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Build 800,000 new homes: How Governor Hochul proposes to do it.

Build 800,000 new homes: How Governor Hochul proposes to do it.

The concept that restrictive zoning and land-use regulations reduce the supply of housing, and in turn, increase the price of housing has been getting significantly more discussion in recent years by think tanks on all sides of spectrum, including the CATO and Brookings Institutes. Joining her colleagues in States like Arizona, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, and North Carolina, as part of her 2023 Executive Budget, Governor Kathy Hochul announced a statewide strategy to build 800,000 new homes [...]
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Practice Area(s):   Real Estate Government Relations
Zombie Alert! Whiteman Zombie Property Enforcement Practice Secures Over $4M in Civil Penalties for New York Municipalities
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Zombie Alert! Whiteman Zombie Property Enforcement Practice Secures Over $4M in Civil Penalties for New York Municipalities

Posted By: Thomas Ruane (T.J.)
Over the last three years, Whiteman Osterman and Hanna attorneys Thomas Shepardson and T.J. Ruane have brought dozens of lawsuits against some of the nation’s largest mortgage lenders and servicers on behalf of several New York State municipalities under the State’s Zombie Property Law (New York Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law §1308, et seq.). Their efforts have resulted in court orders and judgments requiring these lenders and servicers to remediate, and in a few [...]
Practice Area(s):   Real Estate Municipal Environmental