Housing
Are ‘Villages’ The Future Of Elder Care?
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The first thing you notice when you meet Tim O’Neill is that his hazel eyes smile, forming warm half-moons just above the disposable mask the pandemic necessitates.
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New York Senate Approves Bills Targeting Housing Discrimination
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“Buying a new home should be a special achievement in a person’s life without the risk of becoming a victim of abhorrent discrimination.”
Ithaca Mirrors Nation’s Eviction Debate, But Coalition Wants To Change That
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“We say that the rent eats first. People are prioritizing paying rent over paying for food, or for medicine that they might need like an inhaler or insulin.”
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New York Lawmakers Eye Another Rent Relief Program Before Budget Deadline
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The December stimulus from Washington D.C. included about $1.3 billion in housing assistance for New York, with the bulk of the money left to the state to distribute.
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New York State Probe Finds Racial Gap in Mortgage Lending
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“The data is clear – families of color, particularly African Americans, do not have equal access to mortgage lending in Buffalo compared to white households.”
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30 Years After Americans With Disabilities Act, Accessible Housing Still Tough To Find
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“If I can’t maneuver the bathroom, that deems the entire apartment unlivable.”
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New York State Legislature Approves New Eviction Protections
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The New York State Legislature places a moratorium on pandemic-related evictions, but admits it’s only a stopgap measure.
Cuomo To Extend Eviction Protections For Tenants Through New Year
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ALBANY, NY (WCNY) – Tenants in New York will be granted another reprieve in the new year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday, with an extension of an executive order that prevents landlords from evicting tenants who’ve faced financial hardship both during and before the COVID-19 pandemic. The extension, however, may be moot: Democrats in the state Legislature are considering a special session next week to codify and expand a moratorium on residential evictions. Details on what the Legislature may pass haven’t been released, and legislation hadn’t been introduced as of Wednesday afternoon. But Democrats who control both the state Senate and Assembly have been hinting at an end-of-year return to Albany for weeks now. Some of the state’s current protections for tenants expire on Jan.
To Prevent Evictions, Reed Says Congress Considering Housing Assistance
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“A lot of the landlords are small business owners or just mom-and-pop folks who may have a couple of that they picked up and they’re using it for side income.”
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New York Governor Asks Governments To Reopen Homeless Shelters
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“Not only is a homeless encampment a violation of that homeless person’s dignity, it’s also a public health threat.”
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Cuomo: Pause On Evictions Extended Through 2020
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“I want people to have fundamental stability in their lives. Nobody’s going to be evicted because of housing.”
Education
As School Begins, Looming ‘Deluge’ Of Evictions Threatens Thousands Of PA Families
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“I got boxes I’m staring at every day. My kids are staring at it. They’re like, ‘When are we gonna find a place to go?’”
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New York Landlords Expect Increased Evictions In Coming Months
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“When we have people who don’t stay in touch with us, or we knock on the door and they refuse to answer, or they tell us to our face, ‘I’m not going to pay, do what you’re going to do,’ that’s when it gets frustrating.”
Government
New York Offers Rent Relief To Low-Income Residents. Activists Call For Canceling Rent
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The COVID Rent Relief Program provides a one-time rent subsidy, paid directly to landlords, based on the amount of income lost in the past four months.
Health
Disability Community Still Fighting For Independent Living
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Here’s something you may not know: People with disabilities are not guaranteed the right to live in the community.
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Anti Housing Discrimination Bill Advances In New York Legislature
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“Should you be a broker that is involved in illegal steering, you will have your license pulled.”
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With Eviction Moratorium About To Expire, Tenants Rights Advocates Worry A Housing Crisis Could Erupt
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Tenants’ rights groups protested in the Bronx and on Zoom Wednesday over what they fear is a looming housing crisis, for tens of thousands of out of work New Yorkers struggling to pay rent.
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As Evictions Resume, Citizen Action Hosts Tenants’ Rights Forum In BGM
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“Evictions are violence. They can mean the death of people and their families, especially during a health pandemic.”
New Yorkers Look To Suburbs And Beyond. Other City Dwellers May Be Next
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Now that so many are working from home, more people are considering moving out of the city. The pandemic has sent enough New Yorkers to the exits to shake up the area’s housing market.
Government
Reed Pushes Back On Proposed Ithaca Rent Cancellation
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“In the sense that you can waive rent and you can not have consequences that are going to impact those same people that you are trying to help.”
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New Data Suggest Renters Among Most At-Risk For Unemployment
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“Low-income renters, in particular, are more likely to have all of their income earned in at-risk occupation,”
Housing
Advocates Predict Surge In Evictions When Courts Reopen
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“They’re going to be flooded with evictions that happen all the time.”
New York Will Waive Mortgage Payments For 90 Days Based On Financial Hardship
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“That will be a real-life economic benefit,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. He also ordered that only 25 percent of workers could be in the office, except for essential services.
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Evictionland, PA: No Time For Politics When You’re ‘Trying To Put Yourself In A Home.’
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The city of Reading has the highest eviction rate among Pennsylvania’s five largest cities
Government
To Counter Housing Discrimination, NY Attorney General Launches Online Resource
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Senior housing, owner-occupied one-and two-family homes, and same-sex college dormitories and boarding houses are exempt.
Government
Canvassers Count Homeless In Central New York
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The point-in-time count is done every year and is a requirement for some federal funding through the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Homelessness Decreases By 6% In Central New York, Continues Downward Trend
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The number of people living on the streets and in shelters in a three-county area is down 6% in the calendar year that ended in September.
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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.
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Ithaca Mayoral Candidate – Svante Myrick
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Ithaca residents have two choices for mayor this election. Incumbent Svante Myrick is running against challenger Adam Levine.
Trumansburg Continues To Debate New Affordable Housing Development
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Most at the hearing oppose a proposed mixed income housing development.
2 Condos Were Illegally Converted Into 18 Micro Apartments In New York
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“The ceiling heights were 4.5 feet to 6 feet tall on each level, depending on where you were standing,” says a spokesperson for the New York City Department of Buildings.
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What Every Landlord And Tenant Should Know About New York’s Rent Laws
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Under the old laws, a landlord could simply ask for late rent and that would be considered a legal warning. Now, a landlord needs to hire someone to serve a notice to a tenant.
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HUD Secretary Says New York’s Lead Poisoning Problem ‘Solvable’
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“We look for places we where can get rapid results, this is one of those places, because of the cooperative spirit that is here and the very well defined problem.”
New York Landlords Call Rent Control Laws An ‘Illegal Taking’ In New Federal Lawsuit
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Last month, housing advocates in New York celebrated sweeping new laws that established rent control permanently. Now, landlords say rent limits are unconstitutional.
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Attorney General Announces $9-Million Assault On New York’s ‘Zombie’ Properties
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“We know that these abandoned homes dramatically decrease property values, they burden local governments, they threaten the safety of surrounding communities.”
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New York Enacts Historic Tenant Protections
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“We’ll begin to reverse the tide of the last 25 years of the landlords having the advantage to having people not be priced out of their homes, pushed out of their homes, threatened out of their homes.”
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.”
Government
New York Governor Promises To Sign Rent Bills
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“I believe this is the best tenant protections they will pass,” Governor Cuomo said, “and I will sign it.”
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As New York’s Rent Law Deadline Nears, Tenant Protests Result In Arrests
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The groups achieved some results: Senate Democrats announced they have agreed to the measures pushed by the groups.
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With Session Waning, New York Lawmakers Try To Forge Agreements On Rent Laws
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“We’ll do whenever it comes together, with whomever it comes together with. We’re interested in getting the work done, and not so much, who does it first and who does it second.”
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New York Attorney General Unveils New Affordable Housing Program
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“New York is experiencing a true crisis in affordable housing and we must use every tool at our disposal to protect and expand our housing stock.”
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Advocates Urge Extending Rent Rules To Upstate New York
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“We believe very strongly that if you do not work together, tenants are going to be screwed. We have a governor who will do everything he possibly can to undo what we’re trying to do and water it down.”
Government
With “Rent Burdens” On The Rise, Advocates Urge Changes To State Laws
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If a proposed bill becomes state law … landlords may not be able to raise rents when tenants renew their leases. WXXI’s James Brown explains that and other potential changes to New York’s rent laws.
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Legislation Would Tax Home Sharing Platforms Like Hotels In New York
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When a guest books a trip to New York through an online platform, these taxes would be automatically charged and collected.
‘Someone To Speak For You’: Low-Income Tenants Get Lawyers For New York Court
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A growing number of residents in New York City qualify for a first-in-the-nation program to provide free legal services to low-income tenants facing eviction.
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Right to Fail: A Frontline-ProPublica Investigation Into How New York Shelters Its Mentally Ill Citizens
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Thousands of New Yorkers with severe mental illnesses won the chance to live independently in supported housing, following a 2014 federal court order. FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate what’s happened to people moved from adult homes into apartments and find more than two dozen cases in which the system failed, sometimes with deadly consequences.
Statewide Rallies Call For More Mental Health Housing Funds
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Statewide rallies are being held weekly demanding the Governor increased state funding for mental health housing. The ‘Bring It Home Coalition’ is staging rallies each Thursday in Long Island, New York City, Syracuse and here in Buffalo, targeting state lawmakers.
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Providers Of Mental Health Housing Rally, Say Fast Food Workers Earn More
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Advocates for increased funding of mental health housing programs rallied in Syracuse and across New York State Thursday. They said there has not been a substantial increase in funding for more than 10 years.
Economy
Shutdown Will Affect People Awaiting Federal Rent Assistance
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As the partial government shutdown enters its fifth week, the effects are spreading throughout Southern Tier and Finger Lakes communities.
New York Public Housing Is Home To City’s Newest Food Entrepreneurs
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Food Business Pathways is a free course that gives low-income participants a leg up in turning their ideas into successful businesses through training, mentoring, access to services and space to sell.
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Buying A Home In New York Is Easier Than You Thought — Really
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BUFFALO, NY (WBFO) – Philip Smith is a physical education teacher in the Buffalo school system — and a longtime renter. But he wanted to build some capital, so he started looking to buy a house.
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Schumer Calls On HUD To Renew Approvals Needed To Continue Rehabbing Zombie Homes
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ROCHESTER, NY (WXXI) – With over 2,000 zombie homes plaguing Rochester, Senator Chuck Schumer is calling on the federal government to renew vital approvals needed to continue work on these vacant homes.
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Study: Airbnb Benefits New York’s Economy, More So In White Neighborhoods
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A Purdue professor has found that rooms rented on sites such as Airbnb benefit white neighborhoods, but do less good for black and Latino areas.
Judge Sides With Residents Who Want Trump’s Name Off Their New York Building
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A judge in New York said Trump Place, a condominium building on Manhattan’s West Side, can remove the Trump name from the building if enough residents agree.
Housing
Women Carpenters from Tompkins County Help Puerto Rico Rebuild
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ITHACA, NY (WSKG) – A Trumansburg carpenter has just begun to help with Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane Maria.
Government
PA Lawmakers Gear Up For Yet Another Property Tax Fight
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HARRISBURG, PA (WSKG) — A bipartisan group of state senators is plotting another attempt at legislation that has become something of a white whale in Pennsylvania — overhauling the property tax system.
Area Shelters: Homelessness Executive Order Is Nothing New
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is ordering local governments to move people who are homeless to shelter during cold weather. The executive order reinforces existing law that requires authorities to take people in for psychiatric evaluation, or hospitalization. Despite the announcement, local experts say it won’t have much effect in the Southern Tier. Binghamton YWCA director Carole Coppens says the region already provides room for everyone who seeks it in the winter. This “no freeze” policy from the Coalition for the Homeless of the Southern Tier runs on private donations.
Construction Begins At Collegetown Housing Development
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Construction is underway on a new housing development in Ithaca’s Collegetown neighborhood. On a recent afternoon, a crew filled in the foundation for the future Collegetown Crossing. The building is set to open next summer with just under 50 apartments. It’s down the street from Cornell University, in a bustling area with several other student developments. Even more housing is needed in Ithaca, though.