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HPD is currently in the midst of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's Housing New York initiative to create and preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing by 2026. By the end of 2021, the City of New York financed more than 200,000 affordable homes since 2014, breaking the all-time record previously set by former Mayor Ed Koch . [ 3 ]
The Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB), formed in 1974, is a city-wide non-profit housing and tenant advocacy group in New York City. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] : 253, 258, 261–264 [ 5 ] UHAB was originally sponsored by the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine . [ 6 ]
The Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD) is the mayoral agency responsible for developing and maintaining the city's stock of affordable housing. The Human Resources Administration (Department of Social Services; HRA/DSS) is the mayoral agency in charge of the majority of the city's social services programs.
From November 2013 until January 2016, the NYC Housing, Preservation and Development agency, which is responsible for oversight of the city’s vast stock of multi-unit residential buildings, issued more than 10,000 violations for dangerous lead paint conditions in units with children under the age of six, the age group most at risk of ingesting lead paint.
There was a concern in the 1970s that residential housing construction was declining as people moved from New York City to the suburbs. [8] In response to this trend, the state passed the original 421-a tax exemption program in 1971, with the goal of encouraging the construction of more residential housing in the city. [9]
New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), which is responsible for oversight of the city’s vast stock of multi-unit residential buildings, started keeping a permanent online database of housing and maintenance code violations in November 2013. From that month through January 2016, HPD issued more than 10,000 ...
In 2007, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), in cooperation with Breaking Ground began construction on a $59 million, 99,000-square-foot (9,200 m 2) supportive housing complex at 133 Pitt Street on the Lower East Side that will be Manhattan's first such LEED Silver development. Designed by Kiss + Cathcart ...
Carmel Place is a nine-story apartment building at 335 East 27th Street in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Completed in 2016, it was New York City's first microapartment building. The project won a competition sponsored by the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development to design, construct and ...