Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few issues are more polarizing than housing, where people neglect hard data and prefer instead to make outlandish and terrifying ...

New York's affordable housing crisis took another hit with the defeat of Gov. Hochul's much-hyped 'Housing Compact.' The failure suggests that politicians are far more focused on votes than reducing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lost in the conversation, however, is an uncomfortable truth: New York’s land use and urban planning framework are relics of an ...

When Gov. Hochul announced plans for statewide housing growth and density targets, some New Yorkers — especially in the suburbs — slammed the proposal, fearing that even modest growth would disrupt ...

Jolie Milstein is president and CEO of the New York State Association for Affordable Housing, based in New York City. A recent report from CNY Fair Housing found that the county’s exclusionary zoning, ...

The governor has set aside her proposal to make localities meet housing targets — the centerpiece of her real estate agenda. In a statement Tuesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul said that while she and lawmakers ...

You can’t talk seriously about Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposed New York Housing Compact without acknowledging with respect that she is the first Governor in decades to try to get localities in the ...

Governor Kathy Hochul is attempting a major course correction in New York’s approach to housing creation in this year’s state budget and the stakes couldn’t be higher. For the governor, weakened after ...

As the state budget deadline nears, pro-development housing group Open New York is laser-focused on backing a proposal from Gov. Kathy Hochul to enforce housing construction targets in localities ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Housing Compact is more right than wrong for New York State for several reasons. The governor is right — New York State has more jobs than housing. Hochul uses the statistic that ...