Basement apartments provide affordable housing options in crowded urban hubs like New York City, where the average rent for a Manhattan apartment is $4,140, according to RENTCafé data. But far too ...

Basement apartments help alleviate the housing crunch in urban areas by providing affordable options. Illegal apartments that are not up to code can result in unsafe living conditions. As a landlord, ...

In New York City, the basement floors of most buildings pose a conundrum for public officials. Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of New Yorkers live in basement and cellar apartments, ...

Ivanhoe Cambridge, the City of Montreal, Cogir Real Estate and Pomerleau have just announced a new mixed-use apartment building called Haleco. Haleco is a development project that combines residential ...

The Town of Huntington is proposing changes that would legalize basement apartments and detached garages as secondary living spaces in single-family homes, measures they say will help boost affordable ...

An estimated 114,000 people live in basement apartments in New York City, many of whom risk being relocated if the Department of Building finds their living situation to be illegal. According to city ...

Tens of thousands of New Yorkers are estimated to be living illegally in basement apartments. And now, just over a month after at least 11 people across New York City were found dead from flooding in ...

The devastation wrought by Ida underscored the need for a better way to legalize basement homes. But one woman’s experience shows the difficulties of finding a solution. By Mihir Zaveri When Mildred ...

New York City has no idea how many unofficial basement apartments it has across the five boroughs, even after 13 people drowned in below-ground housing during Ida. In a press conference yesterday, ...

Flushing: Maybe now the mayor and others will realize that there are reasons certain spaces are not okay to be legal apartments. Beyond the few cited violations mentioned, there are thousands more! A ...

At least 11 people were found dead in basements after torrential rains flooded New York City — nearly as many as those killed by Hurricane Ida in Louisiana, where the storm made landfall. By Mihir ...