood amid a citywide housing shortage that has pushed rents higher.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday defended his pick to lead the city's revitalized Office to Protect Tenants after past social media posts resurfaced in which the appointee criticized homeownership and called for reducing white middle-class wealth. It comes after another of Mamdani's appointees, Catherine Almonte Da Costa, resigned after old social media posts surfaced that contained antisemitic statements and criticism of the NYPD.

Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as 'wealth building' public policy,

Where I live in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, we saw this cycle where landlords and bankers and policymakers had driven up the value of real estate using speculative financial capital, the housing market crashed, and then the solution to that was just a different private equity firm coming in and owning the buildings," Weaver, 37, said in a Dissent magazine interview published last winter. "This cycle fueled waves of gentrification in Crown Heights.

Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City on Thursday, taking over one of the most unrelenting jobs in American politics with a promise to transform government on behalf of the city's striving, struggling working class.

For many people in Catalonia, the housing market no longer feels like a place to find a home - it feels like a battlefield. Rising rents, limited supply and investor-driven buying have pushed housing anxiety to the forefront of daily life. Now, the Catalan government says it wants to push back. The regional executive is preparing a new law aimed at curbing speculative property purchases, using taxation rather than outright bans.

"It's so poignant, so important not just for the Asian community but for all people in San Francisco to know hat hate and discrimination like that doesn't have a place in the city," said Lee's daughter, Tania Lee.

"New York City, long positioned at the forefront of housing innovation, is falling behind," the author writes. "The most effective innovations happen when residents are treated as partners with authority and vision." Across the U.S. and around the world, everyday people-tenants, workers, organizers-are transforming the future of housing in their cities and catalyzing positive change. New York City, long positioned at the forefront of housing innovation, is falling behind.

The fascists are here. They're invading our cities, crashing our economy and stealing our futures to sell them to the first bidder,

In a one-hour session, the mayor-elect, his Chief of Staff Elle Bisgaard Church, and First Deputy Mayor-designate Dean Fuleihan met with Mayor Adams to discuss the transition between the administrations. The Mayor-elect met with the sitting Mayor to continue the work of the transition, and ensure all city services are provided without disruption through the change in leadership on Jan. 1, Monica Klein, spokesperson for the Mamdani Transition, said in a statement.

Montano is a retired schoolteacher who has long been a figure in Milpitas public office. She served for eight years as a school board trustee for Milpitas Unified School District starting in 2000, before being elected to city council in 2012, where she served for two non-consecutive terms. In 2022, Montano made history when she became the first woman to be elected mayor of Milpitas, and in 2024 was re-elected in a close race with a crowded field of four candidates.

Young people leaving care in England face a sharper increase in homelessness compared to the population more broadly, latest figures show. It comes after warnings the youngest care leavers face a "devastating care cliff", which sees them losing support when they turn 18 and leave care, as well as difficulties with joblessness. Children's Commissioner for England Rachel De Souza told the BBC she was concerned the government were not providing care leavers with adequate long-term support.

I think for housing to continue growing successfully, it has to be led by our towns, it has to be led by our first selectmen, it has to be led by our mayors, Lamont said at a news conference. I just don't think it works if it's us against them. After months of negotiations, the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and Council of Small Towns backed the new bill alongside the governor.

The intent is noble most mortgage borrowers are indeed locked in by low interest rates from the pandemic, draining liquidity from the housing market and not allowing these borrowers to relocate when they should. The reality is more complicated this one-time fix is very hard to implement, would potentially cost MBS investors hundreds of billions, and could make GSE IPOs unviable. Instead, the FHFA should lay the groundwork for us not to have this conversation next time around.

Chan has a path to victory: She will have support from labor unions around the country, and will be able to raise all the money she needs. She would be the first immigrant and first Asian to represent San Francisco in Congress. As the threat of housing demolitions and small business displacement because of Wiener's legislation hits the Sunset and Richmond, the senator may lose popularity.

The policy, which is co-sponsored by Councilors Mitch Green and Tiffany Koyama Lane, is intended to address a tool that allows large building owners to share private data through software that collectively sets rent prices. Antitrust experts and tenant advocates say the property management software companies-and the landlords that contract with them-are skirting federal price-fixing law by using the algorithmic tool. They say the software enables landlords to essentially collude with one another to keep rents artificially high.