{"id":195061,"date":"2026-04-13T07:16:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195061\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:16:26","slug":"councilmember-sanchez-on-citys-affordable-housing-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195061\/","title":{"rendered":"Councilmember Sanchez on city&#8217;s affordable housing efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this week\u2019s \u201cIn Focus,\u201d NY1\u2019s Cheryl Wills talks to Councilmember Pierina Ana Sanchez about recent rental rip-off hearings and affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez, who is also the chair of the Housing Committee, says she supports a rent freeze.<\/p>\n<p>She also explains how the Safer Homes Act targets irresponsible landlords with numerous violations, using municipal foreclosure to transfer properties to responsible owners.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s \u201cIn Focus,\u201d NY1\u2019s Cheryl Wills talks to Councilmember Pierina Ana Sanchez about recent rental rip-off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7488,7490,7489,7423,7487,9,24,55,54,56,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-195061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-in-focus","9":"tag-cheryl-wills","10":"tag-dana-perez","11":"tag-in-focus","12":"tag-in-focus-shows","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-city-news","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195061","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=195061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}