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The Association for Neighborhood Housing & Development, or ANHD—founded in the 1970s to reclaim the growing number of burned and abandoned apartment buildings across the city— turns 50 this year.…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Jun 2024

Government Health Housing and Homelessness

Bonnie Brower and the Art of Unfiltered Advocacy

Harry DeRienzo, president emeritus and special advisor at the Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, reflects on the legacy of New York City housing organizer and advocate Bonnie Brower, who passed…

ByHarry DeRienzo 1Comment

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Jan 2018

Housing and Homelessness In Depth

The NYC Community Land Trust Movement Wants to Go Big

Large and small organizations have envisioned ways that, with the right resources and city policies, the city’s nascent community land trusts could come to encompass thousands of apartments.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 3Comments

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Apr 2017

Housing and Homelessness

Community Developers Say City’s Housing Plan Leaves Them Behind

Not-for-profit developers say the city’s focus on producing more units faster and cheaper is sidelining the mission to create housing that neighborhoods actually welcome.

ByJarrett Murphy 6Comments

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Feb 2017

Uncategorized

CityViews: ‘As of Right’ and Wrong as Developers Target Morningside Heights

‘We’re not offering a building like for the billionaires on 57th Street,’ the developer explained. ‘We’ll have apartments at $2 million up to maybe $5 million.’ Bargains like that threaten…

ByRobert F. Stern 1Comment

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Feb 2017

Housing and Homelessness

Backers of Community Land Trusts Seek to Broaden Support

Energized that the city is expressing interest in the model of community-based, nonprofit ownership of land for affordable housing and other uses, groups who back the approach are trying to…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

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Oct 2014

Housing and Homelessness News

City Revamping its Affordable Housing Toolkit

Mayor de Blasio’s housing plan was full of ambition and ideas. Achieving them will require streamlining and rearranging the city’s housing development system, says HPD’s commissioner.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Sep 2014

Housing and Homelessness

Housing Plan Targets Vacant Lots; Some Neighbors Leery

The administration sees city-owned vacant lots as potential sites for affordable housing. Communities that use—or hope to use—those parcels for gardens see them as something else.

ByAdam Wisnieski 0Comments

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Apr 2014

Housing and Homelessness

Brooklyn Tenants Battle Gentrification on Many Fronts

You can debate whether gentrification is good or bad for neighborhoods. But it’s clear that many low-income tenants aren’t simply sitting and waiting to be pushed out of their homes.

ByIan Marsh 0Comments

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Apr 2014

Housing and Homelessness

Mixed Views of Gentrification's Threat in East New York

The area’s improvement—thanks to community action and city policy—is undeniable. What’s debated is whether the same displacement seen in Bed-Stuy and Bushwick is headed that way.

ByGerard Flynn 0Comments

Ask a Housing Expert: What Does 50 Years of Community Development Look Like?

Bonnie Brower and the Art of Unfiltered Advocacy

The NYC Community Land Trust Movement Wants to Go Big

Community Developers Say City’s Housing Plan Leaves Them Behind

CityViews: ‘As of Right’ and Wrong as Developers Target Morningside Heights

Backers of Community Land Trusts Seek to Broaden Support

City Revamping its Affordable Housing Toolkit

Housing Plan Targets Vacant Lots; Some Neighbors Leery

Brooklyn Tenants Battle Gentrification on Many Fronts

Mixed Views of Gentrification's Threat in East New York

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