Affordable Housing Policy & Advocacy

October 30th New NYHC Brief Examines How City of Yes Will Increase Affordability New York Housing Conference released a new brief that evaluates how City of Yes for Housing Opportunity will create affordability for NYC renters and homeowners and examined how the proposals can be expected to work across NYC and with other tax and housing programs. Given the scale of the crisis, NYHC acknowledges the importance of […] Read More
October 23rd ASAP Housing Act Introduced in House New York Housing Conference worked with Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-15) to introduce the Accelerated Supply of Affordable Production [ASAP] Housing Act (H.R. 9856). The ASAP Housing Act would exempt affordable housing from counting towards federal limits on state volume cap issuance for tax-exempt private activity bonds for ten years. The volume cap artificially limits how […] Read More
August 08th NYHC Testifies at Queens Borough President City of Yes Hearing NYHC Director of Policy and Operations Brendan Cheney testified at the Queens Borough President’s public hearing on the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity, sharing the need for more housing to address our housing crisis and history of housing discrimination. Our NYC Housing Tracker data shows that housing production is not shared equitably across the […] Read More

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