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Panel Debates Progress & Prospects of Mayor Bloomberg's Affordable Housing Plan

NEW YORK, NY (02/12/2008)(readMedia)-- SPONSORED BY WOMEN’S CITY CLUB of NEW YORK & HOUSING FIRST!

WHAT:

Panel discussion and question and answer session on the progress achieved by, and the prospects for completing, Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to create and preserve 165,000 units of affordable housing between 2004-2013

WHO:

Shaun Donovan,Commissioner, NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development

Preston Niblack, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Independent Budget Office of the City of New York

David Muchnick, Coordinator, Housing First!

Barbara Zucker, Vice President for Public Policy, Women’s City Club of New York

Ann R. Loeb, Moderator, Co-Chair, Housing & Planning Committee of the Women’s City Club

WHEN:

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.

WHERE:

Fashion Institute of Technology

Building C – 9th Floor Board Room

West 27th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues http://www.fitnyc.edu/aspx/Content.aspx?menu=Future:AboutFit:Campus:CampusMap

FOR INFORMATION, CONTACT: David Muchnick, Housing First!, 212-957-0848, dmmuch@aol.com Barbara Zucker, Women’s City Club, 212-477-4833, bszucker@verizon.net

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Background resources:

Independent Budget Office, “The Mayor’s New Housing Marketplace Plan: Progress to Date And Prospects for Completion,” November 9, 2007, http://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/NHMP07.pdf and http://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/newsfax/insidethebudget153.pdf

NYC HPD, “Mayor Bloomberg’s Affordable Housing Plan: Recent Progress,” February, 2008 http://nyc.gov/html/hpd/downloads/pdf/New-Housing-Market-Place-Plan.pdf

NYC HPD, “Preserving Government-Assisted Affordable Housing,” February, 2006 http://nyc.gov/html/hpd/downloads/pdf/preservation-strategy-companion-piece.pdf

NYC HPD, “The Ten Year New Housing Marketplace Plan” http://nyc.gov/html/hpd/downloads/pdf/10yearHMplan.pdf

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