Ismene Speliotis of Mutual Housing Association of NY; Harry DelRienzo of Banana Kelly; Aleciah Anthony of NorthWest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition; and Donald Notice of West Harlem Group Assistance are ANHD’s four newest board members. They replace outgoing board members: John Reilly of Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation; Barbara Lowry of Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation; ...
Section 8 projects are a key source of affordable housing in low-income neighborhoods, where many of these buildings are at risk of failing or opting out of the subsidy programs that keep them affordable. ANHD – in a joint project with the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), provides data, research, organizing skills and other technical ...
ANHD’s policy work is rooted in and strengthened by grassroots organizing in neighborhoods around the city. Through direct funding and capacity building programs, our members are able to organize in their own neighborhoods as well as increase community residents’ ability to influence city-wide policy on housing issues. Community organizing advances ANHD’s advocacy agenda by strengthening ...
ANHD’s Initiative for Neighborhood and Citywide Organizing (INCO) is a funding and capacity-building program that has become a national model of how to catalyze and support high-impact community organizing. INCO is a partnership with the Neighborhood Opportunities Fund (NOF), a local donors’ collaborative which provides $50,000 per year for 15 groups to support intensive capacity-building ...
The Center for Neighborhood Leadership was founded jointly by ANHD and the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), a policy and advocacy organization of more than 200 groups in New York State that work with immigrants and refugees. The goal of the Center is to strengthen grassroots activism in our city by providing sustainable, multi-layered assistance ...
ANHD was the first to analyze and sound the alarm about predatory equity: the multifamily version of subprime mortgage abuses in our neighborhoods. During the peak of the recent real estate boom, speculative owners backed by private equity investors purchased some 100,000 affordable apartment units. The overleveraged owners/investors’ strategy was to dramatically increase operating income ...
ANHD works to hold banks accountable to low-income New Yorkers through the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) by providing local communities with the resources they need to ensure banks are responsive to their credit needs. In 2010, we released our second annual State of Bank Reinvestment in New York City report. The report presents empirical evidence ...
Most current affordable housing programs only require temporary affordability, often expiring in less then 30 years. This is a clearly inefficient use of public subsidy, and contradicts Mayor Bloomberg’s call in his PlaNYC 2030, to build infrastructure that will support the one million new residents expected in NYC by 2030. Yet, most of the housing ...
ANHD advocates for public resources for the affordable housing movement. We recently directed a successful campaign to win re-funding of a $1.5 million City Council program, the Housing Preservation Initiative (HPI). This ANHD-initiated program provides $60,000 each to 25 groups for housing preservation organizing in the city’s most disadvantaged areas. In addition, we also intensely ...
The Affordable Housing Institute conducts a comprehensive, year-round series of training courses and a score of single-session workshops that promote best practices in affordable housing management and development, as well as helps to increase our members’ community organizing and policy advocacy skills. The current training cycle includes: (list of courses and dates)
