“We are glad the Governor is now trying to move the MOU forward. Housing affordability is a concern for 1 in 3 New Yorkers and it is a shame for lawmakers to sit by while $2 billion in enacted funds could be put to good use,” said Rachel Fee of the New York Housing Conference.

“We would be very disappointed if $100 million is divided up between districts for pet projects instead of repairing roofs, NYCHA’s most pressing capital need,” said Rachel Fee of the New York Housing Conference, a nonprofit that had criticized the delay in releasing the cash.

In an op-ed in Crain’s New York, NYHC joined AARP, Community Preservation Corp., CSH, Enterprise Community Partners, LISC New York City, NYSAFAH, and SHNNY to reiterate the need for the leadership in Albany to release the $2 billion budgeted for housing investment in New York State.

NYHC, Legal Aid Society, Community Service Society and 47 additional organizations signed on to joint comments voicing concerns regarding HUD’s proposed SAFMR changes to the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. It is estimated that nearly 56,000 NYC households would see their Section 8 subsidy decrease, forcing tenants to move in a tight rental market […]

Housing advocates have… crafted a plan for how the state should spend $1.9 billion on affordable and supportive housing over the next five years. “We hope this will kickstart negotiations,” said Rachel Fee, executive director of The New York Housing Conference, a group involved in putting forward the suggested MOU.

Each week, Ben Max of Gotham Gazette and Jarrett Murphy of City Limits discuss the latest on housing policy and politics in New York. With the presidential campaign in full swing and the national party platforms adopted, Max & Murphy are joined by Rachel Fee, Executive Director of the New York Housing Conference, to discuss […]

The New York Housing Conference has joined a coalition of affordable housing advocates to issue renewed demands for an MOU that would release $2 billion in already-approved affordable housing funding. A proposed agreement was announced that would allow housing projects to move forward. The proposal balances investments in senior housing, supportive units, homeownership programs and other […]

Executive Director Rachel Fee contributes her essay “Housing Choice Shouldn’t Be At The Expense of Other Low-Income Renters” to the latest installment of the Furman Center’s The Dream Revisited series. Discussion #20 debates the “benefits of defining fair market rent by zip code, to make it easier for families to move to higher-opportunity neighborhoods, and […]

On June 30, Governor Cuomo signed into law the Private Activity Bond Allocation Act of 2016 (A.10255/S.7637) which continues the same distribution formula for volume cap used in previous years and includes important reforms. Volume cap allocation formula: One-third to local Industrial Development Agencies (IDAs) in proportion to their share of the state’s population One-third […]

“The New York Housing Conference urges State leaders to continue negotiating the terms of a statewide 5-year housing plan to allocate the full $2 billion of enacted housing dollars for programmatic use,” reads the newsletter from The New York Housing Conference announcing the Tuesday rally. The statement goes on to detail the challenges developers face […]