Plans to convert a portion of Aurora Sinai Medical Center’s former western campus into 52 apartments received approval Tuesday from the Common Council’s Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee.

Slow down of Dubai residential rent increases continues in Q2 (AME Info)

As observed in the beginning of 2008, the slow down of residential rent increases in Dubai continued through the second quarter as well, according to property services company Asteco's quarterly real estate report.

Electeds To Tishman: Set Eviction Rules at Stuy Town, Cooper Village (The New York Observer)

On Tuesday afternoon, City Councilman Dan Garodnick called on Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village landlord Tishman Speyer to pay the legal fees of tenants who are proven to be legitimately occupying rent-stabilized apartments in the complex after contesting non-lease renewal notices from the landlord. Under the proposal, which was endorsed by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer ...

Tully: Housing audit shows agency needs repairs (The Indianapolis Star)

A recent federal audit paints a devastating picture of the Indianapolis Housing Agency. The audit found extensive health and safety violations in apartments where the Housing Agency pays the rent. It found the agency routinely failed to properly calculate rental assistance, paying out too much money in many cases. Among examples of shoddy record-keeping, auditors wrote that the Housing Agency ...

Basement fire shuts down Teaneck building (The Record)

TEANECK - A basement fire Tuesday badly damaged two apartments and left a six-unit building shut down at the Westgate Complex. Nobody was injured in the fire, which started just after 1 p.m. and was contained within 15 minutes.