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Its mission is to expand affordable housing opportunities for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers. HCR consists of several state agencies and corporations: the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR), the New York State Housing Finance Agency (HFA), the State of New York Mortgage Agency (SONYMA).
The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY / ˈ d æ z n iː /) provides construction, financing, and allied services which serve the public good of New York State. More specifically, as a New York State public-benefit corporation, DASNY provides services for public and non-proprietary (i.e., nonprofit) private universities in New ...
Co-op city in the Bronx, a Mitchell–Lama development [1]. The Mitchell–Lama Housing Program is a non-subsidy governmental housing guarantee in the state of New York.It was sponsored by New York State Senator MacNeil Mitchell and Assemblyman Alfred A. Lama and signed into law in 1955.
Housing in New York takes a variety of forms, from single-family homes to apartment complexes. New York had a homeownership rate of 50.7% in 2017. [ 1 ] Issues related to housing in New York include homeownership , affordable housing , housing insecurity , zoning , and homelessness .
The State Housing Law of 1926 created the State Board of Housing. [5] [6] The law was reenacted in 1927 to create the Bureau of Housing. [7] Article XVIII on housing was added to the New York Constitution effective 1 January 1939. [8] The Division of Housing was continued in 1939 with the enactment of the Public Housing Law.
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Under this law, the city of New York is able to sell buildings directly to tenant or community groups to provide low-income housing. Many HDFCs were created through a process of co-op conversion of a foreclosed, city-owned property. As of 2008, over 1,000 HDFC cooperatives have been developed in the city. [1]
The 421-a tax exemption is a property tax exemption in the U.S. state of New York that is given to real-estate developers for building new multifamily residential housing buildings in New York City. As currently written, the program also focuses on promoting affordable housing in the most densely populated areas of New York City. The exemption ...