How one New Yorker is trying to buy her affordable housing dream

… up In the interest of putting my money where my mouth is Im applying to a bunch of MitchellLama buildings across the … and started circling the buildings that Id be interested in applying to about a dozen in total And then I got on the …

By Virginia K. Smith |July 26, 2016 - 1:15PM
Can I keep my huge Mitchell Lama rental if the rest of my family moves out?

… procedure by which remaining family members can take over apartments explains Dean Roberts a coop and condo attorney with Norris McLaughlin Marcus If you were to be granted … a Mitchell Lama building with my brother his wife and their baby will I be able to stay in the large apartment in the …

By Virginia K. Smith |May 16, 2016 - 2:59PM
I finally got off the wait list for a Mitchell-Lama apartment, and now the building's going private. What can I do?

… for help in navigating their own real estate crises In  Realty Bites we try to get them answers … THE CONUNDRUM … After … keeping apartments off the market in hopes of selling or renting them out at a higher price once the place goes …

By Virginia K. Smith |September 2, 2015 - 9:59AM
'Green' your building to up its market value, bunk up in a Brooklyn art gallery, and more

… Woodside with an Oct 31 deadline Brownstoner Queens previously Adding green space to your building and how it ups … as a nightlight  and  knows how to call your emergency contacts Apartment Therapy Apply for a $1000 grant to spruce … up for our  weekly newsletter follow us on  Twitter and like us on  Facebook … Buy … Sales Market …

By Virginia K. Smith |October 22, 2014 - 10:59AM
As transient renters move in, one Tribeca photog snaps portraits of her long-time neighbors

… Susan Rosenberg Jones is one of the few tenants who still lives in the Independence Plaza a trio of identical brick … of the Tribeca skyline since the 1970s Originally built for middleincome families under the MitchellLama affordable … Related Squeezing a family into 450 square feet inspired a Brooklyn photogs voyeuristic portrait series Im a subsidized …

By Julie Inzanti |August 28, 2014 - 9:59AM