New York Housing Conference urges Congress to establish a fixed rate for the 4% Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) to make up for Covid-related economic losses and help spur production of needed affordable housing. Read Rachel’s op-ed in City Limits here. Read the NYHC policy brief here. The need for affordable housing is greater […]
Rachel Fee supported the recent proposal to rezone SoHo in an op-ed published in Crain’s New York Business. Fee says that the SoHo rezoning, “should be the first of many such plans in the future, as it will reverse restrictive zoning practices that keep far too many New York City neighborhoods unaffordable and overwhelmingly white.” […]
President-elect Joe Biden has started his transition planning after major news outlets called the election in his favor last weekend. His transition plan and his campaign have major items that would help housing in New York. On BuildBackBetter – the transition plan website – Biden calls for immediate priorities related to COVID recovery, which may […]
Last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he will restore the $457 million in housing capital cuts in FY 2021, a exciting partial victory in our push to restore the $1 billion in cuts passed last year. This victory would not have been possible without the support of all of our partners, who make these campaigns possible. […]
New York Housing Conference released a policy brief this week showing that the city’s capital cuts save very little money in the current operating budget but have significant costs to the city. We also find that given the current economic conditions, now is the right time to invest in housing through the city capital budget. In our […]
The New York Housing Conference along with The Citizens Housing and Planning Council sent a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo calling on him to veto A.7820/S.7215-A. The bill will prevent the City from opening new homeless shelters anywhere in the City by creating an additional opportunity for a vocal minority of NIMBY obstructionists to stoke […]
The United for Housing campaign is developing housing recommendations for New York City’s next mayor and we want to hear from you. We know that the best decisions are made from the ground up and the next mayor needs to hear from people in the community. Last week we hosted two public events – one […]
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s housing plan produced thousands of fewer units last year according to a New York Housing Conference analysis due to cuts to the HPD budget. Last month HPD released their housing plan production numbers for fiscal year 2020 (July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020) announcing that they financed 6,503 new construction […]
On July 28, the New York Housing Conference hosted NYCHA Chair and CEO Gregory Russ for the July installment of our summer seminar series, produced by our Rising Leaders Network. At the webinar, Chair Russ announced a promising new plan to preserve the city’s public housing. NYCHA has been under threat of deterioration from disinvestment […]
Congress must act to prevent a crisis of eviction and displacement for renters, which will be the next major event on our nation’s timeline of housing injustice without federal aid.