housing shortage

Housing advocates and organizers gathered in downtown Binghamton Saturday, handing out hot food, warm clothes, and harm reduction supplies like fentanyl test strips and the overdose-reversing drug naloxone.

Advocates say Broome County is not doing enough to address an increasingly urgent housing shortage.

Airbnb hosts in Ithaca will now have to live for more than half of the year on the property they’re renting.

Since New York’s eviction moratorium expired last year, rural eviction rates have soared above pre-pandemic levels.

Binghamton’s school board voted unanimously against a proposed $11.5 million tax break for a development company Tuesday night. The developer wants to build a 120-unit apartment complex at the site of a former parking garage downtown.

“Before, if you walked in Johnson City, you would just hear kids laughing and giggling. Now you don’t hear that. All you hear is construction.”

The land bank will use the money to save roughly a dozen properties on Broome County’s tax foreclosure list.

That way, the city could keep encampments away from crowded or dangerous areas, and concentrate them in places where there is better access to service workers and emergency responders.

Across the region, 483 people either stayed in shelters or on the street on a single night this year.

According to the proposal, the Ithaca Dedicated Encampment Site would house up to 50 residents experiencing homelessness.