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Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) retweeted
5 Nov 2024
I was happy to talk to @JeanmarieEvelly of @CityLimitsNews about the implications of the candidates’ announced housing agendas. So much at stake on this subject alone!
(& this doesn’t even account for all the damage that would be caused by gutting HUD and other federal agencies)
5 Nov 2024
Beyond their big-ticket campaign promises, the next president could have substantial impact on housing in New York, from shaping tax incentives that make it easier to build new homes to federal resources for NYCHA and code enforcement programs. bit.ly/4fxMtdk
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Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) retweeted
22 Oct 2024
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Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) retweeted
22 Oct 2024
When I was a project manager in @NYCHousing’s Special Needs Housing, Amie Gross was an architect working for one of the nonprofits building supportive housing. She waited more than 10 hours to testify in support of #CityofYes zoning changes. Go Amie!
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Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) retweeted
22 Oct 2024
“I’d like to urge the Council to adhere to the vision of fair housing that @NYCSpeakerAdams has so eloquently articulated. Every neighborhood must fulfill its responsibility in meeting our housing needs" says @hslatkin of @CHPCny
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Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) retweeted
21 Oct 2024
The #CityofYes for Housing Opportunity proposal resonates with New Yorkers because it responds to the housing issues we see all around us.
It’s a big tent. Now it’s time to turn it into permanent homes.
Read my op-ed in today’s @NYDailyNews:
nydailynews.com/2024/10/21/c…
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Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) retweeted
16 Oct 2024
@theNYHC @chpcny @OpenPlans @Enterprise_NYC @FACbrooklyn @nyc_base @stnicksalliance @Liifund @PhippsNY @designingthewe @NYSAFAH @RegionalPlan @RobinHoodNYC @TrinityChrchNYC @interfaithassem @theNetworkNY @AIA_NewYork will be there to say #yestohousing!
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Great to see 2023 CHPC Insight Award recipient @JerusalemDemsas talking about her latest!
15 Oct 2024
We’re here at @HousingWorks Bookstore discussing the housing crisis with @JerusalemDemsas and our Executive Director @AnnemarieGray!
ALT Jerusalem Demsas and Annemarie Gray at Housing Works Bookstore
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Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) retweeted
29 Sep 2024
“We are facing a generational housing crisis. The only solution is to build more and make it easier, not harder, for homeowners to join forces with government in addressing this crisis head on.”
TY @AARPNY and @NYCAging Commish for this spot-on op-Ed.
amny.com/opinion/aarp-is-for…
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New Yorkers work hard for their housing. But restrictive zoning and other regulations too often don't allow housing to work for them.
Accessory units are one important way we can let New Yorkers adapt housing to better meet their needs.
#YestoHousing
25 Sep 2024
We desperately need more housing.
One brilliant way to get more is the @DanGarodnick proposal that would let you convert your garage or basement into a small apartment for mom dad.
Read all about it here:
nydailynews.com/2024/09/25/a…
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Black homeowners are more likely to be at risk of foreclosure on their homes.
The ability to earn rental income legally - and providing someone else with a home in your rental unit! - can support struggling homeowners. /4
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Today we have
an increasing number of people - and of people of color -
looking to live in low-density neighborhoods
that are stuck with restrictive zoning left by the prior generation of homeowners
and adding less housing than shrinking cities like Detroit. /7
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But if you’re still looking for reasons why the #CityofYes zoning reforms for housing are needed, here is a thread with some more:
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16 Sep 2024
Shortly after the July hearing, the @NYDailyNews editorial board came out in favor of #CItyOfYes and its “common-sense steps” to address our housing shortage, like re-legalizing small apartment buildings & lifting parking mandates:
nydailynews.com/2024/07/12/s…
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You sometimes hear “we don’t need more housing in my neighborhood.” This may be a good sign that “we” actually do.
NYC’s low-density districts are doing less to support the needs of their growing populations - families w/ kids, young adults, seniors - than anywhere. ANYWHERE. /1
DID YOU KNOW: since 2010, NYC’s low-density districts have produced less housing per capita than any major US city, including Detroit? /5
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For instance, Black homeowners rely on income or living space in basements at far higher rates than do white homeowners:
chpcny.org/publication/home-…
But zoning and other regulations often ban or impose wildly expensive conditions on this. /3
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Single-family zoning first emerged as a backdoor substitute for racial covenants and other explicit tools of exclusion.
Today restrictive zoning still disproportionately harms populations of color, although in somewhat different ways. /3
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It’s not a total accident that NYC’s low-density neighborhoods have restrictive zoning that makes new housing rare or impossible.
A campaign of downzoning, sometimes fueled by an impulse to limit growth of immigrant communities, helped create it.
chpcny.org/publication/unpla…
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CHPC’s @hslatkin notes that this legal challenge - had it been successful - would have created a disruption to the land use process akin to “shutting down an entire train line to do track repairs…. A citywide zoning change could stop the city’s land use process.
7 Sep 2024
The Daily Dirt: Group says City of Yes means “no” for Brooklyn project
therealdeal.com/new-york/202…
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“That premise is pretty insidious because it is not just a way to slow down this project, but it makes it pretty much impossible to update the zoning citywide.”
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