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HPD Launches Improved Housing Connect Site for Affordable Housing

Today, Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) launched the newly improved Housing Connect website, designed to make applying for the city’s affordable housing easier and more streamlined. In the past, applying for affordable housing [/how-to-apply-for-affordable-housing/] has been considered buggy and difficult, and was described today as a “paper” system that

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City Housing Official Defends Heavily Scrutinized Third Party Transfer Program to Skeptical Council Members

Council Member Robert Cornegy addresses the media ahead of Monday’s Third Party Transfer hearing (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)CITY HALL — Mayor de Blasio’s housing commissioner on Monday made an adamant defense of a heavily criticized housing program that allows the city to take control of homes whose