Cooper Park residents aren’t happy that NYCHA is moving forward with plans to develop a parking lot space at CPH (is this the first NYCHA infill development to move forward?). No word on how much NYCHA is getting for the lease.
Williamsburg Residents Protest NYCHA Plan To Develop Parking Lot
Inclusionary Housing Program Not Making So Much Housing
According to a new study by Brad Lander’s office, the City’s inclusionary housing program hasn’t created as much affordable housing as the City predicted. That’s not really a surprise, and neither is it a surprise that most of the inclusionary housing generated has been on the Williamsburg waterfront and on the far west side of Manhattan at Hudson Yards. It’s not a surprise because those two areas are some of the few places where the incentives are deep enough to compel participation in the program. In most of Greenpoint & Williamsburg where the program was put in place, the incentive is really not that great, particularly once the market heats up.
Except on the Greenpoint waterfront – it will be big there.
Via WNYC
Mapping Housing Segregation
Very neat ProPublica map analysis of housing segregation in major urban areas since the Great Migration, and how little impact the 1968 Fair Housing Act has had on that segregation.
New Affordable Development in Greenpoint
210 units of new housing will rise on the site of the former Brooklyn Heights Railroad Co. trolley barn at Manhattan between Box and Clay. The building (Crain’s says it’s a “tower”, but the R6A puts a 7-story cap on the whole thing) will have half the units set aside middle- and low-income residents, with the other half being market rate. I’m not sure if the income splits are exactly the same, but this mixed affordable/market-rate development scenario is a very similar set up to 11 Broadway.
NYC Housing Construction on Slow Road
According to REBNY, the decade is starting out slow in terms of new housing construction.
Williamsburg seems to be holding its own, however. Walking through the Southside today, it seemed as though every soft site between Broadway and Metropolitan was under active development.
Landlord Trashes Tenant’s Apartment While She’s Out
A landlord with a history of harassing rent-stabilized tenants has demolished a tenant’s rent-stabilized apartment. In this case, the tenant did not have a lease, so the landlord is claiming “I don’t even know this person”.
Fallout From Housing Official’s Arrest Hits Vulnerable Neighborhoods And Workers
NY World, writing in the City Hall News:
The impact of the alleged criminal activity is especially vivid on the streets of Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, two low-income neighborhoods HPD programs sought to assist. Under HPD’s HomeWorks program… developers were supposed to take vacant city-owned buildings and sell them to new homeowners. But in one of those projects – the three-story brick townhouse at 53 Rochester Ave. in Bushwick – thieves have torn through immaculately painted walls in search of copper and pipes to sell. Once-polished floorboards jut out dangerously, splintered and cracked.