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OMNIBUS=Reinvestment in HUD funding and LIHTC Policy Improvements!

We are so excited to share some great news from Washington! In today’s budget deal that was announced today and details released this hour, the following changes are made to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) that will greatly benefit affordable housing development and preservation in New York and across the nation. INCOME AVERAGING […] Read More

Rep. Joe Crowley & NYHC Pen Op-Ed Condemning Trump Budget

Trump’s budget would exacerbate New York’s affordable housing crisis. Rents would spike and public housing would suffer under cuts prompted by GOP’s tax giveaway. Read Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY14) and NYHC Executive Director Rachel Fee’s joint op-ed in Crain’s New York Business condemning the Trump budget here or review the text below. “Our city is facing an […] Read More

NYHC & Housing Groups Call For Immediate Investment In Public Housing & Long-Term Plan

Today, New York Housing Conference, Community Service Society of New York, Coalition for the Homeless, Enterprise Community Partners, LISC NYC, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Leading Age New York and the Neighborhood Preservation Coalition of New York State, wrote a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio. We asked our State […] Read More

Rachel Fee NY Daily News Op-Ed: Trump Abandons Public Housing

Rachel Fee wrote an Op-ed published in the Daily News on February 16th. Please find the text below: “President Trump’s budget is likely dead on arrival in Congress, but the message he sent to people living in public housing is not a tweet to delete or a truth easily denigrated as “fake news.” It is […] Read More

PRESIDENT’S TRUMP BUDGET: NY STATE IMPACT (UPDATED)

*BLOG POST UPDATED 2/16/18 TO REFLECT CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES’ CHANGE IN RENT INCREASE IMPACT ESTIMATIONS President Trump’s FY 2019 Budget cuts HUD funding by $8.8 billion or 18.3% compared to enacted FY 2017 funding [1]. This proposal represents a major shift in the federal government’s role in subsidized housing. Public Housing Capital, […] Read More

PRESIDENT’S BUDGET REQUEST FAILS PUBLIC HOUSING AND FAMILIES IN NEED (UPDATED)

*BLOG POST UPDATED 2/16/18 TO REFLECT CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES’ CHANGE IN RENT INCREASE IMPACT ESTIMATIONS President Trump’s budget proposal for FY 2019 goes several steps further than last year’s budget in dismantling HUD programs and funding. With total cuts of $8.8 billion, HUD programs and low-income families using these programs would be […] Read More

Federal Budget Caps Raised

Early this morning, the Senate and then the House hurriedly voted to pass a final short-term FY 2018 budget bill as the last short-term agreement expired at midnight. The approved legislation included a bi-partisan agreement to raise the debt ceiling and to lift top-line spending cap levels on defense and domestic priorities by a total […] Read More

Federal Budget Status Update

Congress needs to reach a FY 2018 budget deal by February 8th to avoid another government shutdown. Currently, House and Senate Democrats are still divided over whether they can agree to a budget deal without a DACA solution, while some Republicans are anxious about raising government spending caps for defense and non-defense spending by more […] Read More

NYHC to Testify at State Housing Budget Hearing

On January 24th, NYHC will testify before the NY Joint Legislative Hearing on Housing. Please find the transcript of Rachel Fee’s testimony below. “My name is Rachel Fee. I am Executive Director of the New York Housing Conference (NYHC). I would like to thank the Committee Chairs Cymbrowitz & Little, and other Committee Members, for […] Read More