After the mayor-appointed board that sets rent increases each year voted to freeze rents in New York City's 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, enacting a key portion of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's agenda, attorneys advising landlords expect legal challenges to the move.
Attorneys focused on affordable housing say that bipartisan legislation to address housing affordability contains welcome tweaks to existing programs, but will not fundamentally change the market dynamics that place housing out of reach for many.
Five years ago, tragedy struck the greater Miami community when Champlain Towers South, a 12-story condominium in the village of Surfside, partially collapsed in the early hours of June 24, 2021, killing 98 people. The legal response that followed would prove to be stunning in its own way.