Thank you to the Council’s Committee on Housing and Buildings, and Chair Sanchez, for holding this critical hearing on the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) and to provide oversight for The Mayor’s Housing plan, Block by Block: The Housing Plan for a New Era.
Wherever in New York City you live, I bet you can picture an apartment building that fits one of these two descriptions: a multi-family rental property that has passed from absentee landlord to absentee landlord, falling deeper into disrepair as its tenants suffer through cold winters, broken
We honor the memory of all those who lost their lives to Covid-19, including our friend and colleague Tom Waters. Learn more about Tom’s work as a fierce advocate for low-income tenants.
One-third of NYC's voting-age citizens lives in a low-income household. Find out about the hopes and challenges of "The Unheard Third."