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    Facing the Past: Housing and Community Development Landscape of New York City in the 1990s

    February 12th 2020

    To commemorate 25 years since the Furman Center’s founding, we are looking back at some of the notable scholarship, writing, and people connected to the Furman Center since our founding in 1995. Kicking off this retrospective, we look back at a collection of essays published in 1999 called Housing and Community Development in New York City: Facing the Future. The Furman Center’s first Faculty Director, Michael H. Schill, edited this compilation.

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    Income Volatility, Housing Instability, and Housing Assistance

    December 5th 2019

    On Tuesday, November 19, the NYU Furman Center hosted a policy breakfast at NYU School of Law’s D’Agostino Hall. At the breakfast, Income Volatility, Housing Instability, and Housing Assistance, panelists discussed the housing challenges associated with income and expense volatility and explored the ways in which current housing policies fail to help families facing those challenges. The panelists also described promising programs that mitigate the housing instability caused by income volatility.

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    Sophia House Testifies Before Jersey City Council

    November 20th 2019 |

    On Wednesday, November 13, 2019, Furman Center Legal Fellow Sophia House testified before the Jersey City Council’s Rent Control Reform Committee as it evaluates Jersey City’s rent regulations. House’s testimony covered Furman Center research cataloging the diversity of rent regulation ordinances, identifying the decisions and tradeoffs involved in the designing and implementing these regulations.

  • Panelists speaking in front of an audience at the NYU Furman Center's policy breakfast on recent tenant protection laws in New York City.

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    Policy Breakfast on Recent Tenant Protection Laws in New York City

    November 4th 2019

    On October 15th, the NYU Furman Center held a policy breakfast titled Shifting Landscape: Tenant Protection Laws and Initiatives in New York City. The breakfast included a diverse panel of experts who shared their perspectives on the impacts of recent tenant protection laws intended to curb harassment and improve residential stability. Panelists discussed the impacts on tenants, landlords, and city agencies and debated the need for more or less regulation.

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    Understanding HUD’s Proposed Changes to the Disparate Impact Standard

    October 23rd 2019 |

    Courts have long recognized that “disparate impacts” constitute a violation of protected rights under the Fair Housing Act. Together with the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at U.C. Berkeley, the NYU Furman Center submitted public comments last week arguing against a new rule proposed by HUD on three main grounds.

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    Panel Discussion: The Diversity of New York City’s Neighborhoods and Schools (Video)

    June 20th 2019

    On May 28th, the NYU Furman Center hosted nearly 300 guests for By the Numbers: The Diversity of New York City’s Neighborhoods and Schools, highlighting key findings from a new Furman Center analysis of racial differences in elementary school enrollment patterns and the relationship of school diversity to changing neighborhood demographics. The Chapter was released in conjunction with the Furman Center’s annual State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods in 2018 report.

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    NYU Furman Center Names Matt Murphy Executive Director

    March 21st 2019

    The NYU Furman Center announced the appointment of Matt Murphy as its new Executive Director. He will join the Furman Center on April 15 after an eight-year stint in City government, where he currently serves as Deputy Commissioner for the Office of Policy and Strategy with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). His present portfolio includes the Office of Housing Policy and the Office of Strategic Operations and Analytics, which leads the development of strategies to advance HPD’s housing policy objectives and oversee initiatives to help achieve agency goals and improve operations

  • Policy Breakfast: Local Control in Land Use Decisions, Implications for Affordable Housing and Neighborhood Integration - March 6, 2019, 8:30-10:00am, at the NYU School of Law - #FCbreakfast

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    Video: Policy Breakfast on Local control in land use decisions: Implications for affordable housing

    March 6th 2019

    On March 6th, the NYU Furman Center hosted over 200 participants for the policy breakfast “Local control in land use decisions: Implications for affordable housing and for neighborhood integration. A diverse panel of housing advocates, legal scholars and practioners debated the benefits and drawbacks of local control, and the merits of moving land use decision-making towards the city level. 

  • The Dream Revisited - Contemporary Debates about Housing Segregation and Opportunity - Edited by Ingrid Gould Ellen and Justin Peter Steil

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    The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates about Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity

    January 21st 2019

    The Dream Revisited takes as a starting point the belief that all people should be able to live with equal dignity and recognition of their humanity, and that part of the realization of the ideals of the United States is a continuing responsibility to advance equal access to opportunity for all individuals. Even with these basic principles as a starting point, there is still significant disagreement about the causes of contemporary residential segregation, the consequences of that segregation, and how we as individuals and as a nation should address it. Learn more about The Dream Revisited, available now from Columbia University Press.

  • Policy Breakfast - Reforming Rent Stabilization in New York City - November 29, 2018, 8:30-10:00am, at the NYU School of Law - #FCbreakfast

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    VIDEO: Policy Breakfast on Reforming Rent Stabilization in New York City

    December 11th 2018

    Close to 1 million apartments in New York City are subject to the state’s rent stabilization laws, which regulate how rents can rise. In June, 2019, those laws are set to expire. On November 29th, 2018 the NYU Furman Center hosted an event to bring experts together to explore ideas for reforming the rent laws.

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