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Series 2: Housing Programs and Policy

Scope and Contents

A wide variety of housing programs and policies are documented in this series, including mutual housing and land trusts, as well as artist housing, Single Room Occupancies (SROs), low-income home ownership and rehabilitation programs, rent regulation, and housing preservation. The majority of materials are from the early 1980s through 2010. The first sub-series includes general files on a large scope of policies and programs pertaining primarily to New York City. These topics are documented in meeting minutes, proposals, clippings, testimony, reports and correspondence.

The second sub-series includes material pertaining to specific mutual housing and land trust projects in New York City. These include Strycker's Bay, Cooper Square, Midwood Friends, the Mutual Housing Association, and the United Tenants Association.

Arrangement

Materials in this series are arranged alphabetically by subject.

Sub-series 2.1: General
Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 20 Folder : 7 14th Regiment Armory
 2002
Box: 140 Item : 356 25th Anniversary Conference November -- Lunch Plenary

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 1990
Box: 140 Item : 355 25th Anniversary Conference November -- Lunch Plenary

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 1990
Box: 140 Item : 357 25th Anniversary Conference -- Strengthening the Community

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 1990
Box: 140 Item : 354 25th Anniversary Conference -- Session 1

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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 1990
Box: 140 Item : 353 25th Anniversary Conference -- Human Resource Development

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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 1990
Box: 140 Item : 352 25th Anniversary Conference -- Housing Center

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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 1990
Box: 140 Item : 351 25th Anniversary Conference -- Generating Wealth Center

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 1990
Box: 140 Item : 350 25th Anniversary Conference -- Economic Development Center

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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 1990
Box: 140 Item : 349 25th Anniversary Conference -- Alleviating Poverty Center

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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 1990
Box: 140 Item : 348 25th Anniversary Conference -- Alleviating Poverty Center

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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 1990
Box: 20 Folder : 8 2077 -- Division of Housing and Community Renewal
 1990
Box: 20 Folder : 9 2109 -- Division of Housing and Community Renewal
 1990
Box: 20 Folder : 10 A Labour Managed Social Investment Fund, Ontario
 1989
Box: 138 Item : 298 Advanced Housing Degiovanni/Allen

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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 September 30, 1985
Box: 20 Folder : 11 Affordable Housing Clippings
 1987-1989
Box: 20 Folder : 12 Affordable Housing Incentives Program
 1990
Box: 20 Folder : 13 Affordable Housing, Ossining, NY
 2000
Box: 20 Folder : 14 An Analysis of the Politics of Urban Renewal
 1962-1975
Box: 20 Folder : 15 Analysis of the DHCR Proposal for a Welfare Housing Demonstration Program
 1980
Box: 20 Folder : 16 Appointments from Mayor
 1990-1993
Box: 21 Folder : 1 Artists' Housing
 1983
Box: 21 Folder : 2 Baptist Women's Residence -- Single-Room Occupancy
 1985
Box: 21 Folder : 3 Big Apple Coalition for Housing
 1984-1985
Box: 21 Folder : 4 Brooklyn Museum Neighborhood Study
 1986
Box: 21 Folder : 5 Campaign Finance Reform Bill Letter
 2002
Box: 24 Folder : 6 CC-HR Housing Opportunities for Families with Children
 1983
Box: 21 Folder : 6 Chase Manhattan Corporation Housing and Economic Development Grant
 1990
Box: 21 Folder : 7 Citizen Advisory Committee Meetings -- Information
 1979-1982
Box: 141 Item : 337 Citizen Participation in REM Workshop

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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 April 13, 1978
Box: 21 Folder : 8 Citizen's Committee for NYC
 1981-1983
Box: 21 Folder : 9 Citizen's HSG and Planning Council
 1983-1984
Box: 21 Folder : 10 City Hall Hearings and Advocacy Meetings
 2002-2003
Box: 21 Folder : 11 Coalition Against Redlining
 1984
Box: 21 Folder : 12 Columbia University Colloquium on Housing
 1980-1989
Box: 21 Folder : 13 Commercial Rent Control in New York City Proposed 1985
 1985
Box: 21 Folder : 14 Committee to Rebuild New York - Richard Kahan's Run for Governorship
 1997-1998
Box: 21 Folder : 15 Community-Government Collaboration
 1995-2014
Box: 21 Folder : 16 Congress for New Urbanism -- Jonathan Rose and Co.
 1999-2001
Box: 21 Folder : 17 Congress of the United States
 1981-1998
Box: 21 Folder : 18 Consumer-Farmer Foundation
 1982-1993
Box: 21 Folder : 19 Consumer-Farmer Foundation
 1976
Box: 21 Folder : 20 Contract with America
 1995
Box: 21 Folder : 21 Crown Heights Federal Code Enforcement Program
 1972
Box: 21 Folder : 22 Cuomo
 1983-1984
Box: 22 Folder : 1 Density -- P. Marcuse
 1981-1994
Box: 22 Folder : 2 Development Commitments Study Commission
 1983
Box: 22 Folder : 3 Disposition of City Owned Property
 1990
Box: 22 Folder : 4 Disposition of City Owned Property -- Active
 1990-1991
Box: 22 Folder : 5 Division of Housing and Community Renewal
 1980-1989
Box: 22 Folder : 6 Division of Housing and Community Renewal -- Low Income Turnkey Enhanced Housing Trust Fund
 1989
Box: 27 Folder : 7 Eastern Region Neighborhood Government Meeting
 1975
Box: 22 Folder : 7 Faith Based Housing Development
 2000
Box: 22 Folder : 9 Ford Foundation -- Leadership in Affecting Policy
 1987
Box: 22 Folder : 8 Ford Foundation -- South Africa Community Reinvestment

Scope and Contents

Contains one 5 1/2" Floppy Disk

 1991-1992
Box: 22 Folder : 10 Foundation for the Support of Neighborhood-Based Development
 1984
Box: 20 Folder : 6 "Hardship in the Heartland" Housing for the Homeless Report
 1984
Box: 22 Folder : 11 Harold DeRienzo's Presentation -- Columbia University
 1993
Box: 138 Item : 307 Harvard University -- Innovations in State and Local Government

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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Box: 22 Folder : 12 Home Improvement Program (HIP)
 1982-1984
Box: 22 Folder : 13 Home Ownership Opportunities
 1983-1984
Box: 22 Folder : 14 Housing
 2002-2003
Box: 23 Folder : 18 Housing -- Robert Shur
 1975
Box: 23 Folder : 1 Housing Advocates
 1983-1984
Box: 23 Folder : 2 Housing Conservation Coordinators
 1987
Box: 23 Folder : 3 Housing Fund New York City Housing Fund
 1982-1983
Box: 23 Folder : 4 Housing Homeless Families
 1990-1991
Box: 23 Folder : 5 Housing in New York: The Challenge and the Opportunity -- Report to New York City Council President
 1985
Box: 23 Folder : 6 Housing Initiative Fund
 1985
Box: 23 Folder : 7 Housing Justice Campaign
 1987
Box: 23 Folder : 8 Housing Justice Campaign 1987
 1985-1990
Box: 23 Folder : 9 Housing New York State Elderly Population
 1980s
Box: 23 Folder : 10 Housing Policy
 1975-1994
Box: 23 Folder : 12 Housing Policy -- Single Room Occupancy Appeal Case Against City of New York
 1990
Box: 23 Folder : 11 Housing Policy Local and National Issues
 1984-2003
Box: 23 Folder : 13 Housing Preservation and Development -- Gliedman to Ron Letter Regarding 1985 Housing Vacancy Survey
 1985-1987
Box: 23 Folder : 14 Housing Preservation and Development Miscellaneous Documents 1996-2002
 1984-2002
Box: 23 Folder : 15 Housing Reducing Housing Costs and Brownfields
 1994-2000
Box: 23 Folder : 16 Housing Seminar -- Rosenbloom
 1985-1986
Box: 23 Folder : 17 Housing Works Newsletter
 1997
Box: 24 Folder : 1 Housing, Liberty Bonds, Land Use
 2001-2003
Box: 26 Folder : 13 The Impact of Washington Reforms on New York City
 1994-1995
Box: 24 Folder : 2 Insurance Redlining, Fact not Fiction -- Adivsory committees to US Commission on Civil Rights
 1979
Box: 24 Folder : 4 Land Use and Housing, A Redistributive Model
 1987
Box: 140 Item : 347 Low-Income Housing Crisis: Can Solutions be Found?

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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 1988
Box: 24 Folder : 5 Low Income Home Improvement Program
 1980-1983
Box: 24 Folder : 3 Low Income Housing Coalition
 1980-1984
Box: 24 Folder : 7-12 Mental Health Law Project
 1982-1990
Box: 25 Folder : 1 Neighborhood Home Improvement Loan Program
 1983
Box: 25 Folder : 2 Neighborhood Strategy Areas Testimony -- Brian Sullivan and Ron Shiffman
 1978
Box: 25 Folder : 3-4 New York City Housing and Community Development Coalition
 1980-1983
Box: 25 Folder : 5 New York City Housing Authority
 1992
Box: 25 Folder : 6 New York City Housing Partnership
 1985-1992
Box: 25 Folder : 7 New York City's Community Development Corporation Issues
 1971
Box: 25 Folder : 8 New York Housing Authority
 1996
Box: 25 Folder : 9 New York Housing Conference
 1995-1997
Box: 25 Folder : 10 New York State Assembly Affordable Housing Unit
 2009
Box: 25 Folder : 11 Office of Mental Health
 1984
Box: 25 Folder : 12-13 Pacific House -- Technical Assistance
 1985-1991
Box: 25 Folder : 14 Performance Zoning for Sustainable Development
 2003
Box: 27 Folder : 8 Perspecta 31 Roundtable Discussion
 1994-1996
Box: 25 Folder : 15 Peter C. Goldmark, Jr. Regional Plan Association
 1991
Box: 25 Folder : 16 PICCED Clippings
 1988-1994
Box: 25 Folder : 17 Planning Democracy and Reason
 1987
Box: 26 Folder : 14 The Politics of Budget Decisions in Communities and Bronx Housing
 1975
Box: 25 Folder : 18 Proposed Housing Models -- AIDS Housing Coalition Reports
 1987-1989
Box: 142 Item : 416 Public and Private Sector + Community = Housing, Center for Architecture

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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 August 4, 2005
Box: 142 Item : 417 Public and Private Sector + Community = Housing, Center for Architecture

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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 2005
Box: 142 Item : 418 Public and Private Sector + Community = Housing, Center for Architecture

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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 2005
Box: 25 Folder : 19 Public/Private Ventures' States of Change Report on Work-First Policy
 2001
Box: 25 Folder : 20 Red Hook Revitalization and Green Neighborhoods
 1994-2005
Box: 62 Folder : 1-4 Regional Plan Association
 1997-2002
Box: 62 Folder : 5 Regional Plan Association
 1991
Box: 62 Folder : 6-7 Regional Plan Association
 2000-2003
Box: 62 Folder : 8 Regional Plan Association
 1991
Box: 62 Folder : 10 Regional Plan Association -- Smart Growth Regional Plan Association
 1999
Box: 62 Folder : 9 Regional Plan Association and New Amsterdam Development Consultants, Inc.
 2003
Box: 25 Folder : 21 Renigades Renigades Housing Movement
 1980
Box: 25 Folder : 22 Rent Regulation Control
 1996
Box: 26 Folder : 1 Rental Housing Assistance
 1997-1999
Box: 26 Folder : 2 Ron New York City Mayor's Commercial Rent Control Task Force
 1985
Box: 26 Folder : 3 Ron Recommendations
 1993
Box: 26 Folder : 4 Same Boat Coalition City-Wide Strategic Discussion
 1996
Box: 26 Folder : 5 Schur Robert Schur
 1975-1981
Box: 26 Folder : 6 Single Room Occupancy Law Clippings
 circa 1980-1990
Box: 26 Folder : 7 Squatters Clippings
 1987-1994
Box: 27 Folder : 9-10 State Commission on Housing
 1988
Box: 26 Folder : 8 Strycker's Bay Proposals
 1994-1995
Box: 26 Folder : 9 Tax Reform Act of 1986 -- Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and Other Provisions
 1986
Box: 26 Folder : 10 Testimonial of 3/24/81
 1981-1982
Box: 26 Folder : 11 Testimony -- June 1984 New York City Board of Estimate
 1984
Box: 26 Folder : 12 Testimony September 22, 1983 Inclusionary Zoning -- Brian P. Davidoff and Ron P. Tegler
 1983
Box: 26 Folder : 15 Toward an Economic and Social Accounting System for Bedford-Stuyvesant
 1973
Box: 27 Folder : 1 Toward an Economic and Social Accounting System for Bedford-Stuyvesant
 1973
Box: 27 Folder : 2 Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP)
 1990-2000
Box: 27 Folder : 3 University Consortium for Neighborhood Research and Development
 1981
Box: 27 Folder : 4 University of Illinois at Chicago Affordable Housing Design Catalogue
 1999
Box: 27 Folder : 5 West Side Community Alliance Alternative to Welfare Proposal to Acuire and Renovate Properties
 1974
Box: 27 Folder : 6 Westside SRO Law Project
 1985-1989

Sub-series 2.2: Mutual Housing and Land Trusts
Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 27 Folder : 11 100 West 88th St, Strycker's Bay
 1988-1990
Box: 27 Folder : 12 103, 05, 07, 09, West 88th St, Strycker's Bay
 1989
Box: 27 Folder : 13 108 West 95th St, Strycker's Bay
 1986-1990
Box: 27 Folder : 14 133-135 West 89th St, Strycker's Bay
 1989
Box: 27 Folder : 15 1992 In rem stock/Community Assisted Tenant Controlled Housing/Community Housing Association of Managers and Producers/Community Service Society Study/CMP/NOW
 1992
Box: 27 Folder : 16 7 West 92 St Strycker's Bay
 1989
Box: 27 Folder : 17 72 West 88th St Strycker's Bay
 1988-1990
Box: 27 Folder : 18-19 ACORN
 1985-1987
Box: 28 Folder : 1 Articles -- Background NYC and Self Help Housing
 1991-1994
Box: 28 Folder : 2 Chemical Bank
 1988-1989
Box: 28 Folder : 3 Chemical Community Development, Inc.
 1989-1990
Box: 28 Folder : 4 Cooper Square
 1990-1993
Box: 28 Folder : 5 Cooper Square 5/91
 1986-1991
Box: 28 Folder : 7 Cooper Square Committee -- Background Reports
 1986-1990
Box: 28 Folder : 6 Cooper Square Interim/Phasing
 1986-1991
Box: 28 Folder : 8 David Dinkins Mutual Housing Trust
 1989-1993
Box: 28 Folder : 9 Developing Housing Trust Funds
 1988
Box: 29 Folder : 1 Gottlieb 5189 Building Monitering
 1989
Box: 29 Folder : 2 Heinz Neighborhood Development Program Grant United Tenants Association Mutual Housing Association
 1993
Box: 28 Folder : 10-11 HUPC Mutual Housing Associaton of New York
 1987-1990
Box: 29 Folder : 3 Inclusionary Zoning and Housing Trust Fund
 1983
Box: 29 Folder : 5 LEVITT Proposal
 1991-1993
Box: 29 Folder : 4 LEVITT Proposal -- Notes, Outline
 1988
Box: 29 Folder : 7 Mary Brooks Housing Trust Fund
 1982-1989
Box: 29 Folder : 10 Midwood Friends 1994 Tax Returns
 1994-1995
Box: 29 Folder : 11 Midwood Friends 1995 Tax Returns
 1995-1996
Box: 29 Folder : 12 Midwood Friends 1996 Tax Returns
 1997-1998
Box: 29 Folder : 13 Midwood Friends 1997 Tax Returns
 1997-1998
Box: 29 Folder : 14 Midwood Friends 1998 Tax Returns
 1998
Box: 30 Folder : 1 Midwood Friends 1999 Tax Returns
 1998-1999
Box: 30 Folder : 2 Midwood Friends 2000 Tax Returns
 2000-2001
Box: 30 Folder : 3 Midwood Friends 2001 Tax Returns
 2001-2002
Box: 30 Folder : 4 Midwood Friends 2002 Tax Returns
 2002-2003
Box: 30 Folder : 5 Midwood Friends 2003 Tax Returns
 2003-2004
Box: 30 Folder : 6 Midwood Friends 2004 Tax Returns
 2004-2005
Box: 30 Folder : 7 Midwood Friends 2006 Tax Returns
 2006-2007
Box: 30 Folder : 8 Midwood Friends 2007 Tax Returns
 2007-2008
Box: 30 Folder : 9 Midwood Friends 2008 Tax Returns
 2008-2009
Box: 30 Folder : 10 Midwood Friends Bank Statements
 2007-2010
Box: 30 Folder : 11 Midwood Friends DC Checks 1991 and Bank Statements
 1990-1991
Box: 30 Folder : 12 Midwood Friends Development Corporation
 1987-1992
Box: 30 Folder : 13 Midwood Friends Development Corporation 1993-1994 Tax Returns
 1993-1994
Box: 30 Folder : 14 Midwood Friends Development Corporation Bank Statements
 1993-1994
Box: 30 Folder : 15 Midwood Friends Invoices
 2002
Box: 30 Folder : 16 Midwood Friends Money Market Bank Statements
 1990-2001
Box: 30 Folder : 17 Midwood Friends Tenants Association Correspondence with Attorney From April 1993
 1993-2008
Box: 30 Folder : 19 Midwood Friends Tenants Trust 1993 Bank Statement
 1993
Box: 30 Folder : 18 Midwood Friends Tenants Trust 1993-1994 Tax Returns
 1993-1997
Box: 31 Folder : 1 Midwood Friends Tenants Trust Account -- Checking
 1992-1995
Box: 31 Folder : 2 Midwood Friends Tenants Trust Account -- Money Market
 1993-1998
Box: 31 Folder : 3 Midwood Friends Tenants Trust Agreement
 1990-2010
Box: 31 Folder : 4 Midwood Friends Tenants Trust Correspondence with Accountants
 1992-2010
Box: 31 Folder : 5 Midwood Friends Tenants Trust Dime Savings Bank
 1990-1993
Box: 31 Folder : 6 Midwood Friends Tenants Trust Disbursement -- Juan Perez Distribution
 1992-1993
Box: 31 Folder : 7 Midwood Friends Tenants Trust Financial
 1992-1993
Box: 31 Folder : 8 Midwood Friends Tenants Trust Money Market Account Bank Statements
 2002-2006
Box: 31 Folder : 9 Midwood Friends Tenants Trust Sofia Benitez, Sol Stoll Disbursement
 1991-2003
Box: 31 Folder : 10 Midwood Friends Trust Mida Miranda Distribution
 2003
Box: 31 Folder : 11 Midwood Garden Projections
 1991-2009
Box: 32 Folder : 1 Midwood Garden Projections
 1991-2009
Box: 31 Folder : 12 Midwood Gardens
 1988-1990
Box: 32 Folder : 2-3 Midwood Gardens
 1986-1992
Box: 32 Folder : 4 Midwood Gardens, Margarent Criscola Midwood Friends Trust Distribution
 1993
Box: 32 Folder : 5 Migda Midwood Friends Trust Soto Distribution
 2003
Box: 32 Folder : 6 Mutual Housing Association Case Studies
 1987-1993
Box: 143 Item : 391 Mutual Housing Association of New York

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Box: 32 Folder : 7-12 Mutual Housing Association of New York
 1983-1997
Box: 33 Folder : 1 Mutual Housing Associaton of New York -- Board Meetings
 1990-1992
Box: 29 Folder : 8 Mutual Housing Association-MD / Mental Health Law Project

Scope and Contents

Contains one 5 1/2" Floppy Disk

 1987
Box: 29 Folder : 6 New York City Coalition for a Fair Federal Budget
 1983
Box: 33 Folder : 2 New York Hispanic Housing Coalition Pratt Membership Certificate
 1984
Box: 33 Folder : 3 People's Mutual Housing Association
 1993
Box: 33 Folder : 4 PICCED UTA Correspondence
 1989-1990
Box: 142 Item : 442 Piedmont Housing Alliance

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Box: 33 Folder : 5 Ron's Testimony -- Housing Trust Fund
 1983
Box: 33 Folder : 6-7 Strycker's
 1982-1991
Box: 33 Folder : 8 Strycker's Bay -- Phase II, Commercial Space Design
 1986
Box: 33 Folder : 9 Strycker's Bay Neighborhood Council -- Draft of Scope of Services
 1986-1987
Box: 33 Folder : 10 Strycker's Bay YCK
 1986-1988
Box: 33 Folder : 11 Strycker's Current Scopes
 1989
Box: 33 Folder : 12 Testimony Housing Trust Fund -- Board of Estimate
 1983
Box: 33 Folder : 13 United Tenants Association Building Operation Data Current
 1989-1990
Box: 33 Folder : 14 United Tenants Association Heinz Neighborhood Development Program
 1993
Box: 34 Folder : 1 United Tenants Association Meetings Correspondence
 1989-1990
Box: 34 Folder : 4 United Tenants Association Mutual Housing Association -- Includes Stryker's Bay
 1989-1992
Box: 34 Folder : 2 United Tenants Association Mutual Housing Association Development
 1988
Box: 34 Folder : 3 United Tenants Association Mutual Housing Association Operations
 1986-1993
Box: 34 Folder : 5 United Tenants Association Scopes
 1986-1990

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