City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

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Adi Talwar

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Welcome to City Limits’ NYC Housing Calendar, a weekly feature where we round up the latest housing and land use-related events and hearings, as well as upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. If you know of an event we should include in next week’s calendar, email jeanmarie@citylimits.org.

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Upcoming Housing and Land Use-Related Events:

  • Thursday, Aug. 25, 6 to 8 p.m.: The organization IMPACCT Brooklyn is hosting a free Tenants’ Rights webinar to help renters understand the language in their leases, find out what resources are available to them and learn to fight a potential eviction. For more information and to sign up for the training, email info@impacctbk.org.
  • Monday, Aug. 29, 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.: The Met Council on Housing holds its weekly membership meeting to discuss housing-related issues, policy and upcoming campaigns.  Contact Andrea@metcouncilonhousing.org for more information. 
  • Tuesday, Aug. 30,  4 to 5:30 p.m.: The groups Rethink Penn Station and the Empire State Coalition will hold a rally on the steps of the Farley Post Office on 8th Avenue Street between 31st and 33rd Streets to protest plans to rezone and transform the area around Penn Station. More information available here.
  • Wednesday, Aug. 31, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.: There will be a public hearing for comments on NYCHA’s FY2023 Draft Annual Plan at the Pace Schimmel Theater located at 3 Spruce St. in Manhattan. NYCHA residents and members of the public can submit written comments on the plan through September 2, 2022 by email to annualplancomments@nycha.nyc.gov. More information on the meeting and how to participate remotely here.
  • The NYC Continuum of Care is currently new accepting new project applications through a special HUD funding opportunity to address unsheltered homelessness. New project applications will be accepted through Sept. 14 at 5 p.m. A Bidders Conference/Information Session will be held on Aug. 31 a 11 a.m. More information available here.

NYC Affordable Housing Lotteries Ending Soon 

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) are closing lotteries on the following subsidized buildings over the next week: