Affordable Housing
Evaluating the Rent Crisis: 10 Facts from the Housing Vacancy Survey and Advocates’ Reactions
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
At a City Council hearing on Monday, advocates evaluated new census data on the city’s housing emergency.
Affordable Housing
Max & Murphy: Nonprofit Developer, Gowanus Advocate & Rezoning Dissenter Michelle de la Uz
Jarrett Murphy |
Many of the defining policy storylines of today’s New York are, in one or more ways, on the plate of the Fifth Avenue Committee’s executive director, who is also on the City Planning Commission.
Affordable Housing
CityViews: New Data Makes Clear That NYC Needs Even More Affordable Housing
Jolie Milstein |
The latest data shows that the city has accomplished much already – but that more needs to be done to ensure that everyone who wishes to call our great city home can afford to do so.
Mapping the Future
4 Months After Rezoning, East Harlem Stakeholders Remain Vigilant
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Some advocates are now focused on the plan’s implementation, some on making it better and others on suing the city.
Affordable Housing
Cuomo and De Blasio: Political Foes … but Affordable Housing Partners?
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
The mayor has proposed 300,000 affordable units. The governor 112,000 such homes. It turns out the plans will overlap, reflecting the realities of construction costs and creating a joint legacy for the rival leaders.
Affordable Housing
Bronx Church Loses Property it Saved from Vacancy but Never Developed
Ahmed Jallow |
HPD has awarded a bid to a Massachusetts developer to create 169 units of affordable housing on the site in Mott Haven.
Affordable Housing
Report: Amid Housing Crisis, NY Must Rethink How Land is Owned
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Authors say that the nation’s current housing system fails communities and that political leaders must bring alternative models to scale.
Affordable Housing
City Dishes Inwood Library Details, Espaillat Sees a ‘Trojan Horse’
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
The city announced its selection of developers for the Inwood library site on Tuesday, two weeks before Community Board 12 will vote on the Inwood rezoning.
Affordable Housing
Report: Thousands of Affordable Units Could Go Market-Rate as Tax Credit Deals Lapse
Jarrett Murphy |
A new set of threats to affordable housing is looming in New York City, thanks to the Trump administration, the real-estate market and time itself.
Development
The Big Empty: Stringer & City Argue Over Math of Vacant Lots
Greis Torres |
The comptroller says tens of thousands of units of affordable housing could be built on land the city controls. But HPD says that’s a hollow argument.
