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Janaki is a reporter and writer based in New York City. She's covered housing and real estate at POLITICO since 2018, and has also written for the Wall Street Journal, the Oregonian, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She lives in Queens, and enjoys finding new restaurants, reading, and taking walks around the city.
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Confiscating a Russian oligarch’s luxury condo requires much more than political bluster (Politico, March 2022)
State's $100M program to convert hotels into housing drew just one applicant (Politico, February 2022)
Cities with empty offices see new room to expand housing (Politico, November 2021)
Mayoral candidates divided on a fix for public housing (Politico, May 2021)
Morales distances herself from former employer amid pressure from housing groups (Politico, April 2021)
Mayoral candidates' big plans for homelessness will be tough to see through (Politico, February 2021)
De Blasio rezoning plan spurs renewed battle over the future of SoHo (Politico, November 2020)
How the left killed another major NYC development (Politico, September 2020)
Tax breaks remain intact more than a year after Amazon's departure (Politico, August 2020)
New York is facing a potential explosion in homelessness (Politico, June 2020)
New York City's most crowded neighborhoods are often hardest hit by coronavirus (Politico, April 2020)
Property tax reform will be a heavy lift, despite mayor's optimism (Politico, January 2020)
Rent overhaul signals a 'tectonic shift' of real estate's power in Albany (Politico, June 2019)
City lags on affordable senior housing commitment (Politico, April 2019)
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