{"id":328686,"date":"2026-08-24T20:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328686\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T20:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:42:08","slug":"in-conversation-how-nycs-housing-crisis-is-squeezing-tenants-and-small-homeowners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328686\/","title":{"rendered":"In Conversation: How NYC\u2019s Housing Crisis Is Squeezing Tenants and Small Homeowners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">Recorded live at HANAC Harmony JVL Older Adult Center in Astoria, this installment of In Conversation: The Affordability Series examines New York City\u2019s small two and three family homes, where an owner may live in one unit and rent out another. The conversation explores rising costs, limited tenant protections, basement apartment legalization, home flipping and what it would take to keep more New Yorkers in their homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">-Got any questions, comments or story ideas? Send us a message at NYCNow@WNYC.org<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">Photo: Carla Wills\/WNYC<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">Guests:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">Andrea Jerves, Director of Social Service Programs, Grants Administration and Compliance at HANAC<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">Doreen Mohammed, member of the Astoria Tenants Union<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">James Carr, member of the Astoria Tenants Union<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">Oudit Beharry, homeowner<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">Scott Kohanowski, General Counsel at the Center for NYC Neighborhoods<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">Annetta Seecharran, Executive Director of Chhaya Community Development Corporation<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">Troy Kingston, content creator known as Scourge Bliss<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">Brad Greenburg, Executive Director of the NYU Furman Center<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">Sylvia Morse, Director of Research and Policy at the Pratt Center for Community Development<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">State Senator Julia Salazar<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recorded live at HANAC Harmony JVL Older Adult Center in Astoria, this installment of In Conversation: The Affordability&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4982,87440,17,2538,9,12,4999,56,63,65,64,7994,21888,7178,25774,87439],"class_list":["post-328686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-arts","tag-classical","tag-culture","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-npr","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public","tag-radio","tag-wnyc","tag-wnyc-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328686","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=328686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}