Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC)

Policy with a Purpose. CHPC is an independent housing research and education nonprofit working in NYC since 1937. Look for us on the other platform!

[Howard Slatkin @hslatkin]

I was happy to talk to @JeanmarieEvelly of @CityLimitsNews about the implications of the candidates’ announced housing agendas. So much at stake on this subject alone!

(& this doesn’t even account for all the damage that would be caused by gutting HUD and other federal agencies)

[Rachel Fee @RachelFee4NY]

⁦@ChhayaCDC⁩ testifying in support of #CityofYes and ADUs. Great to see ⁦@nyc_base⁩ represented!

[Rachel Fee @RachelFee4NY]

When I was a project manager in ⁦@NYCHousing⁩’s Special Needs Housing, Amie Gross was an architect working for one of the nonprofits building supportive housing. She waited more than 10 hours to testify in support of #CityofYes zoning changes. Go Amie!

[Open New York @OpenNYForAll]

@VickieforNYC @annemariegray @32BJSEIU @RachelFee4NY @theNYHC “I’d like to urge the Council to adhere to the vision of fair housing that @NYCSpeakerAdams has so eloquently articulated. Every neighborhood must fulfill its responsibility in meeting our housing needs" says @hslatkin of @CHPCny

[Howard Slatkin @hslatkin]

The #CityofYes for Housing Opportunity proposal resonates with New Yorkers because it responds to the housing issues we see all around us.

It’s a big tent. Now it’s time to turn it into permanent homes.

Read my op-ed in today’s @NYDailyNews:

https://t.co/2j8Lxaxbgv

[Rachel Fee @RachelFee4NY]

@theNYHC @chpcny @OpenPlans @Enterprise_NYC @FACbrooklyn @nyc_base @stnicksalliance @Liifund @PhippsNY @designingthewe @NYSAFAH @RegionalPlan @RobinHoodNYC @TrinityChrchNYC @interfaithassem @theNetworkNY @AIA_NewYork will be there to say #yestohousing!

[Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) @chpcny]

Great to see 2023 CHPC Insight Award recipient @JerusalemDemsas talking about her latest!

[Open New York @OpenNYForAll]

We’re here at @HousingWorks Bookstore discussing the housing crisis with @JerusalemDemsas and our Executive Director @AnnemarieGray!

[Maria TorresSpringer @MTorresSpringer]

“We are facing a generational housing crisis. The only solution is to build more and make it easier, not harder, for homeowners to join forces with government in addressing this crisis head on.”

TY @AARPNY and @NYCAging Commish for this spot-on op-Ed.

https://t.co/RVP8QeuFDV

[Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) @chpcny]

New Yorkers work hard for their housing. But restrictive zoning and other regulations too often don't allow housing to work for them.

Accessory units are one important way we can let New Yorkers adapt housing to better meet their needs.

#YestoHousing

[David G. Greenfield @NYCGreenfield]

We desperately need more housing.

One brilliant way to get more is the @DanGarodnick proposal that would let you convert your garage or basement into a small apartment for mom + dad.

Read all about it here:

https://t.co/TNxuAODPHh

[Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) @chpcny]

But if you’re still looking for reasons why the #CityofYes zoning reforms for housing are needed, here is a thread with some more:
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[NYC Planning @NYCPlanning]

Shortly after the July hearing, the @NYDailyNews editorial board came out in favor of #CItyOfYes and its “common-sense steps” to address our housing shortage, like re-legalizing small apartment buildings & lifting parking mandates:
https://t.co/wg8b6c0vi2

[Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) @chpcny]

Black homeowners are more likely to be at risk of foreclosure on their homes.

The ability to earn rental income legally - and providing someone else with a home in your rental unit! - can support struggling homeowners. /4

[Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) @chpcny]

Today we have

an increasing number of people - and of people of color -

looking to live in low-density neighborhoods

that are stuck with restrictive zoning left by the prior generation of homeowners

and adding less housing than shrinking cities like Detroit. /7

[Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) @chpcny]

For instance, Black homeowners rely on income or living space in basements at far higher rates than do white homeowners:

https://t.co/DE5VW7p8gF

But zoning and other regulations often ban or impose wildly expensive conditions on this. /3

[Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) @chpcny]

You sometimes hear “we don’t need more housing in my neighborhood.” This may be a good sign that “we” actually do.

NYC’s low-density districts are doing less to support the needs of their growing populations - families w/ kids, young adults, seniors - than anywhere. ANYWHERE. /1

[Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) @chpcny]

DID YOU KNOW: since 2010, NYC’s low-density districts have produced less housing per capita than any major US city, including Detroit? /5

[Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) @chpcny]

Single-family zoning first emerged as a backdoor substitute for racial covenants and other explicit tools of exclusion.

Today restrictive zoning still disproportionately harms populations of color, although in somewhat different ways. /3

[Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) @chpcny]

It’s not a total accident that NYC’s low-density neighborhoods have restrictive zoning that makes new housing rare or impossible.

A campaign of downzoning, sometimes fueled by an impulse to limit growth of immigrant communities, helped create it.

https://t.co/Rn5EXXGNWl
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[Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) @chpcny]

“That premise is pretty insidious because it is not just a way to slow down this project, but it makes it pretty much impossible to update the zoning citywide.”

[Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) @chpcny]

CHPC’s @hslatkin notes that this legal challenge - had it been successful - would have created a disruption to the land use process akin to “shutting down an entire train line to do track repairs…. A citywide zoning change could stop the city’s land use process.

[The Real Deal @trdny]

The Daily Dirt: Group says City of Yes means “no” for Brooklyn project
https://t.co/iLrui1od70