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  1. housing
    The ‘Airbnb Alternative’ Black MarketNew York’s Airbnb crackdown has driven hosts and visitors back to Craigslist and neighborhood listserves.
    By Kim Velsey
  2. get out of town
    A Moody $399,000 Cottage in Phoenicia and an Updated Colonial Near HudsonPlus a mid-century charmer with a footbridge.
    By Curbed Staff
  3. airbnb
    Upstate Buyers Are Too Rich for Airbnb NowPeople making all-cash offers don’t need the extra income, and they don’t like to share.
    By Kim Velsey
  4. housing
    Rent Stabilization Isn’t Going to the Supreme Court This TimeThe justices declined to hear a case against rent regulation brought by New York landlord groups. But there will be others.
    By Clio Chang
  5. the business of brokering
    I Didn’t Know My Broker Was a BotRenters hoping to meet Brook E. and Emily O. at that Greenpoint open house will be sorely disappointed.
    By Clio Chang
  6. developing
    Eric Adams’s Big Housing Plan Is 100 Small Ideas in a TrenchcoatA lot of them are good. But can he push them through neighborhood resistance?
    By Christopher Bonanos
  7. please be advised
    Ask an Airbnb Host If You Can Rent Their ApartmentWith a little convincing, that soon-to-be de-listed garden unit could be yours.
    By Clio Chang
  8. housing
    Airbnb Hosts Are Feeling AbandonedAs the city prepares to crack down on short-term rentals, the hosts say the company is out of its depth.
    By Molly Osberg
  9. housing
    The Menace of the MegamansionBuyers who are turning multiunit buildings into single-family palaces have taken away hundreds of thousands of housing units.
    By Kim Velsey
  10. long island
    A Basement Housing Bill Killed by ConspiracistsHuntington seemed poised to legalize ADUs. Then things got weird.
    By Molly Osberg
  11. right to shelter
    ‘We Can’t Sleep Because of the Worry’Overnight at the Roosevelt Hotel, where hundreds of migrants are still waiting for somewhere to go.
    By Luis Feliz Leon
  12. housing
    Airbnb Wants to Fix Loneliness With Gwyneth PaltrowAnd zoning.
    By Clio Chang
  13. developing
    An Island of Affordable Housing at the World Trade CenterA third of the tower’s residents will have cheap rent and expensive neighbors.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  14. housing
    Where’s a Summer Intern Supposed to Live?Thousands of students join the city’s workforce each June. Finding an apartment is its own hazing ritual.
    By Margaret Dunn
  15. housing
    Can New York City Even Enforce Its Airbnb Rules?Staffing shortages under Mayor Adams are making implementation difficult, according to city councilmembers.
    By Clio Chang
  16. wildfires
    California Is Becoming UninsurableState Farm has put a moratorium on new home-insurance customers in the state. It’s a sign of what’s to come.
    By Alissa Walker
  17. migrant crisis
    Living 20 to a Room in a Vacant Midtown Office BuildingNewly arrived migrants talk about spending their days in a former Touro College space.
    By Gaby Del Valle
  18. housing
    A Sale and a Suicide on East 12th StreetAfter a private-equity firm bought an East Village apartment complex, one of the tenants jumped. Neighbors say he was right to be paranoid.
    By Bridget Read
  19. the suburbs
    Long Island NIMBYs May Be Winning Housing FightLawmakers fighting for the “right to a suburban quality of life” could weaken Hochul’s density plan.
    By Clio Chang
  20. the real estate
    Compass Gets Upstate CuriousThe mega-brokerage poached the team behind every black house on the market in Catskill.
    By Clio Chang
  21. encounter
    Paul Schrader’s Very Paul Schrader Days in Assisted LivingThe screenwriter recently moved into the Coterie to stay close to his wife. He’s never been busier.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  22. housing
    Your Landlord Might Be a BabyParents are buying investment properties for their infants.
    By Molly Osberg
  23. boring news
    Elon Musk Is Building a NeighborhoodProject Amazing is the company town reimagined!
    By Alissa Walker
  24. the housing market
    Manhattan Rents Went Up Instead of DownThe January median reached $4,097.
    By Clio Chang
  25. scene report
    Partying With the New YIMBYs on the BlockThe data bros, jaded brokers, and occasional lefty ready to build, baby, build.
    By Bridget Read
  26. upzoning
    Not in Steph Curry’s BackyardAnother famous resident of Atherton, California — the country’s wealthiest Zip Code — has some concerns about multifamily zoning.
    By Alissa Walker
  27. housing
    The NYCHA Chair Position Is Likely Getting a $255,000 Pay CutGood-bye, inflated salary, and good luck with all the repairs and back rent.
    By Clio Chang
  28. the housing market
    New Yorkers Never Came ‘Flooding Back.’ Why Did Rents Go Up So Much?Getting to the bottom of a COVID-era real estate mystery.
    By Lane Brown
  29. street view
    Two Supportive-Housing Projects Make the Case for Building Many MoreThey’re cheaper than the alternatives, acceptable to the neighbors, and successful among people who were living on the street.
    By Justin Davidson
  30. street fights
    ‘We Were Called Gentrifiers, and We Were Called NIMBYs’Councilmember Julie Won on how the largest private affordable-housing development in Queens history was won.
    By Bridget Read
  31. migrant crisis
    Eric Adams Closes His Big Tent on Randall’s IslandMigrants are moving to hotels, which is what many advocates asked for in the first place.
    By Clio Chang
  32. space
    We’re Getting Closer to a Martian Housing MarketNine subterranean caves have been identified as potentially suitable habitats, if you’re into that kind of thing.
    By Clio Chang
  33. crime
    The Bees of WrathRorie Woods knew foreclosure all too well. And when her friend was evicted, she rushed over with a venomous posse.
    By James D. Walsh
  34. migrant crisis
    The Randalls Island Migrant Shelter Is Looking a Lot Less Temporary“There is no limit to how long people that are seeking asylum can stay in this facility.”
    By Clio Chang
  35. street fights
    13 Years, 3 Mayors, Countless Community Board Meetings, and Just One BuildingThe tortured saga of turning a Hell’s Kitchen parking lot into 112 affordable apartment units.
    By Bridget Read
  36. curbed glossary
    The Helicopter Landlord Lives DownstairsAnd wonders if the guy who was over last night is your new boyfriend or just a friend.
    By Clio Chang
  37. housing
    ‘I Don’t Think Anyone Should Buy Land in Any Metaverse Right Now’Chatting with Jessica Stocker, Winter House’s skeptical virtual real-estate agent.
    By Bridget Read
  38. the housing market
    New York City’s Rent and Wage-Growth Gap Hits Record HighWe’ve hit another miserable milestone.
    By Clio Chang
  39. celebrities
    Grimes Is a YIMBYShe says she needed Elon Musk to help her buy a house in Austin.
    By Clio Chang
  40. housing
    Unsurprisingly, Dwell Magazine is Now Selling Its Own Prefab ADUsFor just $389,000.
    By Diana Budds
  41. the city politic
    New York’s Leaders Are Sleeping Through a Housing EmergencyThe political response should reflect the size and speed of the worsening crisis. It hasn’t even come close.
    By Errol Louis
  42. the city politic
    Why Are So Many of New York’s Basement Apartments Still Death Traps?It’s been a year since floodwaters drowned 11 New Yorkers in their homes, but nothing has been done to stop it from happening again.
    By Errol Louis
  43. housing
    Landlords Are Trying to Make ‘Tenantsplaining’ a ThingOur housing providers are having a little fun.
    By Clio Chang
  44. housing
    A Woman in the Bronx Fell Through Her Bathroom FloorA new addition to your list of tenant nightmares.
    By Clio Chang
  45. housing
    To Keep Its Ancient Equipment Going, NYCHA Makes Its Own PartsWith so many obsolete boilers and elevators out there, there’s no other way.
    By Felipe De La Hoz
  46. housing
    Rat Infestation? Leaky Ceiling? Good Luck in CourtTenants say judges are taking too long to order landlord repairs since the pandemic began.
    By Bryce Covert
  47. the housing market
    Manhattan Rents Broke Another RecordAverage rents reached more than $5000 in July.
    By Clio Chang
  48. upstate
    Kingston Becomes the First Upstate City to Adopt Rent ControlThe move will probably set the stage for other cities upstate to follow suit.
    By Clio Chang
  49. housing
    The Regulars Rooting for a Crash at Brooklyn’s Foreclosure AuctionsHope springs eternal for the small-time hustler.
    By Molly Osberg
  50. housing
    Obama Blames Liberal NIMBYs for the Housing Crisis TooAt the American Institute of Architects’ 2022 convention, he criticized “bipartisan resistance” to affordable, mixed-income housing.
    By Diana Budds
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