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Battery Park City Funds Should be Used to Finance Affordable Housing and Create Jobs

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:01:20 -0400

The Governor's plan to reduce the deficit by sweeping upwards of $300 million in revenue from the Battery Park City Authority pulls the plug on New York City's and the affordable housing industry's power to create jobs and homes for New Yorkers at...

Housing First!'s Cost-Effective, Fiscally-Responsible Strategy for Economic Growth in NYS

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:01:42 -0400

At a rally for hundreds of housing advocates hosted by Assembly Housing Committee Chair Vito Lopez on the steps of New York City Hall last week, Housing First! unveiled a cost-effective, fiscally-responsible strategy for economic growth that can c...

State's Budget for Affordable Housing Undermines Job Creation and Federal Stimulus

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:28:19 -0500

The New York State Executive Budget's plan for sweeping up to $270 million in excess revenues from the Battery Park City Authority into the State's general fund in a budget-balancing gambit pulls the sparkplugs out of the affordable housing indust...

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Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:44:06 -0500

The Women's City Club presents a forum on the impact of water and sewer rates and financing on NYC's affordable housing stock. The event is co-sponsored by Housing First!

Housing First! on Executive Budget for Affordable Housing

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:42:34 -0500

In the past nine months, the Paterson Administration has accomplished the Herculean task of preserving and producing record numbers of affordable homes and apartments using last year's budget's historic $200 million increase in the state's afford...

Housing First! Hails Budget’s Record $485 Million Capital Investment in State’s Housing Needs

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:44:07 -0400

“With the nation’s economic downturn getting worse and with New York state having lost 6,800 private-sector jobs in February, the state’s new, record-breaking $485-million budget for capital investment in affordable, supportive a...

State's Job Loss Heightens Need for Housing Opportunity Fund in New Budget

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:32:54 -0400

As the nation's economic downturn worsens, news that New York state lost 6,800 private sector jobs in February highlights the urgency of creating the new $400-million Housing Opportunity Fund in the budget that is being deliberated in Albany accor...

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Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:00:58 -0500

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Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:33:50 -0500

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Housing First! Hails Executive Budget's $400 Million Housing Opportunity Fund

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:37:01 -0500

“Housing First!, which represents advocates statewide, strongly supports Governor Spitzer’s proposal for a new $400 million Housing Opportunity Fund,” the organization's coordinator David Muchnick said after release of the Execut...

Housing First! Hails Governor’s New Housing Opportunity Fund

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:32:51 -0500

Governor Spitzer’s proposal for a new $400 million Housing Opportunity Fund in today’s State of the State message is “a quantum leap forward in updating the state’s affordable and supportive housing policies,” accordi...

Housing First! Urges $200 Million in New Capital Funds for Affordable Housing

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:44:03 -0500

Testimony of David M. Muchnick, Coordinator, Housing First!, at the NYS Division of the Budget’s Hearing on Housing, Albany, NY, December 18, 2007

Housing First! Comments on Spitzer's Speech to NY Housing Conference

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:22:17 -0500

Statement of Housing First! on the Remarks of Governor Eliot Spitzer to the New York Housing Conference - National Housing Conference Annual Luncheon, at the New York Hilton, December 11, 2007

Housing First! Calls for $500-million Affordable Housing Trust Fund

Tue, 29 May 2007 17:42:55 -0400

Housing First! supports the establishment of an Affordable Housing Trust Fund with $500 million dollars in dedicated annual revenues during testimony by David M. Muchnick, the coordinator of Housing First!, at the New York State Senate’s pub...