by Anthony Hidalgo | Dec 11, 2025 | Affordable Housing Plan, Albany Housing Agenda, COY Housing Recommendation, Home Forward, Housing, News
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine is backing a project that will turn a dilapidated medical center, owned by New York City’s Health+ Hospitals, into 200 affordable housing units, Levine spokesperson Reuben Torres told Playbook. If approved, the project at...
by Anthony Hidalgo | Dec 11, 2025 | Affordable Housing Plan, Albany Housing Agenda, COY Housing Recommendation, Home Forward, Housing, News
A plan to replace a medical center in Harlem with supportive housing for people leaving homelessness and low-income families inched closer to reality with Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine’s stamp of approval on Wednesday. The plan, which has been moving...
by Anthony Hidalgo | Apr 22, 2025 | Affordable Housing Plan, Albany Housing Agenda, Housing, News
It’s rare when the city, community, and developers can come together to throw their support behind a project, but such is the case so far with Carmen Villegas Apartments–a proposed LGBTQ+ senior housing site in East Harlem. “Carmen Villegas Apartments is exactly the...
by Anthony Hidalgo | Apr 9, 2025 | Affordable Housing Plan, Albany Housing Agenda, COY Housing Recommendation, Home Forward, Housing, News
A 50-year-old building in Lower Manhattan represents a new frontier for solving New York City’s housing crisis. Thanks to an ambitious redevelopment effort, a former office building at 25 Water Street has just been transformed into over 1,300 new homes, with rents for...
by Anthony Hidalgo | Mar 20, 2025 | Affordable Housing Plan, Albany Housing Agenda, COY Housing Recommendation, Home Forward, Housing, News, Right to Counsel
Moderate-income New Yorkers are increasingly becoming the face of eviction in the city, according to a new report by the Community Service Society of New York. The report titled “Preventing Eviction in New York State: What Works and What Doesn’t,” released on...
by Anthony Hidalgo | Feb 19, 2025 | Affordable Housing Plan, Albany Housing Agenda, COY Housing Recommendation, Early Childhood Education, Home Forward, Housing, News
The controversial One45 for Harlem project, which could bring two towers with nearly 1,000 new apartments to East Harlem, secured the backing of Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine on Tuesday — a symbolic but significant endorsement that bodes well for its success...
