Sharing your building with the whole family, how to ditch tired DIYs, and more

Your ideal new building-mates: your extended family? (NYDN)

Overdone DIY tricks, and how to update them (House Beautiful)

Trying to talk the building's staff into going non-union probably won't go over well (NYT)

Just because your apartment is dirt cheap doesn't mean you're not entitled to some repairs (Gothamist)

If you just give your apartment keys to anyone who wants them, is it even a sublet? (The New Yorker)

Depending on your building, the board might have the power to amend bylaws without a vote from the residents (Habitat Magazine) 

Well, this is something: developers might actually start building: (somewhat) less expensive apartments (NYT)

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