community land trusts
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Community Groups, Tenants, and Electeds Rally at City Hall for Legislation, Funding to Expand Community Land Trusts
In the wake of Albany’s failure to address the affordable housing crisis, more than 50 community, housing, and environmental justice groups and elected officials gathered at City Hall Park to call on the City to enact the Community Land Act, a slate of bills to expand community control of land and permanently-affordable housing in low-income Black…
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110+ Groups Call on Mayor and City Council Speaker to Address Affordability Crisis in Wake of State Inaction on Housing
A coalition of 113 community and affordable housing groups delivered a letter to New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and Mayor Eric Adams, urging them to take bold and immediate action to address the city’s affordability crisis. Citing the state’s failure to strengthen tenant protections or pass other housing justice measures in the recent…
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City Limits: Groups Tell Speaker Adams: Time is Now for ‘Social Housing’ Bills
City Limits — Back in February, before housing policy fizzled out of state budget negotiations, the New York City Council held a hearing on bills aimed at boosting the supply of homes accessible to, and controlled by, low-income New Yorkers.
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Joint Letter to Mayor Adams and Speaker Adams in Support of the Community Land Act
The undersigned 113 organizations call on you to enact the Community Land Act, an urgently-needed set of bills that gives community land trusts (CLTs) and other nonprofits tools to develop and preserve permanently-affordable housing, community and commercial space, and other neighborhood assets. By taking land off the speculative market, CLTs protect public investment in affordable…
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NYN Media: New York City Council Pushes Affordable Housing Package
NYN Media — With over half of New York City tenants spending nearly a third of their income on rent, affordable housing is crucial to ensuring a safe future for New Yorkers. That’s why advocates in have rallied and thrown their support behind the Community Land Act, a package of bills before the New York City…
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CLTs Gaining Ground in NYC
Over the past fifteen years, New York City’s CLT movement has grown significantly. Amidst the city’s growing housing affordability and homelessness crises, several grassroots movements coalesced around CLTs. We collaborated with the Pratt Center for Community Development to showcase the powerful and growing movement for CLTs in NYC.
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New York Amsterdam News: ‘Public Land For Public Good,’ Say Housing Advocates
New York Amsterdam News — Passionate Black and brown housing advocates from across New York City rallied at City Hall last Thursday to demand the passage of “social housing” bills that would address the city’s housing crisis.
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AM New York: Progressive Pols Press NYC Council to Prioritize Nonprofit Housing Ownership
AM New York — Progressive City Council members have renewed their push for legislation aimed at reducing housing speculation by giving nonprofits and community land trusts priority on purchasing housing that come up for sale.
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Testimony to the New York City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings, in Support of the Community Land Act
The Community Land Act is a bold legislative package that will give CLTs and other nonprofits tools to acquire land for permanently affordable social housing, affordable commercial and community spaces, and other critical needs. We urge the Committee and Council to pass the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, or COPA (Int. 196), Public Land for…
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NYC Comptroller, Public Advocate, Council Members, Advocates Rally for New Vision for Housing
Ahead of City Council oversight hearing, legislation sponsors, NYC Community Land Initiative, Housing Justice For All, and non-profit affordable housing developers made the case for transformative social housing bills