In their FY 2023 Budget Response the City Council called on Mayor Eric Adams to honor his campaign promise to allocate $4 billion for affordable housing capital per year, including $2.5 billion for HPD and $1.5 billion for NYCHA. The Council’s proposal is worth reading in full: “Mayor Adams signed a campaign pledge to commit $4 billion […]
President Biden released his FY2023 Budget Proposal requesting $71.9 billion for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), about $6.2 billion more than what was enacted in the FY2022 spending bill. The administration seeks significant increases in funding to expand rental assistance and increase affordable housing supply and opportunity for homeownership. However, it also proposes funding levels for some […]
New York Housing Conference executive director Rachel Fee wrote an Op-Ed in LoHud calling on the state to pass and fund the Housing Access Voucher Program. The rental assistance program, modeled after Section 8 where tenants pay no more than 30 percent of their income on rent and the government pays the difference, is supported […]
The New York Housing Conference submitted testimony to the Committee on Housing and Buildings on the preliminary budget, calling on the city to double housing capital investment to $4 billion per year, including $2.5 billion per year for HPD and $1.5 billion per year for NYCHA. We also expressed our concern over staffing levels at HPD and […]
Mayor Eric Adams has inherited a staffing crisis across many agencies but if he does not act quickly it will slow down housing production and other housing-related services. The Mayor must get creative and allow agencies to hire up quickly. Make no mistake, the staffing shortage is inefficient and hurting the government. While there may […]
In two letters sent to state legislative leadership on Monday, March 7th, the New York Housing Conference led calls for the support of two policies that will create vital housing opportunities in New York City. The first letter asks for the inclusion of a proposal to lift the residential FAR Cap in the State’s Multiple Dwelling […]
The New York Housing Conference submitted testimony this week informing the public about the risk of evictions due to the pandemic and recession and the need for additional rental assistance. We testified to the City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings and the Committee on General Welfare. In our testimony, we talked about the need […]
This month, NYHC and RLN hosted the second Winter Thought Leader event of the season. Carolyn Grossman Meagher presented key findings from the a recent Department of City Planning report covering regional housing production over the last decade and Noah Kazis discussed the tools, laws, and politics of reforming exclusionary zoning in New York and […]
Mayor Eric Adams released his first budget yesterday – the 2023 Preliminary Budget – and we are extremely disappointed that he did not even mention housing in his remarks nor prioritize it in his budget plans. Instead, he chose to maintain the status quo and abandon his campaign promise to double city capital spending on […]
When candidate Eric Adams met with the United for Housing coalition in March of 2021, he made a bold promise to allocate $4 billion in capital for affordable housing and public housing in New York City, calling it “a smart ask.” He also supported the principles we used to guide us in developing our recommendations, […]