New game give you perspective on real-life challenges facing old rental buildings.

Here are a few things to keep an eye out for when you’re negotiating with your landlord or prospective landlord about your living arrangement!

A brooklyn resident posted the bogus listing to make apartment hunters consider the dire state of the housing situation in Bushwick.

Your input is requested at a meeting about Bushwick’s future: Bushwick residents have teamed up with Brooklyn Community Board 4, the Department of City Planning and the offices of local city council members Antonio Reynoso and Rafael Espinal to develop a community based approach to balancing “the desire to create and preserve affordable housing with the need to preserve Bushwick’s character

A former rehab facility on Bushwick’s DeKalb Ave is about to reopen as a 100-bed homeless shelter

Before “affordable housing” became a politically charged buzzword, it must have once seemed like a laughable redundancy

It’s no joke: New York City rents have skyrocketed in the past few years, and will continue to climb for the foreseeable future

It rained in several short but intense intervals yesterday

Ask any New Yorker about a bad experience with a landlord, and they’ll probably have a story or two to tell

Three 2-bedroom units of affordable housing in Bushwick are currently accepting applications

A few weeks ago, we told you about the crisis facing Bushwick’s El Garden, one of the 17 community gardens on public land across the city at risk of being leveled to create new housing developments

1223 Broadway Apply now — CUFFH (@CUFFH) January 22, 2015 We’re psyched to report that affordable housing in Bushwick is not only some kind of a myth. Alongside newly developed luxury condos, we sometimes get to report that there actually is affordable housing available in Bushwick. Two newly constructed units at 1223 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY (off Kosciuszko […]

Increasing affordable housing and creating community green space are both laudable goals to pursue in the ongoing evolution of NYC’s neighborhoods, but a recent decision from city hall to invite developers to turn community gardens across the city into construction sites for new affordable housing seems to pit the two objectives against each other

All photos by Lucia Reed for Bushwick Daily On a recent rainy Sunday, I bundled up and hustled across Bushwick. I was coming from a meeting with the owner of Bootleg Bar, which just opened up on Myrtle and Bleeker, and I was rushing to a panel on affordable housing being held at Radio Bushwick. […]

We don’t need to remind you that Bushwick is rife with housing tragedies

Are you concerned about the proposed rezoning of the former Rheingold Brewery complex? As we’ve reported, many concerned Bushwick residents have felt left out of the approval process for the rezoning, which would allow for the construction of nearly 1,000 apartment units in brand new 7- and 8-story apartment buildings near the Flushing Avenue J-train stop in northwest Bushwick

The government’s budget deadline has passed, the Senate and the House were not able to agree on a spending bill because of last-ditch attempts by critics of the Affordable Care Act in the House who voted to defund the program, and the United States is going into federal government shutdown starting this morning

Photo from http://www.whytuesday.org/2010/10/28/bloomberg-thumbs-up-to-san-fran-weekend-voting/ …just kidding, kids can’t vote. But you can! And you should, if you want to avoid having your neighbors assume you’re a clueless transplant from the Midwest. Be the change you wish to see in the world, keep your rent from skyrocketing, or get a sticker. And NYC is doing everything within […]

Plans are in the works to turn a Bushwick convent located on De Sales Place into affordable housing through a nonprofit set up by Vito Lopez