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Affordable Housing...

  • Builds strong communities
  • Attracts jobs and preserves property values
  • Allows firefighters, teachers, and nurses to live in the communities they serve
  • Lets working families and senior citizens stay in the towns they call home

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Access to Home: Pathway to Independence

In New York State, the Division of Housing and Community Renewal has found a way to help our disabled neighbors regain their independence through a program called Access to Home. In both teeming cities and remote rural areas, disabled New Yorkers are receiving assistance to help modify their homes to promote their independence through a variety of adaptations and modifications. Their reclamation of independence has kept them in our communities and made us all richer and New York stronger.


Saving Our Neighborhoods: 30th Anniversary of the NPP

DHCR was a proud sponsor of this year's Affordable Housing Conference and Membership Meeting of the Neighborhood Preservation Coalition of New York State, which marked the 30th anniversary of the Neighborhood Preservation Program. This video was shown at the conference.


20 Years of The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program in New York State

Since 1986, the historic Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program has been responsible for fulfilling hundreds of thousands of New Yorker's dreams of affordable housing. In the last ten years it has helped to produce 90% of the affordable rental housing in the nation. Sponsored by Congressman Charles B. Rangel, it's results can be seen from the village of Harlem to the hills of Haight Ashbury. Come see how New York's developers, financiers and non-profits have harnessed this economic engine for the benefit of New York's neediest citizens.