A video about a mom building her daughters a new apartment to live in rent-free has gone viral on TikTok. The clip was posted by @lxxndaa_ and has garnered 16.6 million views since it was posted on ...

“One of my favorite basement renovations is turning the area into a separate living space,” said Aja McClanahan, financial writer and real estate agent from Space Coast Move HQ. “This means you’d need ...

Basement renovations can help to reduce wasted space, but just because the goal of a fully finished basement seems like a ...

The future of a plan to bring more illegal New York City basement apartments out of the shadows and up to code could depend on whether Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers can reach a wide-ranging ...

A city pilot program meant to encourage the legalization of basement apartments is showing just how difficult that will be without state action, according to a new report from the Citizens Housing & ...

Parking rules, ceiling heights and soaring costs are torpedoing efforts to make basement apartments safer for low-income and immigrant New Yorkers, despite the city’s attempts to bring existing units ...

State legislators left basement apartments out of their budget proposals, but two Manhattan Democrats have pitched a new path to legalization. Sen. Brian Kavanagh and Assembly member Harvey Epstein on ...

A pilot program to convert illegal basement apartments in parts of Brooklyn into legal and safe units has just five active participants out of roughly 8,000 homeowners initially contacted, city ...

New York still hasn’t figured out how to make hazardous basement apartments safe. Two years ago, floods killed 11 people in basement apartments. The deaths inspired conversations about improving and ...