Under proposed new laws, landlords could be prevented from making big rent increases by combining units—aka "first rent" for stabilized apartments (The Real Deal)
After arsenic is found in the water at a Lower East Side NYCHA complex, a federal monitor orders the preservation of papers related to the discovery (The City)
Bringing New York City's estimated 50,000 basement apartments up to code would cost nearly $14 billion (New York Post)
NYC public advocate Jumaane Williams describes "uninhabitable" conditions at NYCHA complexes in a new report (City Limits)
A NYC architecture firm becomes the first to unionize in an effort to get better pay and conditions (Bloomberg)
A look at the private pools found in luxury condo towers and townhouses (The New York Times)