Cooperative Housing News

June 2023

Alternative homeownership options – 6/16/23

Reserve studies of common areas – 6/9/23

Disaster Relief for Housing Cooperatives – 6/7/23

Social Housing: How a New Generation of Activists Are Reinventing Housing – 6/6/23

Airbnb Files Suit Over Law Curbing Short-Term Rentals – 6/6/23

Suggestions to grow affordable housing – 6/1/23

May 2023

Condo common areas studies required now – 5/26/23

New $22M Philanthropic Initiative Launches to Propel the Community Ownership Movement in California – 5/23/23

Homeowners insurance vs. co-op insurance vs. condo insurance – 5/16/23

Affordable Housing: Fixes for scarcity come into focus – 5/16/23

Housing Lottery Launches For Seed Cooperatives At 1900 Park Place In Brownsville, Brooklyn – 5/13/23

Can studying cooperative housing in Sweden teach the U.S. how to overcome the moderate-income family housing crisis? – 5/11/23

Homeownership remains small part of city housing production – 5/8/23

April 2023

New York City’s Famed Cooperative Housing Is Under Threat – 4/28/23

Ten innovations to address America’s housing affordability crisis – 4/17/23

March 2023

Innovating Equitable Homeownership – 3/7/23

SB City Council to address affordable housing – 3/7/23

Andrew Bibby draws lessons from the legacy of co-operative housing – 3/1/23

February 2023

Upper Manhattan Real Estate Update: HDFC Coops As First-Time Buyer Homes – 2/28/23

25 Innovative Solutions to the Housing Affordability Crisis – 2/27/23

Testimony of Comptroller Brad Lander to the New York City Council Housing and Buildings Committee – 2/23/23

Pittsburgh’s URA creates program to preserve existing affordable housing – 2/10/23

January 2023

Greg Carlson, tireless advocate of co-ops and condos, has died at age 72 – 1/27/23

December 2022

This Community-Controlled Real Estate Co-Op Is Proving Its Value – 12/20/22

Madison housing co-ops aim for energy efficiency – 12/20/22

Chatham food-service worker cooperative ChiFresh Kitchen starts a housing co-op. – 12/9/22

Sparks Fly Over Bill to Ban Criminal Background Checks on Co-op Buyers – 12/8/22

Lowering emissions is every New Yorker’s responsibility – 12/3/22

November 2022

Housing authority should choose cooperative plan – 11/12/22

Chicago Housing Cooperatives, Explained – 11/2/22

Pittsburgh City Council approves $1.2M in funding for groups that combat homelessness – 11/1/22

October 2022

Unpaid water bills, foreclosure and board turmoil weigh on concerned Parade Park residents – 10/28/22

How DC Can Leverage the Tenant Right to Purchase to Achieve Housing Justice – 10/26/22

Jackson Heights Co-ops Band Together to Cut Carbon Emissions – 10/26/22

The Making Of Co-op City, America’s Biggest Housing Co-op – 10/20/22

Pittsburgh City Council looks to give organizations $1.2M to combat homelessness – 10/19/22

This Non-Profit Wants to Help You Turn Your Building Into a Co-op – 10/4/22

September 2022

New Affordable Housing Cooperative Opens in Liberty City – 9/22/22

How Housing Is Captive to Investment Demands – 9/9/22

The Transformative Power of Worker Ownership – 9/7/22

Pittsburgh City Council to explore ways to expand affordable housing options – 9/6/22

August 2022

Can a building super serve on a co-op board? – 8/29/22

What is a co-op? – 8/16/22

Community Through Collective Property Ownership in Oakland – 8/12/22

Developer Ewing Properties Expanding Senior Housing Co-op Model With ‘Patio Home’ Concept – 8/11/22

Parade Park offered Black Kansas City families a chance for home ownership. Now it’s crumbling – 8/10/22

Buy a co-op at a discount: All about HDFCs and how to get one – 8/2/22

Upzoning is necessary, but won’t produce an equitable Gainesville on its own – 8/2/22

July 2022

New York Condominium Act Amendment Authorizes Electronic Unit Owner Meetings – 7/19/22

$15 Million Fund To Help South Shore Condo, Co-Op Owners Fix Up Housing Up For Final City Council Vote – 7/18/22

All MD Condos and HOAs Are Now Required To Undertake Regular Reserve Studies – 7/15/22

Residents of Kansas City’s historic Black housing co-op ‘hoping for a miracle’ – 7/1/22

Sunday on the Hudson with former Rep. Eliot Engel – 7/1/22

June 2022

Sustaining the Rising Tide of Black Co-ops: An Ecosystem Approach – 6/29/22

Five-person committee provides recommendations on priority actions
to address longstanding problem | Local News | thesheridanpress.com
– 6/23/22

TOPA Is Good Housing Policy – Banker & Tradesman
(bankerandtradesman.com)
– 6/19/22

SF Supervisor Dean Preston Seeks $100M For Public Housing
(therealdeal.com)
– 6/17/22

Exact Capital Reveals Two Affordable Cooperative Buildings in West
Harlem, Manhattan – New York YIMBY
– 6/15/22

The world’s coolest party was happening five minutes up the road in
New York – how did I miss it? | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
– 6/15/22


Rise of the ‘SHIMBY’? New Report Outlines Steps to Social Housing

What Do South Shore Neighbors Want For Their Community? A New Quality Of Life Plan Is The Roadmap

New Lake Placid housing on the horizon?

South Florida Nonprofits Create Affordable Housing Cooperatives in Miami

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CITY OF DETROIT

Everything You Need to Vote

Ebenezer to develop first seniors housing cooperative in Minnesota community

Investors are buying up mobile home parks. These Fresno tenants have a different idea | PBS NewsHour

Pittsburgh To Assess Limited-Equity Coops as Affordable Housing Tool | Planetizen News

Residents Of Eight Affordable Housing Co-ops Celebrate Climate Action Pledge In Harlem! | harlemworldmagazine.com

Devastated’: Missoula renters denied after forming cooperative to buy their homes | Local News | missoulian.com – 5/1/22

Campbell River group wants to say “Yes in my backyard” | Campbell River Mirror

Daniel McClymonds, Jackie Smith and Connor Chapman: One thing to do when housing markets don’t work | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Do Co-op Apartments Ban Getting Home Equity Loans?
(investopedia.com)

Developers forced out residents of Tudor Gables, a historic coop,
during eviction moratorium | Evening Digest | hpherald.com

Editorial: Pilsen has found a way to help counter gentrification.
City Hall should support it. – Chicago Tribune

Libbytown complex with affordable housing wins approval – Portland
Press Herald

City Council approves measure to investigate limited-equity housing cooperatives | TribLIVE.com

New approach to affordable housing in Missoula could be a model for the rest of the state | Montana Public Radio (mtpr.org)

Can One Bay Area Housing Complex Radically Change Affordable Housing? – Mother Jones

Could Buying a Share of a Property Provide More Affordable Housing in Pittsburgh? | Pittsburgh Magazine

Pittsburgh officials seek an easier path to home ownership for residents | TribLIVE.com

How an old housing model could help Pittsburgh’s affordability
crisis | 90.5 WESA

Five-person committee provides recommendations on priority actions to address longstanding problem | Local News | thesheridanpress.com

What We Learn From Black- and Women-Led Cooperative Practice

Black-owned housing near 18th & Vine set a national example. But now it can’t be saved

Bridgeport woman helps people achieve the ‘American Dream’ through affordable housing

Why this recent change just made it harder to buy or sell an apartment

Advocates call for ‘social housing’ funding in budget

How Legal/financial Problems Are Solved By Nyc Co-ops And Condos

Regina woman shares story in support of permanent supportive housing project

Criminal history may soon be actual history

Building Co-Op Community

Redesigning the Cooperative Governance Experience for Inclusive Economies

Shared Equity Programs Topic of NHC Webinar

Consequences of rising house prices

Co-op and Condo Residents Need to Act Fast on Pandemic Relief Funds | Habitat Magazine, New York’s Co-op and Condo Community

National Cooperative Bank announces Casey Fannon as acting CEO – The Highland County Press

Co-op Seniors Can Now Get Reverse Mortgages | Habitat Magazine, New York’s Co-op and Condo Community

Town & Country FCU president: Cooperative Model can help with affordable housing – Portland Press Herald

Town Board Expected to Take Up Matinecock Court Development – Huntington Now | Huntington, NY Local News

Biden signs stopgap bill to avert shutdown ahead of midnight deadline – CNNPolitics

LSHR Toolkit: Introduction – HUD Exchange

More Help to Get Older Adults to Vaccine and Booster Appointments (ncoa.org)

Don’t force in the criminals | The Riverdale Press | www.riverdalepress.com

Hochul signs co-op protection measure | Queenswide | qchron.com

New Law Raises Bar for Opting Out of Mitchell-Lama Program | Habitat Magazine, New York’s Co-op and Condo Community

Co-ops Will Be Untouched by the “Good Cause Eviction” Bill | Habitat Magazine, New York’s Co-op and Condo Community

Skeptic Says Good Cause Eviction Bill Needs to Be Rewritten | Habitat Magazine, New York’s Co-op and Condo Community

Co-ops could help solve San Francisco’s affordable housing crisis – The San Francisco Examiner (sfexaminer.com)

Housing group, mayor share differing visions on a housing trust fund for Kansas City • Missouri Independent

Cooperative Model can help with affordable housing,’ explains Town & Country FCU president at Maine Affordable Housing Conference (bangordailynews.com)

How community control of housing and land can help solve the housing crisis — High Country News – Know the West (hcn.org)

Virtual Annual Meetings for Co-ops and Condos Are Here to
Stay | Habitat Magazine, New York’s Co-op and Condo Community

Chuck Snyder, Head of NCB and a Co-op “Hero,” Dies at 68 |
Habitat Magazine, New York’s Co-op and Condo Community

Maine Voices: Co-ops reveal the power in the concept of ‘we’
– CentralMaine.com

Ronan event explores housing co-op models | Lake County Leader (leaderadvertiser.com)

Ask Eli: Smoking Bans Made Easy For Condos/POAs with New Law | ARLnow.com

Bill Seeks to End Criminal Background Checks on Co-op Buyers
| Habitat Magazine, New York’s Co-op and Condo Community

Co-op and Condo Tax Abatement To Be Tied to Prevailing Wages
| Habitat Magazine, New York’s Co-op and Condo Community

Where’s That Confounded Kingsbridge? | www.splicetoday.com

Court Says Frivolous Lawsuits Qualify as “Objectionable
Conduct” | Habitat Magazine, New York’s Co-op and Condo Community

Co-op Housing In Springfield First Of Its Kind In Oregon |
KLCC

Ronan event explores housing co-op models | Lake County
Leader (leaderadvertiser.com)

Solar panels at four Riverton Community Housing co-ops meet
community savings and sustainability goals (prnewswire.com)

What is a co-op? (msn.com)

How community control of housing and land can help solve the housing crisis — High Country News – Know the West (hcn.org)

Bill Seeks to End Criminal Background Checks on Co-op Buyers | Habitat Magazine, New York’s Co-op and Condo Community

Worker housing one hot topic Monday | Coeur d’Alene Press (cdapress.com)

Building tenant power with the Housing Justice for All Coalition Building tenant power with the Housing Justice for All Coalition – NationofChange

The emerging solidarity economy: The emerging solidarity economy: A primer on community ownership of real estate (brookings.edu)

Remaking the Economy: Social Housing—A Path to Housing for All? 

The East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative reimagines ownership and equity

Austin, UTRGV partner to educate people on benefits of co-ops

The City of Austin is partnering with a University of Texas system school in hopes to build more cooperatives citywide. Read more on Knax

What Happens When 10 Million Tenants Can’t Make Rent?

It is a crisis, but it is also an opportunity for a huge expansion in social housing. Read more on NY Times

Stimulus payments, vaccines, and other COVID -19 resources

Resources to help ensure that residents of Multifamily properties are receiving stimulus payments, staying safe, and are aware of pertinent information related to the pandemic. Please share with your communities. Read more from HUD

Westchester bill on housing cooperative admissions misses a critical mark | Opinion 

National Cooperative Bank Releases 2020 Mission Report Highlighting Lending, Advocacy, Economic Development and DEI Initiatives

Catafago Fini LLP Successfully Defends Manhattan Cooperative Building in Appeal

Report: Differences between Blueprint Boise and zoning code fuel conflict

Detroit’s Largest Black-Owned Housing Co-Op Isn’t Going Anywhere

Gramercy plans senior co-op

Office Hours: Daniel Libeskind

The Co-Own Company Is Changing the Game for Future Denver Homeowner

Second-Round PPP: ‘Businesses Are More Strategic’

Common Council Ordinance Reduces Limitations For New And Existing Co-Ops

A Habitat Chapter Embraces Community Land Trusts in the Big Apple

How the Real Estate Lobby Exploits Small Landlords

Symposium on expanding shared equity housing highlights innovations and best practices in community-owned land

The Paycheck Protection Program Continues to Provide a Lifeline to Small Businesses

Catafago Fini LLP Successfully Defends Manhattan Cooperative Building in Appeal

Report: Differences between Blueprint Boise and zoning code fuel conflict

Detroit’s Largest Black-Owned Housing Co-Op Isn’t Going Anywhere

Gramercy plans senior co-op

Office Hours: Daniel Libeskind

The Co-Own Company Is Changing the Game for Future Denver Homeowner

Housing Cooperatives Added To Second Round Of Paycheck Protection Program

Housing co-ops and condominiums to receive funding in new COVID-19 relief bill

What’s in new Paycheck Protection Program, Small Business Relief – NC Bankers CEO breaks it down

Paycheck Protection Program Phase 2: What Businesses Need to Know

Co-ops included in the $2.3 trillion spending bill passed by Congress, providing economic relief to people and small businesses impacted by COVID-19

Housing Cooperatives and PPP Loans- Is It Time To Rejoice?

Co-op Boards Need to Act Fast on Paycheck Protection Loans

Co-ops are Now Eligible for Paycheck Protection Loans

Milwaukee investing group teams up with Bader Philanthropies to convert the Cream City Hostel into a housing cooperative

Replacing Decorative Balconies at This Historic Building Could Displace Low-Income Washingtonians

Portland bets on co-ops to meet need for affordable housing

Approved COVID-19 Relief Bill: What Small Businesses Need to Know about PPP

Webinar: A cooperative response to the affordable housing crisis

The Art of the Legal Hack, as Pioneered by Janelle Orsi

Thanksgiving as Self-Giving and Community-Building

Revisiting Levandusky

CDFI Friendly Bloomington And Bloomington Cooperative Living Team Up To Construct 18 New Affordable Units On Near West Side

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett’s budget plan cuts 120 police officers

Guest Commentary: Postwar Interracial Co-ops and the Struggle against Redlining

Analysis of Current and Expected Rental Shortfall and Potential Eviction Filings in the U.S.

Economic Fallout From COVID-19 Continues To Hit Lower-Income Americans the Hardest

Temporary Halt in Residential Evictions to Prevent the Further Spread of COVID-19

VISION FOR BLACK LIVES

Post from Community: The people have spoken and continue to demand divestment from the Milwaukee Police Department

The African American Roundtable sees this as a moment to share a simple statement and remind everyone that demoting the Milwaukee Police Chief is simply not enough. In less than a month the Mayor will be sharing his executive budget with the community that needs to reflect a $75 million divestment from the Milwaukee Police Department. Read more

Berkeley cannot wait to right historical housing wrongs

I came to the San Francisco Bay Area from Ohio more than 40 years ago. I was drawn to the Bay Area because of its natural beauty, culture and inspiring political activism. This area had the most diversity I had witnessed in my lifetime. However, I was shocked at the high price of housing. I was also surprised to face much of the same racial discrimination and prejudice in my search for housing as my parents experienced in the Midwest during the Jim Crow era. Read more

WinnDevelopment and Soldier On, Inc., Close Financing for $23 Million Veterans Housing Development in Tinton Falls

WinnDevelopment, an award-winning multifamily housing developer, and Soldier On, Inc., a non-profit organization serving homeless veterans, today announced they have closed on the financing needed to develop a $23 million, 70-unit apartment community in Tinton, Falls, NJ, for veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces, including veterans transitioning from homelessness. Read more

Building a Co-op Economy in Maine—And Perhaps in Your State Too

Consider an economy facing significant economic challenges. The economy is relatively small, geographically isolated, and faces challenging weather that inhibits the growing season, year-round tourism, and in-migration. The population is small, relatively dispersed, and homogenous. In many respects, this economy is in deep trouble, even as a few southern and coastal population centers are faring relatively well. Read more

The End of Housing as We Know It

In the face of compounding crises, tenants and housing organizers see an opportunity to pry open the real estate industry’s grip on our cities. Read more

Guest Commentary: Comparative Study of Four Affordable Home Ownership Models and Market Rate Ownership and Renting Shows Strength of Housing Cooperatives

The United States is facing a housing crisis. The American workforce of moderate-income citizens—or people who make between 80% and 120% of the area median income (AMI)—has been highly affected. This group is often stuck paying a significant portion of their income towards rent and cannot make the jump to homeownership due to such high home prices and their inability to save. When people are contributing so much of their income to housing, it makes it difficult to pay for other necessities such as food and health care. Read more

New York State Legislature Considers COVID-19 Rent And Mortgage Relief Bill

The Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act of 2020, introduced on July 10, 2020 by Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou (D) and Senator Julia Salazar (D), proposes to cancel residential rent payments and mortgages for small homeowners (owners of residential properties with six or fewer units) accrued between March 7, 2020 and the end of New York’s ongoing state of emergency, plus an additional 90 days. Read more

Housing Is a Worker Issue: Why the Labor Movement Should Support the ‘Beyond Recovery’ Campaign

The uprising for Black Lives has opened new possibilities for organizing. But besides fighting police brutality, unions and worker organizations can address racial injustice by organizing around the issues of workers’ everyday lives. Read more

National Cooperative Bank Originates Over $212 Million for New York Area Cooperatives and Condominiums in Q2 of 2020

National Cooperative Bank (NCB), a leading lender to cooperative housing and condominiums throughout the Tri-State area, originated over $212 million to 51 New York area housing cooperatives and condominiums during the second quarter of 2020. Edward Howe III, Managing Director of NCB’s New York office, made the announcement. Read more

Court Says Pandemic Losses Not Covered by Business Interruption Insurance

In a ruling sure to send shivers through many New York housing cooperatives and condominiums, a Michigan judge has thrown out a lawsuit by a restaurant owner who sought to recoup income lost during the coronavirus pandemic through his business interruption insurance policy. Judge Joyce Draganchuk, ruling on one of the first such cases in the nation, said that insurers must pay business interruption claims only if tangible physical damage, say from a fire or flood, “alters the physical integrity of the property,” the New York Times reports. Read more

Has your co-op registered to participate in National Voter Registration Day yet?

The November elections are less than 100 days away. Like most things in 2020, the election will look very different this year, but the need to practice our cooperative principles and values—including democratic participation and exercising voting rights—remains the same. Read more

Court Says Pandemic Losses Not Covered by Business Interruption Insurance

In a ruling sure to send shivers through many New York housing cooperatives and condominiums, a Michigan judge has thrown out a lawsuit by a restaurant owner who sought to recoup income lost during the coronavirus pandemic through his business interruption insurance policy. Judge Joyce Draganchuk, ruling on one of the first such cases in the nation, said that insurers must pay business interruption claims only if tangible physical damage, say from a fire or flood, “alters the physical integrity of the property,” the New York Times reports. Read more

Housing discrimination: It’s real and not just a tweet

The president’s recent tweets show how far we still have to go Read more

Housing Is a Worker Issue: Why the Labor Movement Should Support the ‘Beyond Recovery’ Campaign

The uprising for Black Lives has opened new possibilities for organizing. But besides fighting police brutality, unions and worker organizations can address racial injustice by organizing around the issues of workers’ everyday lives. Read more

New York State Legislature Considers COVID-19 Rent And Mortgage Relief Bill

The Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act of 2020, introduced on July 10, 2020 by Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou (D) and Senator Julia Salazar (D), proposes to cancel residential rent payments and mortgages for small homeowners (owners of residential properties with six or fewer units) accrued between March 7, 2020 and the end of New York’s ongoing state of emergency, plus an additional 90 days. Read more

NEW IDEAS for the up community COMMUNITY PLAN We need co-op housing;

We need living green walls. Studio City as always, the vanguard for well-planned community development. Read more

CALL TO ACTION – Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for Housing Cooperatives

Good news! Housing cooperatives were included in the recent House passed Heroes Act. Although the Senate will not consider this specific legislation, they will include some provisions from it in a likely next stimulus package.

Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, as well as many NY representatives sent this letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Small Business Administrator Secretary Jovita Carranza seeking eligibility for housing cooperatives to be included in the PPP.

Now, we need your help. Please e-mail your Senators and ask them to include PPP eligibility for housing cooperatives in the next stimulus package. Please do it today and ask everyone in your cooperative to e-mail them too. To contact them, simply go to Democracy.io and send them the following message:

The Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)
The Paycheck Protection Program is a loan designed to provide a direct incentive for small businesses to keep their workers on the payroll. SBA will forgive loans if all employees are kept on the payroll for eight weeks and the money is used for payroll, rent, mortgage interest, or utilities.

Now is the Time to Take Radical Steps Toward Housing Equity

It’s time to think big about housing. No more evictions and foreclosures. Rent and mortgage cancellation on a grand scale. Twelve million new green housing units in the next 10 years. A massive reinvestment in housing under public control, resident control, and community control. Rent freezes, rent control, tenant protections, and anti-displacement measures across the nation. Read more

Op-Ed All I Want for Mother’s Day is Relief for All

When I was 4 years old, my mother made the difficult decision to leave Mexico City with me and my brother to reach the United States, for the promise of a better life. As a single mother, she was barely able to afford an apartment and she worked incredibly hard to provide me with a better chance of success in life. We lived in Spanish Harlem at first, but after my aunt was stabbed, we moved out to Bushwick where we thought it was safer. Read more

Valone Calls on Congress For Co-ops, Condos CARES Relief

Council Member Paul A. Vallone (D-Alley Pond Park, Bay Terrace, Bayside, College Point, Douglaston, East Elmhurst, Flushing, Fresh Meadows, Little Neck, Whitestone) announced on Friday he will introduce a resolution calling on Congress and President Trump to expand the CARES Act and Payroll Protection Program (PPP) to include considerations for housing cooperatives and condominiums.
Read more

Queens lawmaker introduces new legislation seeking to cancel rent and mortgage payments nationwide

As millions of tenants were unable to pay rent on April 1, and with no clear end to the COVID-19 crisis in sight, a Queens lawmaker is helping to introduce a new legislation to cancel rent and mortgage payments nationwide.

Congresswoman Grace Meng on April 20 announced the Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act, which would constitute a full forgiveness of payment, with no accumulation of debt for renters or homeowners and no negative impact on their credit rating or rental history. Read more

Confusion Over COVID-19 Mortgage Relief Programs

Government relief for homeowners facing difficulties paying their mortgages has been a slow and confusing process: thousands of homeowners are spending several hours waiting to speak with their mortgage service providers and the options given may not be suitable for a household suffering from the loss of a significant portion of their income due to the novel coronavirus epidemic, says the Center for New York City Neighborhoods, a homeownership advocacy group. Read more

Ensuring Access to Needed Medications During the COVID-19 Pandemic

One of the challenges many people may face during the coronavirus pandemic is access to needed prescription and over-the-counter medications. Our tips below offer advice for how to get your medications, as well as find help affording them. Read more

Getting the Care You Need via Telemedicine

Keeping on top of your healthcare needs is now more important than ever, but due to the COVID-19 virus, you may be asked by your healthcare system or local physician’s office to avoid in-person visits. Avoiding in-person visits helps control the spread of the disease and ensures that the most critically ill receive frontline care. But just because you may not be able to see your healthcare provider in person does not mean that you should not seek out medical care. Read more

New York City’s affordable HDFC co-ops, explained

New York City’s affordable housing stock mostly consists of rental apartments, but for those who are in the market to buy, there is one reliable source for homeownership on a budget. Housing Development Fund Corporation cooperatives, better known as HDFC co-ops (which are also advertised as “income-restricted” or “restricted sale” apartments), are often priced much lower than a typical NYC apartment, but require buyers to meet certain income caps while also having significant financial assets on hand. Read more

Chicago: With East Garfield Park Ripe For Gentrification, Residents Draw Up Blueprint To Protect Themselves

The community-driven plan was created over the past year in response to rising rents and new development coming to the area.

The West Side may get a lot of bad press about gun violence and poverty, but legacy residents of East Garfield Park have always known their neighborhood is prime real estate. Just a 10-minute ride Downtown by the Green Line, the neighborhood is positioned within arm’s reach of the city’s major employment centers like the Kinzie Industrial Corridor, as well as some of Chicago’s best attractions like the United Center and the Garfield Park Conservatory. Read more

EEI Statement on Suspending Electric Service Disconnections

Edison Electric Institute (EEI) President Tom Kuhn today announced that all EEI member companies are suspending electricity disconnects for nonpayment nationwide. Many companies already have made this commitment in their local service territories. Read on (PDF)

NY Eviction Bill Raises Concerns For Residential Owners

Highlights

  • A bill introduced in the New York State Senate would preclude the owners of cooperatives, condominiums, hotels and rental buildings from being able to evict a tenant, subtenant, or someone without a lease or other occupancy agreement (broadly defined as a “tenant”) unless the landlord can demonstrate good cause for the eviction.
  • If enacted, the legislation would fundamentally change how someone owning real estate could treat an occupant of space regardless of whether the occupant had a legal right to occupy the space, which would seriously damage the economic viability of residential real estate such as cooperatives, condominiums and hotels.
  • The legislation applies to all residential real estate except for rent-stabilized and rent-controlled apartments as well as single-family homes.

Read the article

Coronavirus: What Older Adults Need to Know

The situation around the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is changing rapidly, and NCOA is taking proactive steps to share the best information we have to protect the public’s health, especially among older adults. Now is the time to stay informed and follow basic tips to protect yourself and those around you. Read more

Opinion: We Need Housing Guarantee for Brooklyn’s Working Families

In 1949, President Harry Truman signed the Housing Act to provide “a decent home and suitable living environment for every American family.” Now 70 years later, our country is in an affordable housing crisis and homeownership is at record lows. Access to housing is a human right and a quintessential part of the American Dream, and yet, for far too many Americans, rents are increasing at alarming rates and buying a home is completely out of reach. Read more

Hurricane Planning Tips

This page explains what actions to take when you receive a hurricane watch or warning alert from the National Weather Service for your local area. It also provides tips on what to do before, during, and after a hurricane. Read more.

Coalitions and Cooperation

NAHC regularly participates with coalitions of multi-family affordable housing organizations, cooperative organizations including the National Cooperative Bank, the National Cooperative Business Association and Credit Unions as well as consumer organizations including the Consumer Federation of America, in support of federal initiatives to benefit our members.

NAHC has joined coalitions in signing letters of support particularly to maintain (or increase) funding for affordable housing.