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On Behalf Of Paula Gilbert, Executive Director
Subject: [NPCNYS-Policy] NPCNYS: Affordable Housing in the News
Affordable Housing in the News
Below are links to news articles on affordable housing issues that impact NYS.
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NPC NYS
Around the State
New York City
System of ridding violent criminals, drug dealers from NYCHA housing is broken — leaving residents to suffer:
study
By GREG B. SMITH
The city Department of Investigation report found that the NYPD routinely fails to tell NYCHA about dozens of
felons committing crimes on public housing property.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/system-ousting-crime-drugs-nycha-housing-broken-article1.2458628
EXCLUSIVE: Pushback on NYCHA parking fee hike for public housing residents
By ERIN DURKIN
Pols are asking NYCHA to put the brakes on a plan to hike parking rates to up to $150 a month for public
housing residents.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/pushback-nycha-parking-fee-hike-article-1.2464894
EXCLUSIVE: Email shows NYCHA may have deliberately kept tenants in the cold
By GREG B. SMITH
When the temperature drops all the way to a bone-chilling 21 degrees overnight and the heater isn’t
functioning, the city Housing Authority has a message for tenants: Deal with it.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-nycha-keeping-tenants-cold-article-1.2465941
Developer preps for potential market downturn with new affordable-housing arm
By JOE ANUTA
Residential developer HAP Investments, known for eye-catching and sometimes pinkish designs by architect
Karim Rashid, is launching an affordable-housing arm, in part to offset a potential downturn in the market.
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20151214/REAL_ESTATE/151219919/developer-preps-for-potentialmarket-downturn-with-new-affordable-housing-arm
Affordable housing could look like this
By ANDREW RICE
Like most everyone else in this scrunched city, my sister Katie has a scary-first-apartment story. It was a
tenement in a remote part of Washington Heights: one bedroom, $1,450 a month, with mice.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/12/affordable-housing-hunters-point-south.html
A plan for more senior affordable housing
By BOBBIE SACKMAN
If there was available land to build affordable senior housing across the city, would you use it? There is. And we
must.
http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/opinion/6037-a-plan-for-more-senior-affordable-housing
Judge blasts NYCHA, agrees to appoint special master to deal with toxic mold in aging apartments
By GREG B. SMITH
A federal judge — fed up with NYCHA’s inability to abate toxic mold in its aging apartments — has agreed to
appoint a special master to enforce a two-year-old pact to fix the problem.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/judge-appoint-special-master-fix-nycha-mold-issuesarticle-1.2466588
Bill de Blasio, 2 years into term, finds obstacles blocking his vows of affordable housing
By GREG B. SMITH
Way back when, then-candidate Bill de Blasio made grand promises about creating record levels of affordable
housing — a vow that captured the electorate's attention and propelled him into City Hall.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obstacles-block-de-blasio-vows-affordable-housing-article1.2478231
EXCLUSIVE: Tenants of NYC three-quarter houses see living conditions worsen under city, state regulations
By KERRY BURKE, STEPHEN REX BROWN
Out of the flophouse, into the fire.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/tenants-three-quarter-houses-living-conditions-worsen-article1.2478247
NYC could allow more ‘micro-apartments’ as 60,000 people apply to live in below-market tiny units in
Manhattan
By REUVEN BLAU
Manhattan's newest mini apartments have generated maximum interest.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-micro-apartments-article-1.2478722
NYC to transform nine community garden plots into 800 apartments for low-income residents
By NATHAN PLACE, JENNIFER FERMINO
The city is yanking up flowers in some community gardens in favor of affordable housing.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/9-nyc-community-gardens-affordable-housing-sites-article1.2481889
Capital District
New plan for county economic development outlined
By PAUL POST
Creation of a Next Wave Center where firms that supply GlobalFoundries could start up and train workers is one
of the key proposals in a new two-year jobs growth and economic development plan.
http://www.saratogian.com/events/20151211/new-plan-for-county-economic-development-outlined
Western
Five projects in Genesee County on list for economic development aid
By HOWARD OWENS
Five projects in Genesee County are receiving more than $2.1 million in state aid, the Finger Lakes
Regional Economic Development Council announced.
http://www.thebatavian.com/howard-b-owens/five-projects-in-genesee-county-on-list-for-economicdevelopment-aid/110135
Agency receives grant to continue home improvement program
By SUBMITTED TO THE POST
Community Action in Self Help, with funding from New York State Homes and Community Renewal’s Affordable
Housing Corporation, recently announced it will continue its Home Improvement Program, which provides
grants to homeowners to assist with repairs that correct health and safety concerns and code violations, as well
as prolong the useful lives of their houses.
http://www.waynepost.com/news/20151230/agency-receives-grant-to-continue-home-improvementprogram
North Country
Plattsburgh unveils new affordable housing complex
By ROSE SPILLMAN
Plattsburgh unveiled a brand new apartment complex Monday that hopes to offer housing at an affordable rate.
http://www.wcax.com/story/30688890/plattsburgh-unveils-new-affordable- housing-complex
________________________________________________
Paula Gilbert
Executive Director
Neighborhood Preservation Coalition of NYS, Inc.
100 State Street, Suite 710
Albany, NY 12207
(518) 432-6757
(518) 432-6758 fax
p.gilbert@npcnys.org
www.npcnys.org
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