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(Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)The Flatbush Tenant Coalition [https://flatbushtenantcoalition.wordpress.com], a group of more than 55 active tenant associations, hosted its third annual open-forum for political candidates and community members to discuss the neighborhood’s critical challenges: rapid gentrification, escalating rents, predatory equity corporations, and criminal justice
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535 Carlton (Courtesy COOKFOX)Starting tomorrow, 298 below-market units at 535 Carlton will become available via affordable housing lottery at NYC Housing Connect [https://a806-housingconnect.nyc.gov/nyclottery/lottery.html#current-projects]. The all-affordable 18-story building (535 Carlton Avenue between Dean Street and Pacific Street) is being developed by Greenland Forest
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(Rendering courtesy Dattner Architects)A planned 97,000-square foot affordable housing complex, bordering Prospect Lefferts Gardens and East Flatbush, is now accepting lottery applications for 110 units starting at $822 per month. The CAMBA Housing Ventures [https://www.cambahousingventures.org] Garden Phase II, at 560 Winthrop Street between Kingston Avenue
Central Brooklyn
(Rendering courtesy Dattner Architects)A planned 97,000-square foot affordable housing complex, bordering Prospect Lefferts Gardens and East Flatbush, is now accepting lottery applications for 110 units starting at $822 per month. The CAMBA Housing Ventures [https://www.cambahousingventures.org] Garden Phase II, at 560 Winthrop Street between Kingston Avenue
Bensonhurst
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanFor the second consecutive year, the Rent Guidelines Board voted last night to approve a rent freeze on one-year leases for over one million tenants in rent stabilized housing. The news was bittersweet for local tenants rights advocates, who were fighting for more this year — a rent-rollback.
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Public Advocate James took center stage (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Michael Randazzo)When a contentious meeting Monday night at the Ingersoll Community Center about a proposed building with 145 affordable apartments for seniors — including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) — threatened to devolve into chaos,
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461 Dean Street (Courtesy BerlinRosen.)The ever-changing skyline [/?s=pacific+park]could get even taller if a new bill [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2015/s5469/amendment/original]in Albany passes. Senate bill S5469 [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2015/a7807/amendment/original] and Assembly bill A7807 [https:
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461 Dean Street (Courtesy BerlinRosen.)The ever-changing skyline [/?s=pacific+park]could get even taller if a new bill [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2015/s5469/amendment/original]in Albany passes. Senate bill S5469 [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2015/a7807/amendment/original] and Assembly bill A7807 [https:
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A rendering of 550 Vanderbilt.As Pacific Park [/?s=pacific+park] rises amidst questions about the changing character [/blog/2016/04/26/gentrification-dominates-cumbos-state-district-speech/]of the neighborhood, it’s the role of minority and women-owned business enterprises (MWBE) in the construction process that may surprise some. 550 Vanderbilt [http://550vanderbilt.com]
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(Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Do you have a rent-stabilized lease? Are you concerned about a rent increase? Testimony from the public is now being accepted regarding the proposed rent increase guidelines for rent stabilized apartments, lofts, and hotel units with leases renewing between October 1, 2016 and September 3,
Bensonhurst
Flatbush Tenant Coalition march for tenants rights in December, 2014. (Photo: Ditmas Park Corner)Do you have a rent-stabilized lease? Your rent is about to get a little less stable. Testimony from the public is now being accepted regarding the proposed rent increase guidelines for rent stabilized apartments, lofts, and
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The meeting in session. (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox)“What do you call affordable?” asked Ingersoll Residents Association President Darold Burgess [/?s=darold+burgess] in reference to the developments rising around the Ingersoll Houses and the proposed affordable housing set-asides. The Ingersoll Residents Association Meeting was last night at