Andrew Cuomo giving his speech resigning as governor in August 2021.
Each Friday, City Limits rounds up the latest news on housing, land use and homelessness. Catch up on what you might have missed here.
Welcome to “What Happened in NYC Housing This Week?” where we compile the latest local news about housing, land use and homelessness. Know of a story we should include in next week’s roundup? Email us.
ICYMI, from City Limits:
“We’ve already received reports of denials [of housing applications] based on conviction records, highlighting the urgent need for proactive education that a properly funded CCHR could provide. Without sufficient resources, the CCHR’s inability to effectively educate and enforce the FCHA will have dire consequences.” Read the oped here.
“It’s clear we need to prove to New Yorkers that new housing in their neighborhoods will strengthen communities. We can do so by passing the Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act. Under this bill, churches, synagogues, mosques and other faith-based institutions would be able to override local zoning rules to construct affordable housing on their underused land.” Read the oped here.
“Supportive housing offers on-site services like psychiatric care, medication management and case management — services that are essential for keeping residents housed long-term. SROs are a cost-effective, scalable model that could provide immediate relief for those who desperately need a stable place to live.” Read the oped here.
ICYMI, from other local newsrooms:
Mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo’s housing plan released on Saturday is “fairly unremarkable” except for the garbled part about appointing “Rent Guidelines Board members who will make decisions bbjectively” (sic) that appears to have been written with the help of ChatGPT, Hell Gate reports. (Cuomo’s staff blames faulty voice recognition software.)
Even after 64 New York City Housing Authority employees were arrested on charges of taking cash bribes from vendors for public housing repairs, companies that participated in the bribery conspiracy are continuing to rake in millions of dollars of NYCHA contracts, The City reports.
Fines for landlord-hired real estate brokers who charge tenants fees in violation of the city’s new ban set to go into effect in June would be far less than brokers stand to make on the fees themselves, which makes for “not much of a deterrent,” Curbed reports.
The Trump administration is considering slashing Section 8 and other federal housing vouchers — which currently aid 2.3 million low-income families, and are only a fraction of what’s needed — and replacing them with “a more limited system of housing grants,” The New York Times reports.
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