Jo Ann Lawson, president of the Lakeview Tenants Association in East Harlem, told a panel of legislators that she was “ashamed” of where she lives. Opened in 1976, the four-building Lakeview apartment ...

The Mitchell-Lama roller coaster just took another dip. In late February, the State Supreme Court’s appellate division ruled that even tenants protected by rent stabilization could face massive rent ...

The state has closed a loophole that allowed landlords to enact huge rent hikes upon exiting the Mitchell-Lama program. Under the loophole, owners of Mitchell-Lama rental buildings constructed before ...

In a most unexpected development, New York State politicans are pushing to restart the Mitchell-Lama housing program for the middle class in New York, The Wall Street Journal reported. The effort, ...

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MacNeil Mitchell was the Yale-educated scion of a Connecticut family steeped in public service, who represented Manhattan's tony silk-stocking district as a Republican in the state Senate. Alfred Lama ...

“It's a young family's world at Co-op City, the new town being created in N.Y. City," read a promotional poster in the 1960s. "Family-sized apartments at a price you can afford. It's perfect for the ...

Opened in 1976, the four-building Lakeview apartment complex at Fifth Avenue and 107th Street once illustrated the promise and ambition of New York state’s Mitchell-Lama housing program, which offered ...