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NEW YORK CITY AGENCIES

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT (HPD)

  • New Housing Marketplace: Creating Housing for the Next Generation: 2004-2013

    • Report describes the largest municipal affordable housing effort in the nation’s history, expanding the Mayor’s original five-year New Housing Marketplace Plan, to a 10-year plan worth $7.5 billion, for creating and preserving 165,000 units of affordable housing and 500,000 affordable homes for New Yorkers by 2013.

  • Progress Report 2005-New Housing Marketplace

    • The second report on the implementation of the Mayor’s housing plan focuses on several key strategies including: in rem stock disposition, increasing the affordable housing pipeline, and identifying new resources to finance and preserve additional housing.

  • New York City Housing Vacancy Survey (HVS)

    • The 2002 HVS describes the state of housing in New York City including information on building conditions, apartment vacancy rate and inventory of residential units. This report is required every three years by City and State rent regulation laws.

    DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING

  • PLAN NYC

    • What will NYC be like in 2030?

  • Strategic Plan- Summer 2005

    • Provides a comprehensive overview of the Department of City Planning’s mission, structure, functions, and projects pursued in the following months

  • New York City: 2007 Proposed Consolidated Plan

    • Report is New York’s annual application to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Community Planning and Development for entitlement programs. The Consolidated Plan consists of four chapters: community profile, five-year strategic plan: priorities and actions, action plan: one-year use of funds, and addition information.

  • PLUTO Data

    • Site is linked to a mapping portal that contains detailed property information including zoning, ownership, land use and lot dimensions for any location in New York City.

  • BYTES of the BIG APPLE™ Digital Data

    • A family of software, data and geographic base map files for the City of New York. The Department of City Planning offers products either for free download or by a license agreement containing information on affordable housing and New York City’s overall housing stock.

  • New York City 2000 Census FactFinder

    • FactFinder provides access to information on New York City’s population from the 2000 Census and profiles presented on community districts, individual census tracts and user-defined groups of census tracts.

    THE NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY (NYCHA)

  • Expanded Affordable Housing Plan

    • NYCHA, HPD and HDC alongside Mayor Bloomberg announce the Mayor’s New Housing Marketplace Plan for increasing affordable housing production.

  • Capital Report: Expanding Affordable Housing

    • Describes NYCHA’s initiatives under the New Marketplace Plan for creating more affordable housing.

  • Property Directory Guide

    • This is a comprehensive 2002 directory of NYCHA properties which includes methods for searching properties by address, development, and/or block and lot

  • Geographic Information by Address

    • Site links to a geographic information system to query information on specific property such as a street segment, plot, block, lot and other relevant information..

    NEW YORK CITY COMPTROLLER

  • Affordable Housing Program

    • Provides description and contact information for programs that support affordable housing and its rehabilitation through the Common Retirement Fund

  • New York State Finances

    • Provides financial information such as: Comptroller’s Report on Financial Conditions of New York State, Cash Basis Reports, Summary of Annual State Spending and Receipts

  • Adopted Budget Report: July 2006

    • The Comptroller’s Comments for the Adopted Budget for Fiscal Year 2007 and the Financial Plan for Fiscal Years 2007-2010

  • Mitchell-Lama and Limited Dividend Housing

    • Affordable No More: New York City’s Looming Crisis in Mitchell-Lama and Limited Dividend Housing, February 18, 2004

    THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

  • Issues Before the Housing & Buildings Committee

    • Describes issues currently before the Committee

    DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS (DOITT)

  • New York City Map Portal

    • Offers access to New York City data and NYC.gov applications with address level data and maps. This portal can find information on a building, property, community, and neighborhood statistics. In addition, this site contains information relative to housing costs through data at FactFinder and the Department of City Planning.

  • Downloading Housing Data and Map of New York City

    • For individuals who want to create a map of New York City’s housing stock, this site offers citywide data for downloads, using GIS data viewers from ESRI (Arc Explorer) and MapInfo (Pro Viewer)

    NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS (DOB)

  • Buildings Information Service System

    • An online query system to search general information on a property located in the city for applications, actions and inspectors. System can also be used to file complaints and violations and/or search for information about a tradesmen licensed by the city.

  • Buildings News and Services

    • Site contains relevant news and services pertaining to Department of Buildings

  • Building Reference Material

    • Site contains some primary reference material such as: building code, permit rules and standards, and policy information.

    NEW YORK CITY RENT GUIDELINES BOARD (RGB)

  • Apartment Search Guide

    • Helps newcomers to New York City as well as longtime veterans navigate the apartment search by techniques and postings of available apartments

  • Tenant’s Right’s Guidelines

    • An essential document for understanding your tenant rights when renting an apartment in New York City

  • Establishment of Rent Guidelines

    • Provides an overview of the process the RGB must undergo in order to pass laws and tenant guidelines

  • Housing Research

    • Offers an array of housing research information produced by RGB

  • Housing NYC: Rents, Markets and Trends 2007

    • Provides information on housing trends including: multifamily mortgages, tenant income and affordability

    NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE

  • Property Information

    • Offers information on property taxes, tax reports, tax reduction and rebates, and information on plot block and lot of properties

    MAYOR’S OFFICE OF OPERATIONS

  • Housing Statistics

    • Document provides an outline of new construction and rehabilitation figures up to 2007

  • My Neighborhood Statistics

    • Site enables New Yorker residents to compare neighborhood services across the City by locally mapped performance statistics.


    NEW YORK STATE GOVERNMENT

    OFFICE OF NEW YORK STATE

  • Housing Information

    • Site contains a number of links that address housing in New York

  • Affordable Housing

    • A citizen’s guide to finding affordable housing in New York

    NEW YORK STATE DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL (DHCR)

  • Housing Information

    • Site contains a number of links from agencies that work with affordable housing

  • Housing Fact Sheets:

    • Link contains fact sheets on New York City housing from rent control to lease renewal and fuel cost adjustments

  • Affordable Housing Solutions

    • Link answers a number of questions specific to affordable housing in New York State

  • Community-Based Housing Organizations

    • Provides a comprehensive list of community based organizations that work with affordable housing and contact information

    NEW YORK STATE COMPTROLLER

  • Affordable Housing Program

    • A description of rehabilitation and affordable housing program offered through the Common Retirement Fund

  • New York State Finances

    • An array of financial information including: basic financial statements, other supplementary information, comprehensive annual financial report, comptroller’s report on financial condition of NYS, cash basis reports and a summary of the State’s annual spending and receipts

    OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE

  • Senior Housing Guide

    • Site contains useful information on housing for New York’s senior population

  • Tenant’s Rights Guide

    • This guide offers New Yorkers answers to questions regarding their personal rights as tenants and speaks to laws surrounding housing rental.

    U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

    U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD)

  • CITYSCAPE

    • A journal published by the Office of Policy Development and Research for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Journal explores housing and urban policy research, some of which is HUD funded, among scholars, government officials and others involved in policy

  • RESEARCHWORKS

    • Official newsletter of U.S. HUD's Office of Policy Development & Research covering new publication announcements, relevant case studies, and success stories that highlight those who care about housing, and those working to make housing more affordable.

  • U.S. HOUSING MARKET CONDITIONS

    • The U.S. Housing Market Conditions, published quarterly, is a compilation of statistical data and written reports. Tabular data indicate market conditions on the national level and are presented for each quarter.


    THE OFFICE OF POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH (PD &R) AND HUD USER

  • Housing Research and Reports

    • Link provides reports on in-house research and studies of HUD’s programs and determines if they are reaching their objectives

  • Voucher Homeownership Assessment

    • An assessment study of the implementation of HUD’s voucher homeownership program

  • Affordable Housing Research

    • A compilation of different publications and research as it relates to affordable housing


    REGULATORY BARRIERS CLEARINGHOUSE (RBC)
    A site hosted by HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research and is a part of the HUD USER Research Information service and Clearinghouse.

  • Regulatory Barriers Report

    • Report describes the barriers that confront affordable housing and suggests mechanisms for eliminating them

    U.S. CENSUS BUREAU HOUSING AND HOUSEHOLD ECONOMIC STATISTICS DIVISION

  • Housing Research Data

    • Provides information on characteristics of housing, income, population and demographic data from the 2000 Census

  • American Housing Survey (AHS)

    • The Department of Housing and Urban Development for the U.S. Census Bureau collects data on the state of the Nation’s housing for a sample set of approximately 55,000 homes. This survey measures housing vacancy, characteristics of income, quality of housing, different neighborhoods, and costs associated with housing for apartments and single family homes.


    FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

    MOODY’S INVESTORS SERVICE

  • Moody’s Investors Services Financing Tools and Research

    • An array of financial information including market research, data, ratings, equity products and training services

    STANDARD & POOR’S

  • S&P’s Ratings

    • Capacity to review rating actions over the last 7 days and search S&P rating information using an entity name