low income housing

“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.”

The land bank will use the money to save roughly a dozen properties on Broome County’s tax foreclosure list.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Housing activists in Binghamton are calling on college students to join efforts to improve the quality of housing and tenant protections.

Local officials and developers say new affordable apartments are breathing life into one Broome County neighborhood.

“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."

“Some of the places they have around here are not handicap accessible, but this one is."