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An App Called Slack Can Organize Board Conversations

by an elected board of directors, these housing corporations are like mini-cities with their own bylaws

Trump to Pocket $14 Million If Feds Approve Sale of Starrett City

vision of the complex as stable, quality affordable housing.” ... Largest subsidized housing development in nation selling for $850 million.

A Co-op Wages a Legal Battle Straight Out of a Dickens Novel

Kew Gardens Hills, Queens

. “It’s actually worse than Bleak House,” says attorney James Samson, referring to the Charles Dickens

The Incredible Shrinking Mitchell-Lama Program

Coney Island, Brooklyn

and the early 1980s. In a city starving for affordable housing, demand continues to outstrip supply: middle ... Trump Village, where residents opted out of the affordable Mitchell-Lama program (image via Google ... Defections like Trump Village add to scarcity of affordable housing. ... As more residents in Mitchell-Lama buildings opt to go to market-rate sales, the city's affordable-housing

Crazy House Rules Sometimes Make a Lot of Sense

Woodside, Queens

At a co-op in Woodside, Queens, the house rules include a prohibition against locks with keys ... Crazy House Rules Sometimes Make a Lot of Sense

Reskinning an Albatross

Lenox Hill, Manhattan

some convincing. “Our first reaction was that we wouldn’t be able to afford to reskin,” says Adler

Hurricane Harvey Proves Americans Have Short Memories

Far Rockaway, Queens

Management Agency (FEMA), which helped pay for temporary housing, emergency home repairs, uninsured

Disciplining an Amorous Super

Kensington, Brooklyn

Estate column in the New York Times replies that this amorous super’s behavior may be considered housing

Not Intrinsically Evil UNABRIDGED

Magazine Article by Tom Soter on August 25, 2017

.” Berkey adds that corporations and housing cooperatives are different. “A corporate board is trying

A Change of Mind UNABRIDGED

Magazine Article by Richard Siegler & Dale Degenshein on August 21, 2017

– and then changes its mind? As Moltisanti v. East River Housing Corporation demonstrates, it all depends on how ... Moltisanti v. East River Housing Corporation

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