Last Wednesday, we joined Mayor Bill de Blasio, Housing Recovery Office Director Amy Peterson, Council Members Donovan Richards and Mark Treyger, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, Faith in New York, the Alliance for a Just Rebuilding, and many more partners, including City agencies and local non-profits, at the Sandy Recovery Opportunity and Resource Fair in […]
On Monday, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced his office’s commitment to an additional $40 million in funding to extend the Homeowner Protection Program for an additional two years beyond his office’s initial three-year commitment. The Homeowner Protection Program is a statewide network of 89 housing counseling and legal services agencies that provide […]
The Mutual Housing Association of NYC (MHANY) is a non-profit organization founded in 1986 with a focus on housing counseling and innovative affordable housing development initiatives for low- and moderate-income residents of New York. MHANY is also one of our Network Partners, providing housing counseling for homeowners in mortgage distress or foreclosure. Earlier this summer, […]
Ocwen Financial Corporation has been ordered to refund a total of $125 million to nearly 185,000 borrowers whose loans were being serviced by Ocwen, Homeward Residential Holdings, or Litton Loan Servicing, and who lost their homes to foreclosure, between Jan. 1, 2009 and Dec. 31, 2012. Eligible homeowners were mailed claim forms in the mail […]
New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) was formed in 1990 to provide high quality, free, civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers who cannot afford attorneys. It is a non-profit group and employs approximately 220 attorneys and paralegals. NYLAG is one of the Center for NYC Neighborhoods’ legal services Network Partners. This past week, I […]
The southeast Brooklyn neighborhood of Canarsie was especially hard hit by Hurricane Sandy, with fully 100% of residential buildings located in a Hurricane Evacuation Zone. In response, the Canarsie Coalition was formed in collaboration with the Brooklyn Borough President’s Office in order to assist in coordinating a response best suited to the neighborhood. The Coalition […]
Our staff has been busy connecting with New York homeowners at events over the last few weeks. Here’s a look at a couple of recent events we’ve participated in: We attended the Bridge Street Fresh Start Home Resource Expo held in partnership with the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation on June 14th. The event was free and […]
Since our December 2013 blog post about the Center for NYC Neighborhoods’ Housing Mobility Program, the program has grown considerably. From January through May 2014, the number of homeowners seeking assistance from the Housing Mobility Program has more than quadrupled. Presently, the program is working with 150 families, many of them seeking to transition from homeownership to affordable rental housing […]
Last Friday, a group of us from the Center headed up to the Bronx County Supreme Court to attend a press conference led by Senator Jeffrey Klein and State Assembly Member Helene Weinstein on a topic that affects many New York homeowners facing foreclosure: settlement conferences. Settlement conferences are an important tool for foreclosure prevention […]
Note: This is the first part of a series of blog posts that will examine the impact of changes to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) on New York City’s coastal neighborhoods, many of which are home to many low-to-middle income homeowners. This post describes the challenges faced by coastal communities still recovering from Hurricane […]
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