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.
App NEWS
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.