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Furman Center Launches New Initiative to Track Affordable Housing at Risk of Losing its Subsidy
On March 30, NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy and the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) announced the launch of the Preservation Data Project, a new initiative to track affordable housing in danger of converting to market rate rentals. The three-year project, which received generous funding from the MacArthur Foundation, will make critical data available to the public and help develop comprehensive and proactive housing preservation strategies. View the press release.
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Furman Center Hosts Conference: Transforming America’s Housing Policy
On February 12 and 13, 2009, the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation, hosted A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Transforming America’s Housing Policy, a national, invitation-only conference.
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Vicki Been Testifies Before Congress on the Neighborhood Impacts of Foreclosures
On May 21, 2008, Vicki Been testified at a congressional hearing entitled: “Neighborhoods: The Blameless Victims of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis.” The hearing was held to focus attention on the consequences to neighborhoods when foreclosed properties fail to sell, and when owners abandon them.
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PlanNYC Named One of Top 10 Planning Websites for 2007
Planetizen, a public interest website for the urban planning community, has selected PlanNYC as one of the top 10 online resources for those interested in planning, design, and development.
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Housing and America’s Future
On February 12, 2007, the Furman Center hosted Jonathan Fanton, President of the John D. Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, to announce $25 million in new funding for housing research.
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Furman Center Researchers Win Award for Best Research Article at Public Policy Conference
Ingrid Gould Ellen, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning and co-director of the Furman Center and Ioan Voicu, Furman Center Research Scholar, won the 2006 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Raymond Vernon Memorial Prize for their study comparing the neighborhood spillover effects of city-supported rehabilitation of rental housing undertaken by nonprofit and for-profit developers, using data from New York City.
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Conference Addresses Affordable Housing in High-Cost Cities
On April 24 and 25, 2006, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and the Furman Center hosted “Affordable for Whom? Meeting Diverse Housing Needs in High-Cost Cities.
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Cost Study Presented at Smart Growth Conference
On January 27, 2006, Furman Center Director Vicki Been presented Reducing the Cost of New Housing Construction in New York City: 2005 Update, also called the Cost Study, at the 5th annual New Partners for Smart Growth conference in Denver, Colorado.
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Congresswoman Cites Furman Center Report in Address
At the 32nd annual New York Housing Conference and National Housing Conference awards luncheon, keynote speaker Congresswoman Nydia M. Velazquez cited a recent Furman Center report in her address on housing affordability.
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Furman Center Co-Director Testifies at CDBG Hearing
On July 25, Prof. Ingrid Gould Ellen testified in front of a congressional hearing on the future of federal funding for the Community Development Block Grant. Professor Ellen discussed the impact of subsidized housing investment on New York City’s neighborhoods.
