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Nomadland in NYC, unions support good cause bill, & more

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By Emily Myers  |
March 15, 2022 - 10:30AM
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State Senate and Assembly budget bills include more aid to renters and housing vouchers but no 421-a tax break for real estate developers (The Real Deal)

New York’s largest labor unions are pushing for additional tenant protections through the passage of a good cause eviction law (Gothamist)

Nomadland in NYC: Tensions over housing and parking erupt in a graffiti attack on a family's RV in Washington Heights (Patch)

A whopping 84 percent of renters in NYC are rent burdened, spending more than 30 percent of their take-home pay on rent, according to data from listing site Spare Room (press release)

Employers calling workers back to the office are ignoring a major factor—the increasingly expensive housing market (Time)

More than 100 park improvement projects, paused due to the pandemic, will begin this spring (City Land)

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Emily Myers

Senior Writer/Podcast Producer

Emily Myers is a real estate writer and podcast host. As the former host of the Brick Underground podcast, she earned four silver awards from the National Association of Real Estate Editors. Emily studied journalism at the University of the Arts, London, earned an MA Honors degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh and lived for a decade in California.

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