• NYHC Comments on Water Rate Increase

    New York City Water Board is holding public hearings and accepting written comments on their proposed water rate schedule. The Water Board is proposing a water rate increase of 3.7 percent. This proposed increase is half of what we expected, and the board has increased funding for the Multi-Family Water Assistance Program. It is important […] Read More

  • NYHC Report on the Impact of the Abrupt End of EHV

    New York Housing Conference released a new analysis about the impact of the sudden cut to funding for the Emergency Housing Voucher Program. The Emergency Housing Voucher Program (EHV) was part of a package of COVID relief passed in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. $5 billion was appropriated to fund 70,000 rental assistance […] Read More

  • NYHC Analysis of NYS FY 2025-2026 Enacted Housing Budget

    Albany’s final budget was over a month late but with the delay came some unexpected wins for housing, strongly supported by the New York Housing Conference. In addition to new capital to support zoning reforms passed in the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity, the final budget creates a $50 million pilot Housing Access Voucher […] Read More

  • NYHC Analysis of NYC FY2026 Executive Budget Proposal

    Last week, Mayor Eric Adams released his FY 2026 Executive budget. He announced two new housing funding proposals: $350 million for NYCHA’s PACT and Trust programs and $46 million in expense funding for supportive housing to create and preserve 5,850 supportive, congregate housing units as part of the NY 15 / 15 program. However, as […] Read More

  • NYHC Launches Mayoral Candidate Tracker

    NYHC recently launched our 2025 Mayoral Candidate Housing Platform Tracker where we have summaries and links to leading candidates’ housing platforms. In addition, NYHC sent all of the leading candidates a questionnaire about major housing issues and our Platform Tracker shows their answers. See the tracker here. Also, last week NYHC partnered with the NYU […] Read More

  • Trump’s Budget Would Destabilize Housing Market Causing Evictions & Multifamily Defaults

    Last week President Trump proposed a $33.6 billion cut to HUD in his “skinny” budget – a high-level outline of his budget priorities. Overall, the HUD budget is slashed by nearly 44%, with complete elimination of some programs and harmful policies designed to undermine the remaining programs. If enacted, it would dismantle the housing safety net for over a million people across New York State, upend rental payment […] Read More

  • NYHC Releases 2025 Housing Tracker

    The New York Housing Conference released the 2025 Housing Tracker report and updated the data on the NYC Housing Tracker website today. This is the fourth Housing Tracker report, and the data in the report shows the same trend as in the previous three reports: housing is built unevenly across New York City’s 51 council […] Read More

  • NYHC Testimony on NYC Housing Connect and Re-Rentals

    On Tuesday, April 29th, NYHC testified at the NYC Council Committee on Housing & Buildings oversight hearing on reforming NYC’s affordable housing lottery. The committee heard three bills that aim to improve Housing Connect for applicants. Filling Vacant Re-Rental Units – This bill would require that HPD post on the housing portal any re-rental if […] Read More
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