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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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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.

EXCLUSIVE: Pushback on NYCHA parking feehike 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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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Bill de Blasio, 2 years into term, finds obstacles blocking his vows ofaffordable 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.

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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.

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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.

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 ofaffordable housing.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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Paula Gilbert

ExecutiveDirector

Neighborhood Preservation Coalition of NYS, Inc.

100 State Street, Suite 710

Albany, NY 12207

(518) 432-6757

(518) 432-6758 fax

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