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A handful of Long Island landlords are joining a bigger protest in Manhattan Monday morning to express their anger at the handling of a rent assistance program that they say has harmed them financially. The landlords will demonstrate outside the New York office of Gov. Read More …
A bipartisan group of officials in Suffolk County denounced a plan Thursday to require all New York State municipalities to permit accessory dwelling units. The requirement is listed in the proposed state budget. Local, state, county and federal leaders gathered at the Suffolk County Legislature Read More …
If you want to know where someone’s real values lie, look at what they do, not what they say. This past Thursday the Huntington Town Board found time on their calendar to fret over the concerns of horse owners with $2 million homes, but could Read More …
Veterans can now apply for spots at the Columbia Terrace condo complex in Huntington Station. Columbia Terrace is a 14-unit affordable condo complex with a veterans preference made up of 8 two-bedroom units and 6 one-bedroom units. The application process will end Nov. 30 and Read More …
“LI HOME PRICES GO UP, UP, UP,” declared the front-page headline in Newsday last week. The article began: “Home prices reached a new high in Suffolk County…The median home price jumped to $535,000 in Suffolk last month…” And that was $10,000 more than what Peter Read More …
For too long in the Town of Huntington, real estate developers and NIMBY’s (Not in My Backyard) have been battling. Read More …
Suffolk County is studying the obstacles to fair housing, with a deadline of April 2. The study, known as the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice, is required by the department of Housing and Urban Development. Part of the study includes surveying people who Read More …
A housing coalition plans to present a report Monday to the Town Board on its findings, including recommendations for more affordable housing in Huntington. The 28-page Huntington Township Housing Coalition documents a shortage of affordable housing needed for a workforce essential to keeping residents here Read More …
You know it’s something when they take down the paywall. Newsday’s report on Long Island housing discrimination is free to view and a forum on it was open to the public earlier this week in Melville. In attendance were many progressive groups and perhaps fewer Read More …
The Suffolk County Legislature approved infrastructure funding Tuesday for the Matinecock Court affordable housing complex in East Northport. First proposed in 1978, the project calls for 146 affordable housing units on a 14.5-acre parcel of vacant land on the northwest corner of Pulaski Road and Read More …