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    City Announces Affordable Housing Tool Amid Gap in Capital Budget

    Mayor  •  Affordable Housing  •  Citywide

    The New NYC Housing Connect Image Credit: HPD

    NYC Housing Connect tool intends to make affordable housing searches a more user-friendly experience. On June 16, 2020, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the launch of “NYC Housing Connect,” an online tool for finding and applying for affordable housing. The new system provides upgrades from its predecessor through a collaborative effort by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, user-design experts and collected public feedback.

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    Tags : affordable housing, capital budget, HPD, louise carroll, Mayor Bill de Blasio
    Date: 06/29/2020
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    City Secures Affordable Housing for Over 16,000 Households

    Department of Housing Preservation & Development  •  Affordable Housing  •  Citywide

    Co-Op City, Bronx. Image Credit: NYC HPD

    The City has now produced more than 164,000 units or more than 50 percent of the Mayor’s Housing plan to create 300,000 affordable homes by 2026. On April 3, 2020, Housing Preservation and Development announced the preservation of 16,083 affordable homes for New Yorkers. (more…)

    Tags : affordable housing, Department of Housing Preservation and Development
    Date: 04/23/2020
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    Comptroller Stringer Releases Plan to Address City’s Affordable Housing Problems

    Comptroller's Office  •  Affordable Housing  •  Citywide

    Comptroller Stringer announces plan to address City’s growing affordable housing crisis. Image Credit: Susan Watts/Office of New York City Comptroller

    Universal Affordable Housing would require 25 percent permanently low-income affordable housing in all new development with ten or more units. On January 29, 2020, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer announced a citywide housing strategy to fundamentally realign the City’s approach to the housing crisis. The strategy, coined Housing We Need, will include a universal requirement for 25 percent permanently low-income affordable housing in all as-of-right developments with at least ten units. (more…)

    Tags : 421-a, affordable housing, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, tax subsidies
    Date: 02/14/2020
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    City Planning Approves Application to Convert Former Hotel Building to Affordable Housing

    City Planning Commission  •  Affordable Housing  •  DUMBO, Brooklyn

    90 Sands Street Building/Image Credit: Breaking Ground/CPC

    The conversion of the former Watchtower hotel will bring 508 residential units to DUMBO, Brooklyn. On February 19, 2020, the City Planning Commission approved an application to rezone a block in DUMBO, Brooklyn from a light manufacturing district to a mixed-use residential and commercial district. The block is bounded by High Street to the north, Sands Street to the south, Jay Street to the east, and Pearl Street to the west. The rezoning would facilitate the conversion of a 29-story former hotel building at 90 Sands Street to a mixed-use residential, commercial, and community facility building. The applicant does not have plans to demolish the existing building or make changes to the building’s height or bulk. The applicant only plans to convert the existing hotel rooms into apartment units. After conversion, the building will have a total of 415 studios and 93 one-bedroom units.

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    Tags : 90 Sands Street, Breaking Ground, Brooklyn, City Planning Commission, Downtown Brooklyn, dumbo
    Date: 02/05/2020
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    Mayor’s Office Announces Conversion of Temporary Homeless Shelters into Permanent Affordable Housing

    Mayor  •  Affordable Housing  •  Citywide

    Mayor Bill de Blasio. Image credit: CityLand

    The conversion is another step in the City’s plan to address the homelessness crisis. On November 19, 2019, the Mayor’s Office announced its transition into the second phase of a plan to convert temporary homeless shelters into permanently affordable housing units. According to the Mayor’s Office, this plan will help not-for-profit housing developers acquire and rehabilitate an additional 14 residential “cluster site” buildings, currently being used to house homeless families, and convert them into over 200 permanent affordable housing units for the homeless. (more…)

    Tags : homelessness, permanent affordable housing
    Date: 12/05/2019
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