On June 3,* New York City will resume selling the debt of property owners who owe taxes or water, sewer and emergency repair charges—but recent reforms mean homeowners have more options, and more ...
A public hearing on New York City’s controversial tax lien sale took a turn recently when protesters rushed the speaking area, chanting for task force members to “do your jobs, stop the sale that ...
“Mayor Adams’ Task Force has an opportunity to ease New York City’s perpetual affordable housing crisis and promote permanently affordable housing. The question is, will he choose Wall Street and real ...
The sale was slated for May 20, but the Adams administration agreed to delay it to June 3. As of Monday evening, the administration had made no announcement about delaying the sale again. Properties ...
CITYWIDE — MORE THAN 11,000 Brooklyn homes are at risk in the city’s 2025 tax lien sale, resumed after a pause since 2021, the city’s Department of Finance warns. The sale transfers unpaid property ...
Council members hold a press conference calling for the abolition of the tax lien sale in February 2023. (Photo by John McCarten / New York City Council) This is your first of three free stories this ...
As the City Council prepared to end New York City’s controversial tax lien sales, the de Blasio administration warned that delinquencies would rise. That’s exactly what’s happened. With the tax lien ...
More New Yorkers have stopped paying their property taxes — a troubling trend since the onset of the pandemic that city officials attribute to the end of a tax-lien sales program that punishes ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City officials announced Thursday that they would delay a planned lien sale to give owners in the five boroughs more time to get their properties removed from the debt ...
As the city prepares to hold the controversial tax lien sale for the first time since before the pandemic hit, housing advocates are warning that the program disproportionately targets Brooklyn’s most ...
As the city prepares to hold the controversial tax lien sale for the first time since before the pandemic hit, housing advocates are warning that the program disproportionately targets Brooklyn’s most ...