Overview

Overview

ANHD’s Rezoning Technical Assistance program provides strategic and technical support for community groups engaged in campaigns around large-scale rezonings. The language and processes of rezonings are often confusing, disempowering, and exclusionary. ANHD’s work helps ensure that marginalized community members have the knowledge and power to exert control over land use decisions and their impacts.

The Project

When residents of marginalized communities have control over land use decisions, the future of their neighborhood can be shaped by the needs and priorities of those who live there instead of by the dictates of real estate developers and the private market.

ANHD works toprovide community groups with the data, policy, political and procedural knowledge and tools they need to engage the City and our elected representatives on an equal footing to advance their own local vision for their communities.

The neighborhoods we have worked in include East New York, Jerome Avenue, Gowanus, Stapleton, Bushwick, Chinatown/Two Bridges, Southern Boulevard, and Long Island City – and we continue to seek to provide support wherever possible.

News

Recent Blogs and Media

Blog
January 19, 2023
ANHD’s Equitable Development Data Explorer Training Modules
ANHD’s video modules and activities on how to use the City’s Equitable Development Data Explorer (EDDE) will help New Yorkers understand and advocate for their community needs when it comes to affordable housing, capital investment, and land use.
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Press Release
July 27, 2021
Neighborhood Rezonings in Low-Income, BIPOC Areas Are Not an Effective Affordable Housing Strategy
ANHD Report Finds Not All Housing Units Are Created Equal
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News Clip
February 18, 2021
Here Comes Myrtle Point: Ridgewood's New Tower To Be Its Tallest
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Chris Walters
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Resources

Related Resources

Not All Housing Units Are Created Equal
A Report on the Relationship Between Rezonings, Affordable Housing, & Racial Equity in New York City
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Comments on the Draft Scope of Work for the Proposed Bushwick Rezoning (Bushwick Neighborhood Plan)
In my comments today I want to echo the demand of neighborhood residents and stakeholders in stating that the Bushwick Community Plan’s zoning proposal must be studied as an alternative in the EIS.
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Comments to the Subcommittee on Zoning & Franchises on the Proposed Bay Street Corridor Rezoning
In offering my testimony today I want to echo the vital concerns raised by community members asking who this rezoning will actually serve.
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Testimony of Emily Goldstein Before the New York City Council Committee on Land Use Regarding CEQR
The CEQR methodology incorrectly assumes that many populations, including rent stabilized tenants, face no risk of displacement.
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Comments to the City Planning Commission on the Proposed Bay Street Corridor Rezoning
ANHD echos the vital concerns raised by community members asking who this rezoning will actually serve and how to fix it.
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NYC Industrial Action Plan - 3 Years Later Progress Report
Three years since the Industrial Action Plan announcement, the Industrial Jobs Coalition grades the Administration’s progress on the 10-point agenda
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CASA's New White Paper Gets to the Heart of The Displacement Debate
Last week, Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA) released a powerful new white paper, “Resisting Displacement in the Southwest Bronx.” Drawing on research, their own organizing experience and...
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Who's Left Out When We Don’t Serve 30% AMI?
ANHD’s new map shows the areas where MIH serving below 40% AMI is most critical for the local residents
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Testimony of Barika X. Williams (ANHD staff) Before the New York City Council Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises Regarding the Proposed “Mandatory Inclusionary Housing” Text Amendment
Testimony calling on the City Council to revise the Administration's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing proposal to address the deeper affordability levels needed to meet the full range of incomes and neighborhoods across the City.
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