The ANHD Blog raises the profile of our issues, and educates our member groups, city decision makers, and the general public on our core issue areas. The ANHD Blog offers sharp, timely and effective commentary on key public policy issues, as well as our work and the work of our member groups.
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The ANHD Blog raises the profile of our issues, and educates our member groups, city decision makers, and the general public on our core issue areas. The ANHD Blog offers sharp, timely and effective commentary on key public policy issues, as well as our work and the work of our member groups.
All of our blogs are sorted based on the issues, projects, special tags, and dates they are associated with, and you can use the dropdowns below to filter through our blogs based on these tags. Additionally, you can do a general search through our blog, using the search bar the right. If you can’t find what you are looking for, email comms@anhd.org.
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January 21, 2016
A January 19th New York Times’ article– With Plan for Greenpoint Hospital, Neighbors May Finally Get Their Way– examines the long and difficult history of a major affordable housing development site in Williamsburg. The story behind this hulking, abandoned hospital site dates back to the early 1970s, when the neighborhood worked to turn the tide of abandonment and decay in their embattled community.
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January 15, 2016
"The failure to reach a deal to continue the 421a developer tax break will have a significant impact on the construction of new market-rate housing. It will also have a substantial impact on Mayor de Blasio's laudable affordable housing development housing goals."
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January 14, 2016
Last week, a Crain's story covered a little known special permit application for a 480,000-square-foot office building in the Greenpoint/Williamsburg Industrial Business Zone. This application at 25 Kent Avenue has much broader implications, and is the start of a new citywide zoning text amendment to create a new model of a mixed use industrial / commercial district.
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January 8, 2016
An overflow crowd packed into Brooklyn Borough Hall today for the City Planning Commission's public hearing on the de Blasio Administration's proposal to rezone East New York/Cypress Hills. This is the first major rezoning of the de Blasio era, and the first concrete test of the comprehensive, neighborhood-based planning approach that this Administration has committed to taking.
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December 16, 2015
Today's dramatic City Planning Commission hearing on the de Blasio zoning proposals leads us to the crucial next step in the land-use process when the City Council takes up its role to negotiate any final land use text before their vote early in early 2016. The two City proposed zoning programs - Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) and Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA) - are centerpieces of the de Blasio housing agenda.
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December 11, 2015
ANHD has been the leading organization calling for an MIH policy because housing advocates and community residents see MIH as an opportunity to put in place a new baseline where every neighborhood and site that is upzoned will include guaranteed affordable housing that truly meets the needs of the local community. But for many ANHD member-groups, the Administration's current MIH proposal misses the mark.
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November 16, 2015
The City recently released its long awaited Mandatory Inclusionary Housing policy (MIH), a centerpiece of the de Blasio housing agenda. Unfortunately, the de Blasio Administration's current MIH proposal misses the opportunity to create the guaranteed, truly affordable housing that many neighborhoods are demanding.
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November 13, 2015
The Furman Center this week released an important examination of the financial implications of the new 421a real estate tax abatement program. The controversial 421a program was renewed and revised this past summer in Albany.