What is the tax lien sale, and how did it get started in New York City? The tax lien sale is the mechanism that New York City uses in order to basically collect delinquent taxes, water debt or ...

A public hearing on New York City’s controversial tax lien sale took a turn recently when protesters rushed the speaking area, chanting for task force members to “do your jobs, stop the sale that ...

“The city sells the lien sale as a financial enforcement tool, but ignores the fact that it is a pipeline to the affordable housing crisis.” A protestor at City Hall in 2023, calling for the end of ...

The sale was slated for May 20, but the Adams administration agreed to delay it to June 3. As of Monday evening, the administration had made no announcement about delaying the sale again. Properties ...

CITYWIDE — MORE THAN 11,000 Brooklyn homes are at risk in the city’s 2025 tax lien sale, resumed after a pause since 2021, the city’s Department of Finance warns. The sale transfers unpaid property ...

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 ...

An attorney and founder of a tax-lien investment firm was convicted by a federal jury of defrauding a bank and investors out of over $20 million, officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the ...