Statement for the New York City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings
“All New Yorkers deserve the right to safe and dignified housing. The City Council’s Housing Rescue and Resident Protection Act improves upon the TPT Program with desperately needed fixes to stabilize existing homeowners before they reach the point of foreclosure, while reopening a path to quality housing and ownership for New Yorkers most impacted by legacies of racial disinvestment and redlining.”
Statement on City of Yes for Housing Opportunity
“We offer our firm support behind the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity and would encourage this commission to think of this package of zoning amendments as an opening for a broad swath of interventions to ease our housing crisis, stabilize New Yorkers in their homes, and both build and preserve the New York of the future.”
“This is real, we did it”: Bronx tenants become their own landlord
With the assistance of UHAB (Urban Homesteading Assistance Board) and the City’s Housing Preservation & Development, tenants secured ownership of the building for under $4 million in 2022. This transformation empowered residents like Claudia Waterton, who noted the tangible benefits of ownership: ‘If I need something fixed it gets fixed. I don’t have to keep going back and forth with the landlord.’”