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

Adi Talwar

Homes in Jamaica, Queens.


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, Feb. 16 at 9:30 a.m.: The NYC Council’s Committee on Housing and Buildings will meet to discuss legislation that would amend the city’s rules around building signs violations. More here.
  • Thursday, Feb. 16 at 2 p.m.: The NYC Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation‘s application to develop new office, commercial and educational space 1368 Fulton St. More here.
  • Thursday, Feb. 16 at 6 p.m.: Tenants and Neighbors, in collaboration with the Legal Aid Society, will host an educational training over Zoom how tenants can access CityFHEPS (City Fighting Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Supplement). More here.
  • Thursday, Feb. 16 at 6 p.m.: Join HPD for a Homeowner Resource Fair in partnership with Neighborhood Initiatives Development Corp. (NIDC) and Assembly Member John Zaccaro Jr. More here.
  • Thursday, Feb. 16 at 6 p.m.: An information session about ARCScholars, a free 10-week program that pairs NYCHA residents aged 16-24 with students from CITY TECH to learn about architecture and design. More here.
  • Saturday, Feb. 18 at 7 p.m.: The People’s Forum and NYC-DSA will host “Beyond YIMBY/NIMBY Binary: Towards Working Class Control of Housing and Land,” a panel discussion on the housing crisis and social housing. More 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.