Basement apartments provide affordable housing options in crowded urban hubs like New York City, where the average rent for a Manhattan apartment is $4,140, according to RENTCafé data. But far too ...

NYC has published draft guidelines to launch a pilot program legalizing basement apartments for qualifying one- and two-family homes citywide.

There could soon be an influx of basement apartments in New York City, at a time when the city’s affordable housing crisis has become all the more dire. City Council members Brad Lander, Fernando ...

Q. In 2003, I submitted plans for a new home to the local building department that also included a one-bedroom basement apartment. I didn’t anticipate any difficulty with the procedure because the ...

There’s a reason basement apartments suffer from the stigma that they do. With vacancy rates so low and the Toronto market so hot, homeowners are able to offer some pretty grim ‘"features": ceiling ...

Thousands of New Yorkers living in basement apartments without basic safety protections could soon see their homes legalized under long-awaited rules the city released this week — more than four years ...

The Town of Huntington is proposing changes that would legalize basement apartments and detached garages as secondary living spaces in single-family homes, measures they say will help boost affordable ...

Only five of 800 basement apartment owners who expressed interest in a program to legalize those units ultimately participated, city officials said Tuesday. The main reasons were cost and zoning that ...

In Ilioupoli, a quiet, residential district south of Athens in Greece, Point Supreme Architects were tasked with converting a ...

Basement apartments help alleviate the housing crunch in urban areas by providing affordable options. Illegal apartments that are not up to code can result in unsafe living conditions. As a landlord, ...