TUNE INTO WCNY FOR RACHEL FEE’S INTERVIEW ON $2 BILLION MOU WITH CAPITAL CORRESPONDENT, SUSAN ARBETTER Listen live today at 11.45 NYHC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF STATEWIDE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PLAN ON CAPITAL TONIGHT $150M RELEASED FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING BUT ALBANY’S WORK IS NOT DONE UNTIL AGREEMENT ON FULL $2B MOU IS […]
New York Housing Conference partnered with the National Housing Conference to produce this fact sheet on Income Averaging, one of our top policy priorities. The Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2016, introduced in May by Senators Cantwell and Hatch, would establish an income averaging provision to better serve households across the low-income spectrum in […]
NYHC Executive Director Rachel Fee sat down with Capital Tonight to discuss the latest developments surrounding the State’s affordable housing plan.
On the last day of the legislative session, affordable housing advocates and stakeholders are calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan to not leave Albany without signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that would allocate a promised $2 billion for affordable and supportive housing statewide and address […]
The proposed changes would instead determine those market rents by ZIP Code… [but there’s] fear that would make the program impractical. “If you’re searching for an apartment, then you have to figure out on this block how much a voucher is worth and, on the other side, how much it is worth,” said Rachel Fee, […]
“It’s not clear why lawmakers feel no urgency to spend $2 billion in housing funds,” said [NYHC’s Rachel] Fee. “My biggest fear is it will not get done this session and will get pushed to the end of the budget year [March]. This didn’t have to happen in session at all. It could have been […]
The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has announced “Fast 3” – a total revamp of its Section 8 Housing Choice voucher program. Property owners who partner with NYCHA will have access to: 1. Fast Pass: an inspection appointment within 5 days 2. Fast Match: free online listings to match up available units with approved […]
June 16th legislative session ends $2 billion in affordable housing funding was enacted in the NYS Budget on April 1 in recognition of our state’s worsening affordable housing and homeless crisis. $2 billion unspent Funds for 100,000-unit affordable housing initiative cannot be spent until Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl […]
“There is an affordable-housing community that wants to be buying sites and identifying projects that this money could fund, but all of that gets held up if we don’t have a statewide housing plan,” said Rachel Fee, executive director of the New York Housing Conference.
June 16th legislative session ends $2 billion in affordable housing funding was enacted in the NYS Budget on April 1 in recognition of our state’s worsening affordable housing and homeless crisis. $2 billion unspent Funds for 100,000-unit affordable housing initiative cannot be spent until Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl […]