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Where We Live Comments

The New York Housing Conference submitted comments on New York City’s Where We Live Draft Housing plan. We applaud Mayor Bill de Blasio for voluntarily consulting with more than 150 organizations, producing a thoughtful draft plan to advance fair housing and racial equity, and for using data to honestly highlight existing inequities in New York […] Read More

Pathway to Stable and Affordable Housing for All Act

Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), NY Congressional Delegation member and member of the House Appropriations Committee, introduced the Pathway to Stable and Affordable Housing for All Act, H.R. 5813, a bill which if enacted would help to ameliorate this nation’s homelessness and affordable housing crisis. NYHC supports this bill. Specifically, the bill consists of four provisions: […] Read More

Trump’s Budget Proposal Would Hurt NY

On Monday, the President released his FY21 Budget Proposal. The President’s FY21 HUD budget represents a 15% decrease in spending for critical affordable and public housing programs compared to FY20 enacted funding levels. It includes the complete elimination of several impactful and proven HUD programs and insufficient funding for existing rental assistance vouchers. Below is […] Read More

Mayor de Blasio’s SOTC Affordable Housing Agenda

NYHC attended Mayor de Blasio’s State of the City yesterday in which the Mayor kicked off his speech highlighting the public’s growing fear that they will be pushed out of the City and they will be the last generation of their family to be able to afford to live here. He highlighted that despite his […] Read More

NYHC State Budget Testimony

Rachel Fee testified at the State Joint Legislative Budget Committee on the Governor’s Executive Budget on Wednesday in Albany. NYHC called on the Legislature to bolster the impact of the statewide affordable housing plan by fully allocating the promised funding in the 5 year housing plan and providing additional funding for public housing and ESSHI […] Read More

NYS Budget 2020-2021

Last week, Governor Cuomo released the 2020-2021 Executive Budget outlining priorities for spending $178 billion while closing the $6.1 billion gap. The FY2021 budget marks the last funding year of the 5-year statewide affordable housing plan, which promises to create or preserve 100,000 units of affordable housing and 6,000 supportive housing units. The $20 billion […] Read More

Mayor Releases Preliminary Budget Proposal

Mayor de Blasio proposed a $95.3 billion preliminary budget, which is a $2.5 billion or 2.7% increase over the current enacted budget. This is the smallest percentage increase during his tenure as mayor. The mayor cited in his address that he is concerned about the state’s $6 billion deficient and how it could decrease the state’s funding […] Read More

Condo/Coop Tax Abatement to Help #SaveNYCHA

NYHC is happy to announce that Assembly Member Robert Rodriguez has reintroduced his Coop/Condo Tax Abatement Reform Bill (A7092). We are waiting to hear if the companion bill in the Senate will also be reintroduced. NYC will give away about $600 million this year in a relatively unknown tax break to homeowners. The Cooperative and […] Read More

Governor Cuomo’s 2020 State of the State

This year, Governor Cuomo separated his Executive Budget proposal from his State of the State announcement yesterday which includes 30 initiatives this year. NY State is beginning the new year facing a $6 billion budget gap. While there are no housing-related proposals among his 30 initiatives, he spoke passionately about NY’s homeless problem and his […] Read More