The Association for Neighborhood and

Housing Development held its Annual

Meeting on Nov. 12 at the Bubble Lounge in
Tribeca, where more than 80 members,
board, staff, and friends celebrated ANHDs
accomplishments over the past year. The
festive crowd also cheered the election of
Margaret Chin, Brad Lander, and Jumaane
Williamsformer ANHD Board Members
and colleaguesto the New York City
Council.
All three Council Members-elect had
inspiring and hopeful words for groups
committed to building strong, vibrant, and
affordable neighborhoods in our city.
Representing Chinatown and the Lower
East Side, Chin thanked her supporters and
pledged she would remain committed in her
new position to her strong, vocal advocacy
for affordable housing. Representing Park
Slope, Carroll Gardens, and Borough Park,
Lander stressed that the citys high rate of
homelessness was unacceptable, and
deplored the need of so many New Yorkers
to pay an unsustainable portion of their
incomes for housing. Representing Flatbush,
East Flatbush, and the Flatlands, Williams
also strongly reiterated his commitment to
ensuring that all New Yorkers have access to
affordable housing. The three new Council
Members stressed how much they value the
efforts of ANHD and the importance of
working together going forward.
During the formal part of the event,
Board President Michelle de la Uz,
Executive Director of the Fifth Avenue
Committee, acknowledged the leadership of
ANHDs new Executive Director, Benjamin
Dulchin. De la Uz congratulated Dulchin for
making great strides to build on ANHDs
long, successful track record of high-impact
advocacy. She also outlined this years
programmatic highlights, including:
Launching the Center for
Neighborhood Leadership, a joint project of
ANHD and the New York Immigration
Coalition aimed at establishing a permanent
infrastructure in New York City to promote
and bolster community organizing and
leadership development. The Centers first
class of 10 community organizing
apprentices are now working with host
groups throughout the city.
Completing the first year of the second
four-year cycle of the Initiative for
Neighborhood and Community Organizing
(INCO), a partnership between ANHD and
the Neighborhood Opportunities Fund, a
local donors collaborative. The 15 INCO-
supported groups are building a strong
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2009 Achievements;
Maps Ambitious
Agenda for 2010
NYC Council Members- elect (L-R) Margaret Chin, Jumaane Williams and Brad Lander
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grassroots voice in the housing
movement, focusing on organizing
tenants to resist displacement from
predatory equity-owned properties,
and increasing public pressure on the
city and state to keep their pledge to
preserve Battery Park City proceeds
for affordable housing.
Hosting a National Convening
on Permanent Affordability at the Ford
Foundation attended by over 65
housing officials, policy experts,
CDCs, and advocates from across
the country. Participants shared best
practices and workable models; HPD
Commissioner Rafael Cestero gave
the keynote address, noting that the
city was actively exploring permanent
affordability strategies.
Taking a more industrywide and
strategic approach to Bank
Reinvestment Advocacy. ANHD met
with banks, regulators and elected
officials to ensure that partnerships
promoting lending and investment in
our communities are maintained and
strengthened in a meaningful way.
Releasing a new report,
Predatory Equity: Evolution of a
Crisis, which details the impending
storm of default and foreclosure of
vastly overleveraged rental
properties and advocates
measures to secure these buildings
as affordable housing. ANHD is
also training and supporting
member organizations working to
resist the harassment and
displacement of tenants.
Preserving federally assisted
housing projects. ANHD played a key
role in Belmont Arthur LDCs
acquisition of Findlay Plaza, a Section
202 property that is home to over 160
senior citizens.
Working to assist first-time
homebuyers and stem the tide of
foreclosures through the comp-
rehensive activities of the New York
Mortgage Coalition.
Board Treasurer Deb Howard,
Executive Director of Pratt Area
Community Council, welcomed three
new ANHD Board members and
thanked two members who were
1 ANHD Board Members (L-R) Barbara Lowry, Northern Manhattan
Improvement Corporation; Andrew Friedman, Make The Road New York;
Chris Kui, Asian Americans for Equality; Seema Agnani, Chhaya Community
Development Corporation; Frank Lang, St. Nicks Alliance; Michelle de la Uz,
Fifth Avenue Committee; Cathy Herman, Goddard Riverside; Deb Howard,
Pratt Area Community Council; Michelle Neugebauer, Cypress Hills LDC. 2
Emily Goldstein, Tenants & Neighbors and Brandon Kielbasa, Cooper Square
Committee 3 Rob Bannon, Hudson Planning Group and Kimberly Allman, New
York Mortgage Coalition 4 Louise Seely, Housing Court Answers; Andrew
Friedman; Jumaane Williams, NYC Council Member-elect and Benjamin
Dulchin, ANHD Executive Director 5 Karen Gellen, ANHD, Mose Gates,
ANHD, Maggie Russell-Ciardi, Tenants & Neighbors; Andrew Friedman 6 Pratt
Area Community Council staff (lL-R) Elana Schneyer, Drew Kiriazides, Orly
Gilat, and Deb Howard
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1 Laura Tavormina, West Side Federation For Senior and Supportive Housing;
Dena Davis, Manhattan Valley Development Corp; Jay Marcus, Hope
Community Inc.; Moses Gates, ANHD 2Steven Choi, Minkwan Center 3 David
Pagan, Los Sures 4 Sarah Desmond, Housing Conservation Coordinators and
Brad Lander, NYC Council Member-elect 5 Andrea Phillips-Merriman, BNIA 6
Moses Gates and Frazier Holloway, ANHD 7 David Shuffler Jr., ANHD and
Jumaane Williams, NYC Council Member-elect 8 Benjamin Dulchin, Karen
Gellen, and Peter Williams, Mid-Bronx Desperadoes Community Housing Corp
9 Seema Agnani, Chhaya CDC; and Sadia Rahman, Urban Justice Center
stepping down.
ANHD is thrilled to welcome Seema
Agnani, Executive Director of Chhaya
CDC; Cathy Herman, Director of
Housing at Goddard Riverside
Community Center; and Chris Kui,
Executive Director of Asian
Americans for Equality, as new Board
Members.
We were sad to announce the
departure of two dedicated Board
Members: Robin LeBaron, formerly of
Hope Community, and Sarah
Gerecke of Neighborhood Housing
Services.
LeBaron moved to Washington, D.C.,
to join an environmental consulting
firm, and Gerecke is the new
Executive Director of the Furman
Center for Real Estate and Urban
Policy at NYU.
Annual Meeting participants toasted
ANHDs 2009 achievements and
committed to a full, vigorous
affordable housing agenda for the
New Year.
For more information about ANHDs
initiatives for 2010, please contact
Karen Gellen at karen.g@anhd.org.
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1Frank Garzoni and Eunide Alexandre, Alexandre
Foundation 2 Daniella van Gennep and Hannah Leider,
VanGennep Design 3Frank Lang 4 David Kene, ANHD;
Melissa S. Lee, NYC Economic Development Corporation
5 AAFE staff (L-R) Jo-Anne Yu, Richard Lee and Chris
Kui 6 Michelle de la Uz, Deb Howard, Seema Agnani,
Sheena Wright, Abyssinian Development Corp.; Benjamin
Dulchin 7Lillyanne T. Alexander, LISC; Emily Goldstein;
David Hanzel, ANHD 8 Janelle Green, NHS; Tamara
Czyzck, CASA New Settlement; Erika Stallings, NYIC.
The New York Mortgage Coalition (NYMC) is a unique collaboration of financial institutions
and community housing agencies dedicated to helping low to moderate-income families
become first-time homebuyers in the Greater New York area. Through financial workshops
and one-to-one homeownership counseling, NYMCs eight community groups educate
qualified borrowers into becoming responsible home buyers. Participating lenders provide
competitive, fixed-rate loans which may include closing cost and down payment subsidies
on a need basis.
For more information on joining the New York Mortgage Coalition please contact:
Ken Inadomi, Director
212.742.0762
Ken.I@nymc.org
Every year the New York Mortgage Coalition
helps thousands of renters prepare
for homeownership.
NYMCs Financial Institutions:
Amalgamated Bank, Astoria Federal Savings Bank,
Bank of America, Capital One Bank, Citibank, EverBank,
HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, M & T Bank.
NYMCs Community Housing Agencies:
Asian Americans For Equality, Cypress Hills Local
Development Corporation, Harlem Congregations for
Community Improvement, Housing Partnership Development
Corp., Housing Action Council, Long Island Housing
Partnership, Neighbors Helping Neighbors,
and Pratt Area Community Council.
Creating aordable homeownership
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Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation announces
that applications are being accepted for 12 two and three -
bedroom condominium units located at 509 Glenmore Avenue
in the East New York section of Brooklyn.
For more information visit the website by clicking here.
Habitat for Humanity Announces brand new, LEED certified,
affordable studio apartments available in the Longwood section
of the Bronx. Own a bright, airy co-op apartment, which
features large windows, high ceilings, hardwood floors, and a
pass through kitchen with breakfast bar. Only a short walk from
subways, parks and shopping. Building is located at 715 Fox
Street in the Bronx. For details or to download an application,
visit: www.habitatnyc.org/own or call the application hotline
at: (212) 991-4000 ext. 327.
The FMR for an area is the amount that would be needed to
pay the gross rent (shelter rent plus utilities) of privately
owned, decent, and safe rental housing of a modest (non-
luxury) nature with suitable amenities. In addition, all rents
subsidized under the Housing Choice Voucher program -
Section 8 Vouchers -must meet reasonable rent standards. In
addition to determining payment standard amounts for the
Housing Choice Voucher program, the FMR is used to
determine initial renewal rents for some expiring project-based
Section 8 contracts, to determine initial rents for housing
assistance payment (HAP) contracts in the Moderate
Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy program (Mod Rehab),
and to serve as a rent ceiling in the HOME rental assistance
program. In the New York Metropolitan area, FMR increased
slightly for studios and 1 bedroom apartments, but decreased
by a comparable amount for larger apartments.
AARP, in a new report, recommends preserving affordable
housing near transit. The report, co-authored by the National
Housing Trust and Reconnecting America, has found that more
than 250,000 privately-owned federally subsidized apartments
exist within walking distance to quality transit in 20 metro area.
With demand to live near transit on the rise, this critical
housing resource is increasingly at risk in the face of upward
pressure on housing prices and expiring government subsidies.
The report concludes that preserving affordable housing near
transit is essential for creating livable communities for older
Americans. To read the entire report, visit: AARP Report
Assets For Independence grants applications are due
January 15, 2010. AFI enables community-based nonprofits
and government agencies to implement and demonstrate an
assets-based approach for giving low-income families a hand
up out of poverty. The program enables grantees to set up
Individual Development Accounts to help families save for
homeownership or other asset building goals. For more
information or an application click here.
DHCR seeks proposals to supplement compliance
monitoring of weatherization program. Due to the large
increase in Weatherization funds through ARRA, DHCR is
seeking to supplement the compliance monitoring activites of
the Agency. Proposals will be accepted from individuals, for-
profit firms, not-for-profit corporations, and partnerships to
provide the required services. Bidders must have experience in
building science, construction field monitoring, or the
installation or supervision of the installation of energy efficiency
measures. Proposals are due November 2, 2009. To apply,
click here.
Resources and Notices
This area highlights available resources and funding
opportunities for nonprofit organizations.
Studio 1Bedroom 2 Bedroom 3 Bedroom
FY 2010 $1129 $1222 $1359 $1672
FY 2009 $1091 $1180 $1313 $1615
% Change +3.5% +3.6% -3.5% -3.5%
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AP APARTMENTS FOR SALE OR FOR RENT ARTMENTS FOR SALE OR FOR RENT
AFFORDABLE STUDIOS FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP AFFORDABLE STUDIOS FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP
HUD RELEASES HUD RELEASES FY FY 2010 F 2010 FAIR AIR MARKET MARKET RENTS (FMR) RENTS (FMR)
NEW REPORTS ON NEW REPORTS ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING AFFORDABLE HOUSING
COMPLIANCE WATCH OF WEATHERIZATION PROGRAM
ASSETS FOR INDENPENDENCE GRANT APPLICATIONS
MAINTENANCE
OF AFFORDABLE
MULTI-FAMILY
HOUSING
ANHD will offer this popular course on the maintenance of affordable
housing properties, with a focus on retrofitting for greater energy
efficiency to reduce environmental impact and operating costs over time.
This 5-session course is specifically geared to building managers,
superintendents & maintenance staff. Site visits to affordable housing
projects will be an important part of the curriculum. Groups sign up for
the whole series and may send any one staff person they want from their
organization for any single presentation.
DECEMBER 3, 2009 - UNDERSTANDING UP-CLOSE THE BUILDING
ENVELOPE AND MAJOR SYSTEMS with Aaron Lewit: Field Trip To
Construction Site. A prominent construction contractor will guide us
through a construction site to see & understand the major building
systems prior to various items being enclosed.
DECEMBER 10, 2009 - MAINTAINING & OPERATING HEATING
PLANTS: Anthony Treglia, Chair, Dept. of Environmental Control &
Facilities Management, CityTech-CUNY, will teach us about combustion,
boilers & heating distribution systems at CityTech in Brooklyn.
TIME: Thursdays from 1:00 PM. - 4:30 PM.
LOCATION: ANHD offices, unless otherwise indicated.
COST: $250.00 per person ($150/ANHD members). Advance
registration required. Seating is limited with priority given to
ANHD members.
TO REGISTER: Mail this form with payment to ANHD, 50 Broad
St., Ste. 1125, NY, NY 10004, Attn: Rita Mazza, or fax to 212-747-
1114. (Make checks payable to ANHD)
Email Mike Bucci at mgbucci@aol.com or Moses Gates at
moses.g@anhd.org with questions about this training.
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Calendar of Events
Submission deadline: Items for The Reader, Calendar of Events
for December 4
th
issue must be received by Tuesday, December 1
st
.
Bridge Street Development Corporation is seeking an
Economic Development Specialist.
The specialist is responsible for the development and
implementation of program activities that will enhance economic
development in the Bedford-Stuyvesant community of Brooklyn.
Responsibilities include serving as a broker in recruiting and
assisting businesses interested in locating in Bedford-
Stuyvesant. Developing and implementing a business
recruitment and retention campaign. Organizing and growing
merchants associations.
Qualifications: The successful candidate must possess and
demonstrate the ability and understanding of business principles
and local, regional, and state government or the business
equivalent of building partnerships to achieve a goal. The
candidate must have excellent oral and written communication
skills. He or she must also be innovative and energetic with
excellent planning skills, proven project management skills and
expertise in team building. Bachelors degree in economics,
marketing, planning, business administration or related field,
and five years of increasingly responsible work experience in
any combination of public or private business, real estate or
economic development, including a minimum of two years
experience in small business management. Masters Degree
preferred. Email cover letter and resume to
cgpierre@bsdcorp.org.
Bridge Street Development Corporation, an innovative and
progressive faith-based community development
corporation located in the historic Bedford-Stuyvesant
community of Brooklyn is seeking a Community Organizer.
The organizer will educate and engage community leaders and
residents in the Bedford-Stuyvesant community to improve
public safety and implement neighborhood improvement
projects. The organizer will also work with other BSDC staff to
ensure that BSDCs housing and economic development
programs improve the overall well-being of residents in the
neighborhood. Qualifications: BA/BS, minimum of five years
experience working within the community development field,
including organizing and developing resident leadership,
leveraging financial and technical resources to produce tangible
improvement in neighborhoods and facilitating collaborative
efforts among community leaders, non-profits and public
agencies. Self-starter, computer literate with excellent
communication skills. Send resume and cover letter to
Temp2@bsdcorp.org.
The Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation (CHLDC)
seeks a Project Manager.
Responsibilities: Help implement an innovative, community-wide
sustainability initiative that seeks to coordinate everything from
building retrofits to a wide-ranging participatory planning
process. Manage all aspects of the predevelopment process;
update development and operating budgets; Oversee design
and construction process with architects and contractors;
Handle ongoing monitoring, requisition and compliance of
projects under construction; Identify new community
development opportunities, conduct feasibility analyses
(including financial analysis) and prepare applications for
funding.
Qualifications: Bachelors Degree in Urban Planning, Real
Estate or Finance preferred. 3 to 5 years professional work
experience, including project management. At least 2 years
experience in housing and/or community development. Solid
knowledge of the construction process; familiarity with green
building methods and materials. Excellent communication
(written and oral) and computer skills. Spanish-speaking a huge
plus. Salary: $45,000-$55,000, based on experience. Send
resume and cover letter to: betsym@cypresshills.org.
WHEDCo is seeking a Project Manager for Housing
Development to work on new and ongoing construction
and energy efficiency rehabilitation projects in the Bronx.
Position reports to the Director of Housing and Community
Development. Ideal candidate has 2+ years of affordable
housing development and finance experience. Competitive
salary based on experience and excellent benefits.
How to Apply: Send cover letter and resume, along with where
you heard about the job posting, to info@whedco.org. Please,
no phone calls. We will contact qualified applicants for
interview.
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