New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is freezing tax lien sales as the city conducts a review of claims that the process ...

Normally when you buy a house, you don’t want a home with any outstanding liens against it. That’s also why you pay for a title company. But what happens to those houses with outstanding taxes? You ...

The mayor is ordering a six-month suspension in order to review the controversial system and add homeowner protections.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has paused the city’s tax lien sale program while officials conduct a six-month review and ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani suspended New York City’s annual tax lien sale, signaling a potential permanent end to the decades-old practice of selling municipal debt to private investors.  The decision ...

When Petal Sandiford stepped into the Flatbush YMCA several weeks ago, the 63-year-old home care worker had just one thing in mind: To get her late uncle’s house in Ocean Hill, where she and six of ...

Since I first became a member of the City Council, I have met with countless families facing foreclosure and displacement over debts that were shockingly small compared to the value of their homes. As ...

The city will now hold off on selling the debt of property owners—who make the list if they owe taxes or water, sewer and emergency repair charges—until June 3. The extension “gives New Yorkers more ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is hitting pause on New York City’s long-criticized practice of selling delinquent property and water debts to private investors, announcing Tuesday, March 10, 2026, that the tax ...

As the city prepares to hold the controversial tax lien sale for the first time since before the pandemic hit, housing advocates are warning that the program disproportionately targets Brooklyn’s most ...

Filmore Brown was shocked when his house in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, ended up in a foreclosure sale. But it had nearly ...