Health
Lack of affordable, accessible housing leaves some older residents with limited options
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“The housing situation is just so, so bad that people will live by the river rather than wait in the nursing home for an apartment to open up.”
Broome County Land Bank unveils first renovated home of 2022
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“We’re taking these [properties] and viewing them as opportunities.”
Affordable Housing
Progressive state Senate candidates talk housing, reparations at Ithaca town hall
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Leslie Danks Burke and Lea Webb are competing for the Democratic nomination in the race for New York’s 52nd State Senate District, which covers Ithaca and Binghamton.
Binghamton University says it’s building up Johnson City’s economy, but at what cost to affordable, family housing?
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“Before, if you walked in Johnson City, you would just hear kids laughing and giggling. Now you don’t hear that. All you hear is construction.”
Affordable Housing
Ithaca Common Council continues discussion on homeless encampment policy
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The Council voted Wednesday to “accept” a policy proposal on the issue. That did not, however, put any legislation into law.
Affordable Housing
To keep tenants in homes, Elmira offers $10,000 grants for rental repairs
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The city received $1 million from the New York State Attorney General’s office in 2020 to address some of the root causes of homelessness.
Affordable Housing
Broome County awards projects to reduce housing costs, discrimination
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The Southern Door Community Land Trust will use the grant to retrofit current and future homes with green energy appliances, in an effort to reduce energy costs.
Affordable Housing
Svante Myrick reflects on 10 years as Ithaca’s mayor
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Former Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick gained a reputation as a rising star in progressive politics since he was elected at age 24. He stepped down as mayor this past weekend.
Affordable Housing
Broome County housing trust fund aims to keep residents in safe, affordable homes
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Communities across New York are strategizing ways to keep residents in quality housing. In Broome County, that effort has taken the form of a housing trust fund.
Economy
Council votes to put $3 million toward Binghamton apartment renovations
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The Binghamton City Council voted Tuesday to earmark $3 million for renovations at the Town and Country Apartments, which serves low-income residents on the city’s North Side. But the decision has faced pushback.
App NEWS
Binghamton YWCA to develop new child care, affordable housing complex
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The YWCA of Binghamton and Broome County is expanding its footprint. The organization plans to build a new child care facility and affordable housing complex over roughly five acres downtown.
Affordable Housing
In Ithaca’s eviction court, tenants’ rights advocates are keeping watch
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The Ithaca Tenants Union has been sitting in on weekly city eviction proceedings for several weeks, to put pressure on landlords, as well as the court, to prevent or stall evictions.
Affordable Housing
Binghamton activists see organizing around housing as way to bridge college, community
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Housing activists in Binghamton are calling on college students to join efforts to improve the quality of housing and tenant protections.
Affordable Housing
Ithaca ‘Good Cause’ eviction law tabled, Council members await AG’s opinion
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Advocates for “Good Cause” eviction in Ithaca say it would give more negotiating power to tenants who are in a vulnerable position.
Affordable Housing
In a flood zone, new Fairmont Park apartment complex aims for affordable, disaster-proof housing
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Local officials and developers say new affordable apartments are breathing life into one Broome County neighborhood.
Affordable Housing
With American Rescue Plan Funds, Construction On Binghamton Affordable Housing Projects Begins
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Any household experiencing homelessness will be eligible to live there without income-based restrictions.
Affordable Housing
With Eviction Moratoria Facing Their End, Advocates And Attorneys Look Ahead
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“Because now they’re pushing community members out and renting their units out to students, and we have to have a plan for that.”
Affordable Housing
With Eviction Moratorium’s Impending End, Housing Advocates And Attorneys Prepare Defenses
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“We can provide all the rental assistance in the world, if there’s no actual home to put someone in, then there’s no roof to put over someone’s head.”
adirondacks
The Adirondack Housing Crisis Is Pricing Out Local Families
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“We have people eligible, we have money available, but no units for people to buy.”
Affordable Housing
New Affordable And Supportive Housing Complex Opens In Watkins Glen
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“Some of the places they have around here are not handicap accessible, but this one is.”
Affordable Housing
INTERVIEW: Broome County Land Trust Aims For Equity In Homeownership
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“Historically Black and Brown people have been locked out of owning land, and so if we own the land where particular buildings and or other services are operated, we have more of an opportunity to hold onto our resources and power within the community.”
2021 budget
Residents Criticize Broome Budget Proposal Over Jail, Sheriff Funding
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Many of the protesters who spoke during the hearing criticized the budget proposal for adding two new sheriff positions and keeping the budget for the Broome County jail at more than $29 million.
Affordable Housing
Tenants Push Need For More, Safer Low-Income Housing
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“Those properties, to be honest, should really be condemned, but people have to live there because it’s the only place that they’re able to afford.”
New North Side Housing Complex Brings More Affordable Housing to Broome County
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“You always want to make sure that these are built in areas that have amenities in walking distance—bus transportation, but also stores and doctors offices, things like that.”
Affordable Housing
Elmira, Binghamton Awarded Funds To Fight Blight
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Elmira was awarded $1 million. Binghamton was awarded $585,000.
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Multi-Million Dollar Homeless Housing Project Set For Binghamton’s North Side
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The $7.7 million project is funded mostly from the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance.
Ithaca Receives $900K For Affordable Housing
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The Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Service Community Land Trust plans to use it on two developments that will result in 18 affordable homes.
Trumansburg Continues To Debate New Affordable Housing Development
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Most at the hearing oppose a proposed mixed income housing development.
Affordable Housing
New Rent Law Allows Ithaca To Impose Tougher Restrictions On Landlords, But Should It?
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“The proposal itself would really discourage real estate investment at a time when New York state should be creating more incentives to attract people, grow businesses, and investment opportunities not only locally but in the entire state.”
Affordable Housing
To Heal Opioid Epidemic, Broome Experts Tell NYS AG They Need Affordable Housing, Prevention
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“When we have residents coming back from treatment and ending up in the same housing they left we’re not assisting them in staying in recovery,” said Rebecca Kaufman, Director of the Broome County Department of Health.
Affordable Housing
Ithaca Realtors Tackle ‘Workforce’ Housing Shortage
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The shortage of affordable housing is a serious problem across the Southern Tier. On Thursday night in Ithaca, people from different sectors came together to discuss one aspect of the problem — workforce housing.
Oneonta Affordable Housing Wins State Support
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An affordable housing project in Oneonta just got nearly $7 million from New York state. Gary Herzig says the project fills a big need. “We have very few affordable housing units for working families,” Herzig says. “In addition, we have a list, a long list, of vacant housing units that unfortunately is getting longer every year.”
Herzig works at the community agency Opportunities for Otsego. He helped coordinate the new housing project.