{"id":160309,"date":"2026-03-11T13:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160309\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T13:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:51:16","slug":"nyc-clears-path-for-basement-apartments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160309\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Clears Path For Basement Apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, NY \u2014 City Council approved legislation allowing basement accessory dwelling units in newly built one- and two-family homes to be rented.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, sponsored by Council Member Pierina Ana Sanchez, aligns the city\u2019s Housing Maintenance Code with zoning reforms adopted as part of the city\u2019s 2024 housing package.<\/p>\n<p>Those reforms legalized accessory dwelling units, including basement apartments, in many neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>The new legislation ensures cellar apartments created during new construction receive the same rental allowances as those built within existing homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Council\u2019s landmark 2024 City for All housing package \u2014 which secured more than $5 billion in housing investments \u2014 and the City of Yes zoning reforms allowed us to build a little more housing in every neighborhood,\u201d Sanchez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK, NY \u2014 City Council approved legislation allowing basement accessory dwelling units in newly built one- and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-160309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}