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City Of New York Awarded $15 Million Federal Grant To Address Youth Homelessness

Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced the City of New York has been awarded a $15 million grant as part of the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP). Continue reading

Harlem Rep. Espaillat Applauds Inclusion Of Key Priorities In Fiscal Year 2022 Transportation-HUD Appropriations Bill

Harlem Rep. Adriano Espaillat delivered the following remarks during the full House Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development (THUD) markup.Continue reading

Carthage Real Estate Advisors And Urban American Management Join Forces To Develop Equitable Housing

Carthage Real Estate Advisors and Urban American Management are excited to announce they are teaming up to form a joint venture. Continue reading

President Joe Biden Calls On HUD To Address Racial Equity From Harlem To Hawaii

President Joe Biden signed several new executive orders on Tuesday that address racial equity,Continue reading

Defining Affordable Housing From Harlem To Hollywood

Last week we posted the article The City’s ‘Unaffordable’ Affordable Housing Program In East Harlem, according to a recent study by Harvard University, 10.9 million renters (one in four) spend more than half of their income on housing. Continue reading

Harlem’s Espaillat Statement In Opposition To Proposed Changes To HUD’s Use Of Disparate Impact

Harlem Congressional member Adriano Espaillat, joined by members of the New York congressional delegation and advocates,Continue reading

A New HUD Rule Could Force Thousands Of Harlemites And Others From Public Housing

A Trump administration proposal to strip public housing subsidies from undocumented immigrant families would affect thousands of New Yorkers, according to the federal agency pushing it reports our source.Continue reading

Harlem Rep. Adriano Espaillat Statement On Agreement Between NYCHA And HUD

Today, Representative Adriano Espaillat issued the following statement regarding the announcement by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA):Continue reading

Harlem Rep. Espaillat Votes To Protect NY Families And To Re-Open The Departments Of Transportation And HUD

Today, Harlem Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) joined House Democrats to pass the FY 2019 Transportation and Housing and Urban Development appropriations bills to re-open these two essential government agencies.Continue reading

NY State Joins Anti-Segregation Lawsuit Against Donald Trump Administrations HUD

Curb reports that Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced plans to include New York State in a lawsuit filed against the federal government for its failure to enforce the Fair Housing Act. Continue reading

Harlem Rep. Espaillat Leads NYC Delegation To Rebuke HUD Rent Increases (Spanish)

Representative Adriano Espaillat leads the Democratic Members of the New York City congressional delegation in a letter in opposition to the newly released “Making Affordable Housing Work Act” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Secretary Ben Carson.Continue reading

HUD Plans To Impose Work Requirement And Spike Rents From Harlem To Hollywood

About half of the 4.7 million low-income Americans who receive federal assistance to help them afford housing would get a rent increase and many would be subject to work requirements as part of a major overhaul of the subsidy program the Trump administration has proposed says source.Continue reading

de Blasio Adminisration Outlines NYCHA Heating Projects Awaiting State’s New $250M Commitment

Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development Alicia Glen (pictured) today issued a letter to New York State Budget Director Robert Mujicia urging the Governor to release the $250 million dedicated in the State’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget.Continue reading

Harlem Rep Espaillat Announces Increase In Federal Public Housing Capital Funding

Representative Adriano Espaillat released the following statement regarding the increase to federal funding allocated for HUD, New York housing and NYCHA.Continue reading

Coalition Urges HUD To Maintain Critical Fair Housing Tool From Harlem To Hollywood

Seventy-six national civil rights, faith-based, affordable housing, and other organizations have voiced their strong opposition to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s headed by Secretary Ben Carson sudden decision to effectively suspend the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation.Continue reading