The city has proposed new rules to protect the long-term affordability of Housing Development Fund Corporations (HDFCs), but some shareholders say the rules would rob them of well-deserved equity.
In many neighborhoods facing rezoning, the concern is that too few low-income units will be required. Some Far Rockaways community board members are worried that an influx of poor people will harm the local economy.
‘From Sunnyside to Sunset Park, residents continue to flood community board meetings to protest what they see as a limitation of resources that belong to them, like city-subsidized parking and access to the skyline.’
The number of units in the ten-year housing plan that target families making below $40,800 will be increased from 20 to 25 percent.
From Boston to Portland and in places like Vancouver and Sydney, local governments are taking aggressive steps to prevent development that uproots people of limited means.
A new CB11 task force will take the lead on responding to the city’s rezoning plan, which has supporters and critics.
Gotham Gazette and City Limits discuss the housing policy questions New York City is facing as a new president and administration take power.
From homeownership to public housing, tax credits to local hiring, there are more questions than answers so far about what the Trump presidency will mean to housing policies that affect New York.
Un fideicomiso inmobiliario comunitario (en inglés “community land trust”, o CLT) es un modelo de propiedad sin fines de lucro en el que una junta comunitaria administra el uso del terreno siguiendo ciertas regulaciones que garantizan la asequibilidad permanente del inmueble alquilado o vendido en ese terreno.
Reversing a long-standing policy that had been criticized for splitting up or uprooting families, the public housing authority is permitting some people to return to NYCHA housing after their sentences. So far, results have been very positive.
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