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Research & Policy
A Better Conversation about Area Median Income (AMI)
There is a widespread misconception that the methodology used to calculate AMI prevents the poorest households from accessing affordable housing. That’s an intuitive response to affordable housing lotteries where the eligibility is too high for many neighborhood residents but these outcomes are the result of policy choices at the state and local level, not the methodology used to calculate AMI.
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Research & Policy
Characteristics of Local Schools Near Families with Federal Housing Assistance
Ingrid Gould Ellen, Faculty Director of the NYU Furman Center, co-authored a new report on the characteristics of local schools near families with federal housing assistance.
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Research & Policy
NYU Furman Center Comment on 2020 U.S. Census
NYU Furman Center submitted a comment to the Department of Commerce on the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census.
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Research & Policy
City NIMBYs
In a recent article in the Journal of Land Use, City NIMBYs, NYU Furman Center Director Vicki Been explores the differences between city and suburban NIMBYism and explains why rising opposition to new development, and its increasingly restrictive regulation, matters
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Research & Policy
Making Dirty Land Clean: An Analysis of New York City’s Voluntary Cleanup Program (VCP)
A new policy brief by the NYU Furman Center examines how New York City’s Voluntary Cleanup Program (VCP) is being used to redevelop hundreds of brownfield sites in the city. The VCP is the city’s primary brownfield remediation program, providing oversight and support for developers to clean up properties with actual or potential contamination. The policy brief released today, Making Dirty Land Clean: An Analysis of New York City’s Voluntary Cleanup Program (VCP), sheds light on this city program to incentivize remediation and redevelopment of contaminated sites.
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Research & Policy
REPORT: Growth in NYC’s Housing Stock is Outpaced by Growth in Adult Population and Job Growth
NYU Furman Center report explores changes in the New York City housing stock over time, factors that drive demand for housing, and measures of the responsiveness of housing supply; finds that housing stock is not growing enough to adequately moderate pressures that increasing demand is putting on rents and housing prices.
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Research & Policy
State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods in 2017
The State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods report, published annually by the NYU Furman Center, provides a compendium of data and analysis about New York City’s housing, land use, demographics, and quality of life for each borough and the city’s 59 community districts. Indicators are available for download on CoreData.nyc.
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Research & Policy
HUD Work Requirements: What They Would Mean for New Yorkers
As the Trump Administration considers reforms for HUD-administered rental assistance programs, we provide a snapshot of the employment and economic characteristics of households that would be affected by these changes in New York City and New York State.
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Research & Policy
Policy Minute: HUD Delays Critical Fair Housing Requirement
This Policy Minute explores the historical framework for HUD’s assessment of fair housing requirement and provides context for understanding the potential impact of the delay of that requirement.
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Research & Policy
The Potential Costs to Public Engagement of HUD’s Assessment of Fair Housing Delay
In January 2018, the Trump administration announced that it was delaying the deadline for jurisdictions to comply with an Obama-era rule requiring a robust examination of residential segregation and barriers to housing choice. In response, the NYU Furman Center evaluated some of the potential costs of the Trump administration’s action in comments submitted to HUD on March 6, 2018.
