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State Extender Bills Key to Housing Development Must Pass This Session

Before the State legislative session concludes tomorrow, both the New York State Housing Finance Agency and the New York City Housing Development Corporation must have their sunset provisions extended and granted additional bonding authority by statute to keep pace with growing preservation and new construction pipelines. See our joint letter with other NY affordable housing […] Read More

NY State’s Responsibility to NYCHA Residents

Featured in the Gotham Gazette today is an Op Ed, Seize the Albany Opportunity to Do More for NYCHA by Danny Barber. Mr. Barber is the Chair of the Citywide Council of Presidents of NYCHA residents, representing 400,000 public housing residents. He is also President of Jackson Houses Resident Inc., Chairman of the South Bronx […] Read More

City Budget Agreement Reached

Today, the Mayor and City Council agreed on a $92.8 billion FY 2020 budget. The budget includes: • An additional $194 million for 800 new affordable apartments for seniors, on top of those already committed in the Housing Plan. This will raise the total City commitment for newly constructed senior housing to $687 million from […] Read More

A real housing victory is in reach: Fix NYCHA by closing luxury tax breaks. An Op-Ed by Rachel Fee

A real housing victory is in reach: Fix NYCHA by closing luxury tax breaksBy Rachel Fee After decades of rent laws which allowed for rapidly escalating rents and deregulation of 150,000 apartments favoring landlord profits, one million households living in rent-stabilized housing are, fingers crossed, about to win big in Albany. While reforms have not […] Read More

NYS Rent Law Update

This week, Tenant Tuesday activists turned the heat up for Albany Lawmakers ending the day with arrests and a statement of support from Senate Leader Andrew Stewart Cousins in favor of all 9 bills in the Universal Rent Control platform. However, there is only agreement with the Assembly on 8 bills.  On Wednesday, Leaders of […] Read More

Federal National Housing Week of Action Events

Tomorrow and Wednesday, join organizations and people across the country and raise your voice about the importance of federal investment in affordable housing! The 3rd annual Our Homes Our Voices National Housing Week of Action runs from May 30 through June 5. During this week, there will be over 110 events across the U.S. discussing the need […] Read More

House Unveils FY 2020 HUD Spending Bill

The House Appropriations Subcommittee responsible for setting and overseeing HUD’s annual funding released its FY 2020 draft spending bill yesterday. The House has thankfully once again ignored the President’s request to drastically cut HUD funding and has instead proposed to increase HUD funding by $5.9 billion above FY 2019 funding levels. While this proposed increase […] Read More

AOC to Introduce Fair Chance at Housing Act

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY14-D) is set to introduce the Fair Chance for Housing Act, which will help to ensure that persons with criminal records have fair access to stable and affordable housing. Under current law, PHAs and owners of HUD-assisted housing have considerable discretion with respect to tenant screening, which allows for open discrimination against […] Read More

HUD Targets Mixed Immigration Status Families in Proposed Policy Change

This month, HUD published a proposed rule that would prohibit “mixed status families” from living in public and other HUD-assisted housing. Mixed status families are households that include members who are eligible and others who are ineligible for housing assistance based on their immigration status. Currently, HUD allows families to live together in subsidized housing […] Read More