Apartments for homeless sit empty, $5 billion for affordable housing, & more

By Emily Myers | April 28, 2022 - 11:00AM

City lawmakers want to know why thousands of apartments set aside for homeless New Yorkers are vacant (New York Post)

Mayor Eric Adams pledges an additional $5 billion towards affordable housing over the next decade in his first State of the City address (The Real Deal via Crains)

Co-op board members vent about the cost of complying with new energy efficiency rules under Local Law 97 (Habitat Magazine)

New York tops a list of most expensive cities for roommates in the U.S., followed by San Francisco and L.A., according to SpareRoom (press release)

An affordable housing lottery launches for 225 apartments at River Crest, a 17-story mixed-use building at 1164 River Ave. in the Bronx (New York YIMBY)

How curb appeal can affect resident morale as well as prices (Cooperator News)

Emily Myers

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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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