The key affordable-housing program faces privatization pressures, repair issues and controversies over shareholder elections—but tenants, the City Council and HPD disagree about who is in a position to solve them.
The PA’s investigation found that Neighborhood Homes failed a group of potential home-buyers in Crown Heights. The program is winding down, but the findings could shape discussions about new affordable-housing…
The East Harlem Neighborhood Plan, a product of nearly ten (10) months of community-based planning efforts, is now out. Community Voices Heard (CVH), a membership organization of low-income families…
The 12-1 vote by the City Planning Commission reflected all the contours of the larger debate over the de Blasio housing plan: Some lauded the city’s efforts to serve low-income…
The president’s 2017 budget proposal includes a proposal to end child homelessness. The proposal will go nowhere—even though it’s entirely doable and cheaper than what we are doing now.
“Simply put, inviting significantly more building in low-income communities without guarantees that most or all of the new housing will be affordable to current residents may increase, not reduce, the…