HDFC, a Model of Affordable and Sustainable Home Ownership
THE SOCIAL AGENDA OF THE HDFCs The Housing Development Fund Corporation offers a model for affordable home ownership and a model of social integration through housing.
VETO BILL (‘17HPD#1)
VETO BILL (‘17HPD#1) Stop Proposed ACT to amend the Private Housing Finance Law, in relation to Assets and supervision of HDFC: Housing Development Funds Corporation (‘17HPD#1) 1—Introduction On 3-2-17, Sherif Soleman, director of State legislative Affairs (the City of New York Office of the Mayor), sent a letter …
Observations on the Proposed Regulatory Agreement by HPD for the Housing Development Fund Corporation (HDFC) I Gaps and Oversights
My experiences in New York City reveal that one might have to be in a situation to see its holes. In 2007, I filed a DBA (doing business as) under Civic Gaps, an initiative to analyze and record gaps and system failures in the city’s everyday life based on personal observations. …
Observations on the Proposed Regulatory Agreement by HPD for the Housing Development Fund Corporation (HDFC) II The forceful frame of the agreement
HPD is writing a Regulatory Agreement that will affect approximately thirty thousand residents of one the affordable housing in programs in New York: the HDFC cooperatives. The frame of the agreement is forceful: the threat of deleting the existing tax exemption (valid until 2029) will force into regulation. …
False Narratives on Housing Development Fund Corporation (HDFC)
January 30 2017 Hon. Gale A. Brewer Manhattan Borough President 1 Centre Street, 19th Floor New York, NY 10007 REQUEST FOR A HEARING Esteemed Ms. Brewer: On July 21, 2016, HPD presented a proposal that would deprive shareholder-owned Housing Development Fund Corporation (HDFC) cooperatives of …
FALLACIES upon which The City has based a proposal for HDFCs
HDFC Fallacies and Claims
Rape New York: Real Estate and Crime
In Rape New York, 2000-2008 I wrote about several holes in the gentrification and real estate development process at the time in New York. This includes using “rape” as a strategy for “moving” in rent stabilized apartments in an area that was under gentrification: Harlem. Upon arriving in New …
The Postman Always Rings Twice
EL CARTERO SIEMPRE LLAMA DOS VECES, un examen del crimen dentro de los edificios. “El portal”, es el tercer lugar en número de robos con violencia, sólo superado por la vía pública y el centro comercial y el portal supera al parque en peligrosidad. En el anuario estadístico del …