The Daily Dirt: A Rockrose development grows in Brooklyn

February 14, 2026 / no comments

There’s a common belief these days that there’s nowhere left to build in the city.   But Rockrose Development’s $100 million purchase of a Brooklyn city block, which closed Friday, shows that’s not entirely true — it just might not be easy.  The sale follows Rockrose dropping $65 million on a neighboring parcel in Cobble Hill that had been the site of many plans and zero apartments. Both sites were once the home of Long Island College Hospital, which Rockrose has now pieced back together.  An entity tied to LICH and SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University sold Rockrose the most recent […]

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Advocates use tricky math against housing abundance

February 14, 2026 / no comments

Anti-poverty advocates are using some tricky math to push back on the “abundance” movement as a solution to housing affordability. A new report by the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown Law School says that in markets where developers built a lot of housing, rents for low-income units went up more than for other units. The researchers got their study featured in a New York Times article. But the actual rent increases might have been smaller than the report made them seem, and in the context of rising expenses, they should surprise absolutely no one. Nor are they an […]

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