housing

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

Home heating prices are up as natural gas supply costs continue to surge worldwide. This comes as households in New York face staggering utility debt, which advocates worry will be difficult to pay back in time.

Enacting these initiatives would use roughly $200,000 of the city's ARPA funds.

Heating equipment is the second-largest cause of home fires nationally. They tend to occur in winter as people try to get the chill out of their homes.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters Friday that she has not yet determined whether the state will extend the soon-to-expire eviction moratorium. Some housing advocates are disappointed the governor failed to address the moratorium in her State of the State agenda.

The Binghamton City Council voted Tuesday to earmark $3 million for renovations at the Town and Country Apartments, which serves low-income residents on the city's North Side. But the decision has faced pushback.

The housing market in Schuyler County is hot. Land investment firms pay cash for land in mostly rural places. But some are worried residents could be taken advantage of.

Housing activists in Binghamton are calling on college students to join efforts to improve the quality of housing and tenant protections.

The bill would limit rent increases to 3% annually, or 1.5 times the annual percentage change in the consumer price index for rent in that area.

New York is one of just a handful of states that have exhausted the rent relief funding allocated to them by the federal government.