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Check out NYC’s “Where We Live” Draft Report

This week, the City of New York released the draft, Where We Live NYC, fair housing assessment report. They will hold a hearing at DCP on February 6th and seek public comments by March 7th. The City of New York has engaged hundreds of residents, over 150 community-based and advocacy organizations, including NYHC, through the process […] Read More

Trump Administration Releases Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Proposed Changes

While NYC takes a step forward in fair housing, the federal government takes a step back. This week, HUD released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for changes, which we believe will be detrimental, to the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule. The AFFH rule is a legal requirement that federal agencies and federal grantees further the […] Read More

FDIC and OCC’s Proposed Changes to CRA

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) have jointly proposed sweeping changes to modernize the agencies’ regulations under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The intent is to overhaul CRA assessment boundaries, criteria for activities earning credit in CRA exams and how banks are scored overall for their performance. These changes […] Read More

HUD Spending Bill Enacted

The FY 2020 HUD Spending bill was passed by Congress and signed by the President in December. The spending bill allocated $56 billion to HUD programs, which is $2.3 Billion more than last year and $12 billion more than the president’s request. With this spending bill, Congress continues to clearly reject the administration’s calls to drastically cut […] Read More

NYC Must Focus on NYCHA

Check out this CityLimit’s article, which quotes Rachel Fee of the NYHC on the need and desire of the affordable housing industry to preserve NYCHA’s ailing housing stock by integrating public housing into NYC’s Housing Plan. Read More

NYHC’s Disparate Impact Rule Comments

In August, HUD published proposed revisions to its interpretation of the Fair Housing Act’s disparate impact rule. Disparate impact allows people to show that a housing policy had a negative impact on them because of their race, sex, national origin, disability, or other protected characteristic – even if the policy appears on its face to apply […] Read More

Public Housing Emergency Response Act

Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez (D-NY7) introduced legislation (HR 4546) last week that would provide $70 billion in funding to address the growing gap between annual federal public housing capital funding and nation’s capital needs backlog. $32 billion of that funding would go to NYCHA. If this bill is enacted, the funding would improve the lives of not only […] Read More

United for Housing Campaign Kicks Off

New York Housing Conference recently launched United for Housing, a campaign for 2021 mayoral investment in housing. We are bringing stakeholders together in a collaborative process with cross-sector dialogue to make housing policy recommendations for NYC’s next mayor. As a big-tent coalition, we will convene affordable housing experts and leaders in issues such as health, education, environment, […] Read More

Press Conference on Federal Housing Budget and Housing Tax Credit Legislation

NYHC is a member of the Federal Tax and Budget Response Team (a state-based coalition led by FPWA). On August 21st, advocates in housing and human services rallied at Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement Queensbridge Community Center with Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY12) and Council Member Helen Rosenthal (D-NY6) calling for full Congressional support for the […] Read More