September
2022
23
Tenant Takeover: How New Yorkers are Organizing for Community and Resident Control
Learn how New Yorkers are organizing to collectively bring housing under community control.
community land trusts
August
2022
25
City & State NY: As Homeownership Rates Decline in New York City, Could Community Land Trusts be an Answer?
City & State NY — Over the past decade in New York City, a housing shortage, increased investor activity and quickly rising home prices have exacerbated the affordable housing crisis. Today, there are almost no apartments with a monthly rent below $1,500 in the city. Housing advocates and policymakers have been pushing the city to invest in different housing models that prioritize affordability over profit.
August
2022
22
WBAI’s Housing Notebook: Tenant Control
Housing Notebook — Our CLT Campaign Organizer Elise Goldin joins Claudia Waterton, a Bronx tenant association president, and host Scott Sommer to discuss tenant-controlled housing and the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA).
August
2022
11
City Limits: Legislation Would Give Nonprofits First Crack at Developing NYC-Owned Land
City Limits — New York City community land trusts and nonprofit developers could get the first crack at securing publicly-owned land for affordable housing under a new bill introduced by Brooklyn Councilmember Lincoln Restler Thursday.
June
2022
2
Brownstoner: Community Land Trust Wants to Turn NYPD Parking Lots Into Affordable Housing. Can They?
Brownstoner — “We demand — we ain’t asking no more — we demand that HPD turn this big, gigantic lot over to the community. Give it to the East New York Community Land Trust, let us build on it what the community needs, not free parking for the NYPD.”
June
2022
1
To Keep Housing Affordable, Support Community Land Trusts
In her State of the City address last week, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams called for an additional $4 billion in next year’s City budget for affordable housing, nearly tripling Mayor Eric Adams’ proposed investment.
April
2022
19
City Limits: Community Land Trusts Would Get First Dibs at Buying Properties Under Revised Council Bill
City Limits — The New York City Council is once again considering a bill to curb speculation by giving nonprofits and community land trusts first dibs on residential properties that come up for sale.
April
2022
14
Community Groups, Elected Officials Rally at City Hall for Community Land Trust Funding, Legislation to Stabilize Housing and Combat Speculation
Community and housing activists joined Council Member Carlina Rivera and Council Member Sandy Nurse, Comptroller Brad Lander, and other elected officials at a rally at City Hall to call for increased support for community land trusts (CLTs), to shield land and housing from speculation in the wake of the pandemic. Groups called for strong public investment in CLTs and policymaking to stabilize housing and promote a just recovery in Black and brown neighborhoods hardest-hit by the COVID-19 crisis.
March
2022
14
Testimony to NYC Council Committee on Housing & Buildings, Preliminary Budget Hearing for FY2023
I’m pleased to testify today about community land trusts (CLTs), and to urge the Committee to support $3 million in FY2023 funding for the Citywide CLT Initiative. New Economy Project further urges the Committee to advance legislation to strengthen CLTs and expand non-speculative, community- and tenant-controlled housing. In the wake of the pandemic, public investment in CLTs and other forms of social housing will be critical to stabilize housing, combat speculation, and promote a just recovery in low income and Black and brown neighborhoods hardest-hit by the COVID-19 crisis.
March
2022
1
Harlem World: Activists And Electeds Cheer End Of The Rudy Giuliani Created NYC Tax Lien Sale
Harlem World — Today, activists and elected advocates gathered on the steps of City Hall to celebrate the end of the Rudy Giuliani-created Lien Sale program. Since 1996, New York City has been selling the right to collect delinquent property tax and water debt at a discount to a privately administered hedge fund-backed Lien Trust.