Affordable Housing
Report: Amid Housing Crisis, NY Must Rethink How Land is Owned
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Authors say that the nation’s current housing system fails communities and that political leaders must bring alternative models to scale.
Affordable Housing
City Dishes Inwood Library Details, Espaillat Sees a ‘Trojan Horse’
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
The city announced its selection of developers for the Inwood library site on Tuesday, two weeks before Community Board 12 will vote on the Inwood rezoning.
community board
Board Deliberates Inwood Rezoning and Community Groups’ Alternatives
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
As Manhattan Community Board 12 considers the city’s proposed rezoning, a number of other neighborhood groups are pushing for an alternative plan.
affordability
The NYC Community Land Trust Movement Wants to Go Big
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Large and small organizations have envisioned ways that, with the right resources and city policies, the city’s nascent community land trusts could come to encompass thousands of apartments.
City Council
Council Passes Key Housing Bills at Busy Last Meeting
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
A bill codifying community land trusts into city law, and two others that are part of the Housing Not Warehousing Act, were among the bills that came up for a vote at the Council’s last session Tuesday.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: Community Land Trusts are a Path to Affordable Homeownership
Donovan Richards |
‘CLTs achieve a delicate balance of providing families with the opportunities of homeownership, like building equity and providing stability, while also protecting public resources in perpetuity.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: De Blasio Admin’s Move On Land Trusts Reflects Good Idea, Great Organizing
Sam Miller and Arvernetta Henry |
‘The city is embracing and supporting this radical model that will allow community members to control their own neighborhoods, prevent speculation, incubate community-owned businesses, and keep housing permanently affordable to its poorest residents.’
Affordable Housing
City Dips Toe Into Funding Community Land Trusts
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
The city will distribute a $1.65 million grant from Enterprise Community Partners to three community land trusts and to fund a technical assistance program to assist many new ones.
Brooklyn
Stand-Up Desk Video: Caroline Nagy on the Ongoing Foreclosure Crisis
Jarrett Murphy |
Not that foreclosure is the only thing city homeowners, or policymakers, have to worry about.
Housing and Homelessness
From Georgia to NYC: The Civil Rights Roots of Community Land Trusts
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
A new documentary looks at the rise, fall and rebirth of Georgia’s New Communities, Inc., which aimed to empower Black sharecroppers in the 1960s but might offer lessons for urban dwellers of today.
