Jo Ann Lawson, president of the Lakeview Tenants Association in East Harlem, told a panel of legislators that she was “ashamed” of where she lives. Opened in 1976, the four-building Lakeview apartment ...

Among the winners and losers in the city’s now departed real estate boom, the Mitchell-Lama state affordable housing program in recent years came up as a loser. The boundless confidence and easy ...

Mitchell-Lama co-ops are hailed as one of New York’s most successful models of affordable housing. But they are not immune to the harsh realities of real estate ownership. Case in point: Cadman Towers ...

Opened in 1976, the four-building Lakeview apartment complex at Fifth Avenue and 107th Street once illustrated the promise and ambition of New York state’s Mitchell-Lama housing program, which offered ...