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Research & Policy
Furman Center Releases Key Findings of the New York City’s Housing and Vacancy Survey 2008
On June 25, 2009, the Furman Center released a summary of key findings from the New York City Housing and Vacancy survey 2008. The U.S. Census Bureau releases the HVS every three years. The primary goal of the survey is to estimate the rental vacancy rate in the City, but the survey also provides valuable insight into other trends in the housing stock. However, the data are released in a format that is hard to understand without statistical software. In order to make the findings available to a wider audience, we have analyzed the data about New York City’s neighborhoods and compiled this summary of noteworthy trends.
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News & Events
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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Research & Policy
Furman Center Releases State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods Report 2008
On March 11, 2009, the Furman Center released the State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods 2008 report. This year we examine more than thirty years of sale price data to better understand how individual neighborhoods fared in the last two upturns and the last two downturns, and to identify trends that can be useful when looking forward.
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Research & Policy
Furman Center Releases New Report: Transforming Foreclosed Properties into Community Assets
Last May, the Furman Center, with support from the Ford Foundation, convened leading housing researchers, policymakers, lenders, and nonprofit housing organizations to discuss how best to leverage public and private resources to reuse foreclosed properties in a manner that helps stabilize neighborhoods.
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Research & Policy
Furman Center Releases New Report on School Performance of Children Living in NYCHA Public Housing
On November 24, 2008, the Furman Center and the Institute for Education and Social Policy released a new report that examines the school performance of children living in NYCHA housing.
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Research & Policy
Furman Center Releases New Report on the Neighborhood Impacts of Supportive Housing
On November 6, 2008, the Furman Center released a new policy brief, summarizing our research on the neighborhood impacts of supportive housing.
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Research & Policy
Furman Center Releases New Report on Mortgage Lending Trends
On October 27, 2008, the Furman Center released a report summarizing key findings from the 2007 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data, which was released in mid-September.
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News & Events
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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Research & Policy
Furman Center Releases State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods 2007
On April 24, 2008, the Furman Center released the 2007 edition of its annual report, the State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods. The report includes a variety of data indicators on housing, demographics and neighborhood health for the City, boroughs and all 59 community districts.
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Research & Policy
The Furman Center Releases New Analysis of 2007 Foreclosure Data
On April 14, 2008, the Furman Center released a new analysis of foreclosure filings data which reveals that there are approximately 15,000 renter households living in buildings that entered foreclosure in New York City in 2007.