{"id":1128,"date":"2018-11-10T10:35:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/2018\/11\/10\/east-new-york-basement-apartment-legalization-one-step-closer-with-upcoming-city-council-hearing\/"},"modified":"2018-11-10T10:35:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:35:47","slug":"east-new-york-basement-apartment-legalization-one-step-closer-with-upcoming-city-council-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/east-new-york-basement-apartment-legalization-one-step-closer-with-upcoming-city-council-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"East New York Basement Apartment Legalization One Step Closer With Upcoming City Council Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few years the De Blasio administration has been pushing for a plan to legalize basement apartments in Brooklyn, beginning with East New York.\u00a0 The plan is now in the hands of the City Council, as they prepare for a November 20, 2018 hearing.<\/p>\n<p>East New York will be the first neighborhood to test the plan, which will help landlords legalize their basement apartments.\u00a0 The idea is that basement apartments will increase the housing inventory for New Yorkers, while bringing illegal basement apartments to code, in terms of safety.\u00a0 \u00a0New York City is prepared to provide assistance to the landlords in the form of low-cost loans, to be used to bring their basement apartments to code.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to <a href=\"https:\/\/eastnewyork.com\/\">EastNewYork.com<\/a> for updates on the process.<\/p>\n<p>Read more articles on NYC basemant apartment legalization:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eastnewyork.com\/east-new-york-basement-apt-conversion-program-deadline-for-community-based-organizations-to-respond-is-aug-15\/\">East New York Basement Apt Conversion Program Deadline for Community Based Organizations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eastnewyork.com\/nyc-pilot-program-to-make-basement-apartments-legal-ready-to-begin-in-east-new-york\/\">NYC Pilot Program to Make Basemant Apartments LEgal Ready To Begin in East New York<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few years the De Blasio administration has been pushing for a plan to legalize basement apartments in Brooklyn, beginning with East New York.\u00a0 The plan is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5887,"featured_media":1129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-housing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - 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