Over the past year, ANHD engaged nearly 100 immigrant small business owners from the Lower East Side, Jackson Heights, and Kingsbridge with the help of our non-profit partners Cooper Square Committee, Chhaya CDC, and Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition. Through interviews, focus groups, and surveys, we empowered participants to share the challenges they face as commercial tenants in rapidly changing neighborhoods. We are now excited to release a report of the key findings and policy recommendations garnered from this program.

Good paying jobs are growing in every borough of the city, but many New Yorkers, especially low wealth New Yorkers of color, remain disconnected from those jobs.

While 57% of jobs in the City are good paying jobs, they are less likely to go to local residents of color. Communities of color are not only excluded from the City’s economic boom, they are at greater risk of displacement as housing costs rise and access to good paying jobs remains limited.

Three years since the Industrial Action Plan announcement, the Industrial Jobs Coalition grades the Administration’s progress on the 10-point agenda.

On the heels of our 8th Annual Community Development Conference—where Governor Lael Brainard, from the Federal Reserve Board delivered our keynote address, the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD) is pleased to release The State of Bank Reinvestment in New York City: 2017.

This history was reconstructed and written by Bonnie Brower, through piecing together dusty, old files and probing the rusty memories of available old-timers.

Co-authored with the NYC Comptroller assessing code enforcement policy and laying out recommendations for change.

An in-depth analysis of existing data sources reveals that the neighborhoods with the most severe housing problems are receiving the worst housing code enforcement.

Comprehensive assessment of the landscape for affordable housing production

An evaluation of the impact of the Homeownership Stabilization Initiative

How NYC can preserve 77,000 affordable apartments that are at risk of losing their HUD subsidies

Recent important housing policy changes, and the strategies that neighborhood-based housing groups used to achieve these victories. The report highlights the role of community organizing and ANHD member groups through the Initiative for Neighborhood and City-Wide Organizing