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Who Should Actually Solve This? Rethinking How Housing Gets Built in New York
Either the public sector builds housing — funding it, managing it, and owning it — or the private sector is given enough incentive to do so at scale.
For decades, the city has relied primarily on the private market. There is an illustrious if limited history of nonprofit housing development, but it is not currently in wide use. Programs like 421-a, and now 485-x, are designed to bridge the gap between what it costs to build housing and what the market can support.
The Labor Crisis Nobody Is Talking About: Who Is Actually Building New York
Part 3: Michael explores how labor availability, immigration policy, and rising construction costs are adding another layer of constraint to New York City’s housing-production challenges.
The 99-Unit Loophole: How 485-x Is Reshaping What Gets Built
Part 2: Michael considers how 485-x is influencing development patterns, with project sizes increasingly clustering below key labor-cost thresholds.
Blackstone Parc
Fifteen years after being introduced to this site in Riverdale and working on four schemes for two developers, we are proud to share with you completed photos of our latest multifamily building, Blackstone Parc…
Queens Bronx Builders Association Award 2018 - Summit Parc Multifamily Apartment Building
John and Michael attended the Queens & Bronx Building Association Dinner on December 1 last year, where Summit Parc, a 15-unit apartment building on West 238th Street in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, was …