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Power Player
By Cara Buckley, New York Times, July 30 2010
“Is he a big deal in New York real estate? He’s becoming a big deal,” said Harold Shultz, a senior fellow with the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a research group. “It’s unusual to have someone famous; usually this field is small operators,” Mr. Shultz added. “But Mo, he was serious.”
Yikes! It’s a Garage
By Fred Bernstein, New York Times, July 29 2010
Given the size of the challenge, the Planning Department, through its zoning division, sought comments from members of the American Institute of Architects, the American Planning Association, the Citizens Housing and Planning Council (a nonpartisan research organization), the Real Estate Board of New York, and the City Bar Association. It also briefed community boards.
One Size Fits Some feature in Shinkenchiku architecture magazine in Japan
Citigroup to Fund Housing Project
By Craig Karmin, Wall Street Journal, July 28 2010
The Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a nonprofit housing and planning research association, says about 100,000 rent-stabilized units in New York City are in heavily indebted buildings.
Mo Vaughn expected to win 14 Bronx apartment buildings at auction today
By Adam Pincus, therealdeal.com, July 12 2010
Harold Shultz, a senior fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council and former special counsel to HPD, said those buildings together need perhaps $20 million in rehabilitation work. He said some investors might be looking to make only minimal repairs and extend the cycle of deferred maintenance that will ultimately give the bulk of the bill to city taxpayers.
Leading for Kids in Need
By Marshall Heyman, Wall Street Journal, July 10 2010
At the moment, Matt Blesso sits on several boards. There's the Institute for Urban Design, a progressive design and urban planning policy organization that emphasizes sustainability. There's the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, which is a think tank.
Land Use Process Likely Safe in Charter Revision, But Major Issues Simmer
By Noah Kazis, streetsblog.org, June 25 2010
The central question, said Sarah Watson of CHPC, is "How can the long-term, citywide planning objectives of PlaNYC be integrated within the structure and the processes of New York City government?"
Charter Recommendations
The Wonkster, Gotham Gazette, June 24 2010
Also this week, the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, which had formed its own group to look at the charter, issued its recommendations, aimed, it says, at integrating the long-term planning objectives of the city’s sustainability blueprint, PlaNYC, into the ” structures and processes of city government.” Specifically the council wants the city to look at a means to achieve a consolidated, institutional authority responsible for long‐term, citywide planning” and that the city land use process incorporate the goals of the long-term plan.
Foreclosure Ruling in Hand, Stuy Town Heads to Auction Block
By Eliot Brown, New York Observer, June 22 2010
"They're moving very quickly on this," said Harold Shultz, a senior fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council who has been following the foreclosure and distressed residential properties citywide.
Home Prices to Rise Average of 5 Percent Annually (If We're Lucky)
By Bendix Anderson, HousingWatch.com, June 7 2010
Home prices are likely to rise. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and, on average, for the rest of our lives, according to one reading of a common sense report from the Citizens Housing Planning Council (CHPC).
City Proceeds With Big Middle-Income Housing Project on Queens Waterfront
By Charles V. Bagli, New York Times, June 6 2010
Jerilyn Perine, a former city housing commissioner who is executive director of the nonprofit Citizens Housing and Planning Council, said that not every project could address all of the city’s housing needs. “We’re still a city where half the households are paying more than 30 percent of their income for rent,” Ms. Perine said. She said Hunters Point South was a great project. “I’m a big fan of transforming the industrial waterfront,” she said. “It’s something that has to be done for the future of our city. There is, however, an upfront cost to doing that in time and money.”
Advocates: New Parking Requirements Make Housing More Expensive
By Noah Kazis, streetsblog.org, May 6 2010
"A lot of those properties are not going to be able, physically, to add a side-yard parking spot," said Jerilyn Perine, the executive director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council and a former housing commissioner under Giuliani and Bloomberg. "You can't do it if you're attached on both sides."
New residential database shows distressing trend (pdf)
By Amanda Fung, Crain's New York Business, April 30 2010
“We have limited resources, so we can’t look at every building,” says Harold Schultz (sic), a senior fellow at Citizens Housing & Planning Council in Manhattan. “BIP tells you which building you should look at first.”
Efficiency and Effectiveness: inside the Regional Assembly
By Samir Shah, April 28 2010
Listen to Jerilyn Perine speaking at the RPA's Annual Assembly. You can hear her presentation under "Housing as Part of a Larger Social System"
A Surprise on Wall Street: Luxury Rentals May Benefit From Stabilization
By Cara Buckley, New York Times, April 27 2010
Not every housing expert agrees. Harold Shultz, a senior fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, said Judge Scheckowitz’s decision was incorrect. Legislators who created the 421-g program always intended for the units to be decontrolled when they hit the $2,000 mark, he said.
“This is the ultimate case about rich people,” he said, “with problems that I’m not sure we should care about.”
One Year Later, Plan To Reverse Condo Boom A Bust
By Sal Gentile, CIty Hall, April 26 2010
“Somebody has to be willing to, essentially, take less,” said Jerilyn Perine, a former city housing commissioner in the Bloomberg administration and executive director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council.
Battle Plan Vs. Illegal Housing
By Kalyn Belsha, City Limits, April 13 2010
"Whenever there is a fire, talk of increasing penalizations comes up, but not where the people should go," says CHPC policy analyst Sarah Watson. "You have to open people's minds about different forms of housing and then go through each law and code and advocate for change."
In New York, Breaking a Law on Roommates
By Cara Buckley, NY Times, March 29 2010
Ms. Perine said occupancy laws should be determined not by whether people were related, but by whether a unit was safely inhabited, whether by four people or more.
Sarah Watson, a policy analyst who works with Ms. Perine, said the law had another unintended effect. It put a crimp on innovative construction that might otherwise house larger numbers of single adults, she said.
This story was also posted on a variety of blogs including curbed.com, gawker.com, wsj.com and therealdeal.com among others.
Stuy Town Residents Take First Step Toward Ownership Plan
By Suzanne Ma, DNAInfo, March 2 2010
"This is not going to be easy," said Harold Shultz, senior fellow of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council. "There are obviously buyers who would want to buy Stuy Town, and CW Capital is contractually committed to get top dollar for the project."
Decaying Apartments Symptom of Housing Crisis
By Samantha Gross AP, February 21 2010
In this story about the national scope of the problem of overmortgaged buildings the AP quoted Harold Shultz saying "There are 100,000 apartments teetering on the edge. And depending upon the way various winds blow, they could fall over."
The story was printed in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, among other news outlets.
Gentrification, "Brooklyn's Roommate Belt," and how housing code changes could produce more affordable housing
AtlanticYardsReport.blogspot.com February 15 2010
Former Citizens Housing and Planning Council (CHPC) fellow Denali Dasgupta, now a Policy Analyst in the New York City Comptroller's Office, at the Dreamland Pavilion Conference last October contended that the cause may be less market forces than market failure.
Riverton Goes on Auction Block
By Paul Bubny, GlobeSt.com, February 3 2010
In reporting Braun’s order to sell the Riverton complex, the Times quoted Harold Shultz, senior fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, as predicting an imminent "wave of foreclosure sales throughout New York City. This is the first. For tenants, there’s good news and bad news.
Famed Riverton Houses to be sold at foreclosure (video)
By Marcus Solis, WABC Channel 7, February 3 2010
"This is the ultimate high-profile housing bubble collapse," said Harold Shultz, of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council. "This is the multiple-dwelling equivalent of sub-prime loans."
Riverton Houses in Harlem to Be Sold in Foreclosure
By Charles Bagli, New York Times, February 2 2010
“We’re about to see a wave of foreclosure sales throughout New York City,” said Harold Shultz, senior fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council. “This is the first. For tenants, there’s good news and bad news. Excessive debt will be eliminated, but they will be at the mercy of the auction process as to who the new owner will be.”
Albany urged to end multifamily mess (pdf)
Crains's New York Business, January 18-24, 2010
The ambiguity will lead to a rash of lawsuits, insiders say. Law firms are already courting clients with advertisements. “Ambulance chasers,” says Jerilyn Perine, a former city housing commissioner who now runs the Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York, envisioning a legal free-for-all reminiscent of the lead paint and asbestos eras.
BlackRock, Tishman to Miss Stuy Town Debt Payment
By Jacob Gaffney
The Citizens Housing and Planning Council (CHPC), a non-profit neighborhood and community advocacy firm which monitors large-scale housing issues in the city also believes today’s news is not likely have large repercussions.
“Of all the over mortgaged properties in New York City, Stuy Town is not our greatest concern, as there is still a great deal of value in the property,” said CHPC senior fellow, Harold Shultz. “I would say former Section 8 and other subsidized developments around the Bronx and Upper Manhattan are much more risky, in terms of uncertain outcome for the tenants.”
Time for town halls
By Julia Vitullo-Martin, The New York Post, January 6 2010
"Town halls offer an unfiltered opportunity for people to raise their rational concerns about where they live and work," says Jerilyn Perine, executive director of the Citizens Housing & Planning Council, and a former housing commissioner under Mayors Bloomberg and Rudolph Giuliani
Gentrification Hangover
By Alyssa Katz, The American Prospect, January - February 2010
New York remains haunted by the experience of the 1970s, when property owners abandoned tens of thousands of buildings and brought entire neighborhoods down with them. Years of rebuilding forged a pragmatic cadre of advocates who are terrified at what they see coming. One of them is Harold Shultz, a former city housing official now with the Citizens Housing and Planning Council. "For those of us who lived through the '70s and saw how quickly a building can deteriorate once you stop making an investment in it--and what one bad building can do to an otherwise OK neighborhood--we don't want to see any of that happen again," he says.
Tiny Homes of the Future
By Bendix Anderson, housingwatch.com, December 9 2009
Architects from all over the world found answers at a September symposium held in Manhattan by the Citizen's Housing Planning Council. They showed photos and floor plans of tiny homes - all full of light, fresh air, and clever build-ins. Because they are designed to be tiny -- as opposed to improvised slice-ups of existing buildings -- all the homes find room to hang a few suits and necessities.
New Landlord Is Chosen for Troubled Bronx Buildings
By Manny Fernandez, New York Times, December 2 2009
Earlier this year, the nonprofit Citizens Housing and Planning Council released a report that estimated that 100,000 rental units in the city were in overleveraged multifamily buildings and were threatened with foreclosure.
Taking on the NYC Projects: The city finally takes public housing reform seriously
By Julia Vitullo-Martin, New York Post, November 15 2009
In other words, using federal Hope VI funds, Kelly was able to accomplish something that’s only been tried in the most tentative way in New York. He knows it can be done because he did it, says Jerilyn Perine, a former city housing commissioner who is now executive director of the Citizens Housing & Planning Council. “The future of public resources is a shrinking one,” she warns. “It doesn’t matter who’s president, and doesn’t matter what the policy experts say, government is going to have ever less money to devote to this housing stock in the future.”
The Complex That Just Became More So
By Bendix Anderson, City Limits, October 26, 2009
“DHCR is facing an administrative nightmare,” says former city housing official Harold Shultz, now a senior fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council. “How will they determine rents in a unit which was decontrolled but had multiple tenancy change-overs? If refunds are required for tenants no longer in occupancy, how will they be determined or claimed?”
Stuyvesant Town Ruling Worries Tenants and Landlords Alike
By Christine Haughney and Charles V. Bagli, New York Times, October 22 2009
Some groups tried to calculate how many apartments were affected by the ruling. Harold Shultz, a senior fellow at the nonprofit Citizens Housing and Planning Council and former deputy commissioner at the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, estimated that 35,000 to 70,000 apartments fell under the decision. There are about one million rent-stabilized apartments in the city.
As City Adds Housing for Poor, Market Subtracts It
By Manny Fernandez, New York Times, October 14 2009
“I think the city has done an extraordinary job, more than any other place in America,” said Jerilyn Perine, executive director of the nonprofit Citizens Housing and Planning Council and the former city housing commissioner who helped create the mayor’s original plan in 2002. “You have to go to Europe to find another city that has this kind of robust, sustained housing policy and housing investment.”
Proposed: NYC Should Have Even Smaller Apartments
By Bendix Anderson, CityLimits.org, October 5 2009
In effort to spark new innovation in New York City’s discussion on housing, CHPC gathered more than a hundred architects, developers, city officials, and academics in Manhattan last month for a symposium called “One Size Fits Some.” Throughout the day, designers and developers from locales including Japan, Italy and California presented photos and drawings of well-designed small homes and shared spaces that are difficult, if not impossible, to build under New York’s existing building codes.
The Other Shoe
By Elliot Brown, New York Observer, October 2 2009
And a recent report by the Citizens Housing & Planning Council, a think tank for housing issues, estimated that close to 100,000 apartments in New York City are in multifamily buildings bought with loans that have values greater than the buildings are now worth.
How Shared Housing Can Mean Market Share
By Alec Applebaum, Faster Times, September 29 2009
At a conference last week, the former commissioner of New York’s housing department laid out a radical notion: our nation is not building the kinds of urban housing that consumers want. We should therefore continue to refine our building codes to produce more efficient and safer places- but we should spark the market to produce places of different sizes and shapes.
The speaker, Jerilyn Perine, is now the head of a research group called Citizens Housing and Planning Council . She was kicking off a daylong tour of alternative housing types with the cheeky title “One Size Fits Some.” Most of the day belonged to dreamy architects expounding on tiny houses or ginormous “paradigm shifts,” but Perine’s stage-setting should cue developers across the country to think about new models.
Architecture Week Calendar
September 24 2009
Citizens Housing and Planning Council presents an international housing design symposium.
This Week's Calendar
New York Post, September 23 2009
Presented by the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, this symposium brings together six housing design and planning experts from Tokyo, Barcelona, Leipzig, Montreal and San Diego to present their ideas for the changing housing needs of the 21st-century population.
Japan Society Weekly Newsletter
www.jetwit.com, September 21 2009
In partnership with the Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York, Japan Society hosts an international symposium to take a fresh look at space and housing standards in New York City that better reflect the needs of dynamic 21st-century households.
Foreclosing on Apartments
Narmer's Page, September 16 2009
The collapse of the housing market threatens thousands of apartments across the city, according to a new report by the Citizens Housing and Planning Council.
A Matter of Interpretation: How Will Court View J-51?
By Nicholas Jahr, City Limits, June 22 2009
Nobody, however, is quite sure of the full ramifications of the decision – should it be affirmed. “There’s going to be a hell of a mess sorting this out,” says Harold Shultz, senior fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a nonprofit research center. “And that mess is going to be big.”
Sparring in Albany Over Raising Wages to Build Lower-Cost Housing
By Manny Fernandez, New York Times, June 1 2009
A report released last year by a nonprofit policy research group found that imposing prevailing wages on low- or moderate-cost housing projects could increase total development costs by about 25 percent and increase rents in a typical apartment by about $400 a month. The report was prepared by the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, which is made up of housing developers, construction company executives, bankers and academics.
Protections Sought for Foreclosed Upon Renters
By Bendix Anderson, City Limits, May 18 2009
“At some level you’re rolling the dice,” says Harold Shultz, senior fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council (CHPC). Even if 90 percent of auctioned overleveraged properties go to responsible new owners, that could leave thousands of apartments still in the hands of speculators that don’t maintain the properties. “You could be talking about more than 25 major buildings, dragging down their neighborhoods.”
Public Housing Hope: New Blood at City Authority
By Julia Vitullo-Martin, New York Post, May 18 2009
Jerilyn Perine, however, the executive director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, countered that the appointment reflects an interesting strategy. "You find a smart business guy with a heart and give him your toughest problem. It may work."
For one thing, notes Perine, NYCHA must now function in a landscape of change -- changing federal policies, unstable revenues, a deteriorating local economy -- all demanding innovative responses. "NYCHA has property that could be put to work in whole different ways," she notes. Even without touching a single residential building, NYCHA could, for example, productively redevelop its ugly and grossly underused surface parking lots.
Doctoroff Speech at CHPC's Annual Luncheon highlighted on Brownstoner.com
April 9 2009
It’s hard to tell when the economy will be back on the upswing. Dan Doctoroff recently gave a rousing keynote speech to a Citizens Housing and Planning Council luncheon crowd. He recounted the 7 (or was it 17) downturns NYC has faced since the 1800s, all of them doozies that caused someone or other to remark that New York would “never” recover. If clapping could bring recovery – just as millions of children have brought Tinkerbell back from the edge of death with each reading of Peter Pan – it would have been done last week at the Marriott Marquis.
Doctoroff, Poetic ‘Last Optimist,’ Promises NYC Rebound
By Eliot Brown, New York Observer, April 2 2009
For someone who’s running a company that’s intertwined with the financial industry, Dan Doctoroff doesn’t seem all that concerned about the economy... Yesterday Mr. Doctoroff, the former deputy mayor and current president of Bloomberg LP, gave a speech at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council luncheon in which he painted a highly optimistic picture of the city’s—and the financial sector’s—future, saying New York would emerge stronger than ever before. (He called himself the “last optimist.”)
More Housing Gloom
Bronx News Network, March 5 2009
In Harlem, the 1,228 unit Riverton went into foreclosure on February 3, and the Times is reporting that a State Supreme Court judge appointed a receiver to oversee the complex yesterday. Harold Shultz of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council is quoted extensively in the article, pointing out that the tenants are not likely to suffer since the owner did not contest the foreclosure.
New York Tenants Could Benefit From Foreclosure
By Charles V. Bagli, New York Times, March 3 2009
“Everybody’s objective is to get the financing back to a reasonable level for this property,” said Harold M. Shultz, a senior fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a research and advocacy group. “Riverton can never be a healthy complex carrying a debt of this size. To the extent that foreclosure make that happen, it’s a good thing.”
Hearing Considers Proposal for Bike Storage in New Buildings
By Matthew Goldberg, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 5 2009
Jerilyn Perrine (sic), speaking for the Citizens Housing and Planning Council (CHPC), addressed the impact the amendment could have on affordable housing projects.
She foresees “unexpected costs” to affordable housing communities and developments if a bike storage proposal goes through. This initiative “might not have the desired results,” she said, adding that affordable housing is “not the market for this.”
Search for Donovan's Replacement at HPD Troubled in Part by Troubled Times
By Sal Gentile, City Hall, January 28 2009
“They need someone who has a good core understanding of all those things … but who, most importantly, understands how to use the resources that are there in the agency already to their maximum effect,” said Jerilyn Perine, Donovan’s predecessor and a principal architect of the mayor’s original affordable housing plan. She said, for example, that the housing commissioner might focus more on code enforcement than housing development to ensure that the affordable units that currently exist do not fall into disrepair.
Dwellings or deathtraps? Sinking economy may be behind rise in illegal housing conversions
By Karina Ioffee, NY Daily News, January 25 2009
"If there is not enough market-rate housing in one neighborhood, people start pushing into the more affordable neighborhoods and displace the residents already there," said Jerilyn Perine, executive director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a group that works to improve housing conditions.
"And with the economic crisis, the problem has the potential to get worse," she said.
Reforming the Water Board's Capital Budget
By Mike Muller, Gotham Gazette, January 21 2009
Improving such projections and the oversight of that spending is but one of the reforms needed to improve the Board’s capital budget, according to a new article by Harold Shultz of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council. (The piece was published in The Stamford Review, an annual journal.)
Building a Better Model for Construction Wages
By Jarrett Murphy, City Limits, January 12 2009
But a report issued last month by the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization headed by former HPD commissioner Jerilyn Perine, finds that imposing so-called "prevailing wages" on affordable housing projects would boost construction costs significantly, forcing major changes to the mayor's program – which the administration has already acknowledged is going to take longer than desired to accomplish its goals.
Stuy Town Blues
By Kelly Nolan, BER Business Times, December 2008
“It will obviously take some time to do this,” says Schultz (sic) from Citizens Housing and Planning Council. “We’re talking ten or twenty years — maybe even more.”
The Luck of Gluck
By Candace Taylor, Real Deal, December 2008
"Given where the Riverton is, which is not the highest-income area in the world, the expectation that they could have gotten $2,200, even at the height of the market, was probably wildly unrealistic," said Harold Shultz, former senior counsel for the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and now a senior fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a nonpartisan policy research organization.
CHPC archives highlighted on Cobblehillblog.com
The Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a research organization devoted to housing and planning, profiles the historic Cobble Hill Towers from its archives this month.
HPD boss leaves; City policy at crossroads
By Jarrett Murphy, City Limits, December 15 2008
According to Jerilyn Perine, executive director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council and Donovan's predecessor at HPD, the housing plan faces a perfect storm in which all three underpinnings of affordable housing development – government spending, private sector investment and bank lending – are all pulling back because of the economic crisis
Riverton owner hopes its share won't make it to auction
By Candace Taylor, The Real Deal, December 4 2008
As the mezzanine lender, CBRE has the option of taking over management of Riverton from Stellar in an attempt to make the property profitable, explained Harold Shultz, a senior fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a non-profit research organization. The sale of the partnership interest would allow another entity to come in and manage Riverton, he said.
Advocates question Hunter's Point South financing
By Adam Pincus. The Real Deal, November 21 2008
Jerilyn Perine, who served as HPD commissioner from 2000 to 2004, questioned whether there would be sufficient dollars to fill the inevitable gaps that would exist in funding such a moderate-income project. Perine, who now serves as executive director at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, said there were good and bad aspects to creating the nonprofit entity.
NYC's Housing Hope - Making Future 'Affordable' Projects Work
By Julia Vitullo-Martin, New York Post, November 19 2008
At that meeting, only one member of the public, Jerilyn Perine of the Citizens Housing & Planning Council, spoke in favor of the proposal - noting that the market-rate housing is essential to cross-subsidizing the project. When another council member challenged her support of market rents on city-owned property, she answered, rightly, that "there is no funding for public housing going forward."
Deconstructing What Happens in Law blog
November 18th 2008
"Razing of public housing has little impact on lead paint, opines CHPC's Harold Shultz"
Association for Neighborhood Developers - “A Roadmap to Permanent Affordability”
November 10th 2008
Harold Shultz served as a panelist for the presentation of this report. Held on and hosted by NYU's Furman Center, the panel considered alternatives to insuring the permanent affordability of subsidized housing in New York City. Harold was asked to participate because of his expertise in compliance and enforcement, on the legality of Purchase Options, and on the city’s various approaches to subsidizing housing development and preservation over the years.
Municipal Art Society's Jane Jacobs forum 2008: Housing New Yorkers in the 21st Century
Jerilyn Perine, and CHPC board member Mark Ginsberg, were guest panelists at MAS's annual forum held in NYU's Vanderbilt Hall on Nov 5
CHPC archives highlighted on Stuyvesant Town's Luxliving.com blog
CHPC archives highlighted on Curbed.com
Tues Oct 28
The Citizens Housing and Planning Council has been "promoting a more prosperous and livable New York since 1937," which means the group has some pretty awesome documents floating around in its archives. With all the headlines swirling around Stuyvesant Town of late, the CHPC alerts us that they have uploaded some classic Stuy Town materials to their website to remind us that controversy has always swirled around the Stuy. From its humble beginnings as a segregated housing complex that forced the relocation of thousands of New Yorkers, the Stuy Town experience has never been a dull one.
Risky Mortgages Put Apartments in Jeopardy
By Daniel Massey, Crains, Sept 29, 2008
Rents would have to be more than $1,800 a month just to cover debt service and operating costs says Howard (sic) Shultz, a Senior Fellow at Citizens Housing and Planning Council.
So says...Jerilyn Perine
Oculus Volume 70 Issue 1
Jerilyn Perine interviewed in Oculus, A Publication of the American Institute of Architects New York
What's next for NYCHA?
Housing Research.org - October 2, 2008
Washington D.C. housing research blog covers CHPC's work on public housing
Jerilyn Perine on the Brian Lehrer Show
Stuy-Town Buckles - September 17, 2008
Jerilyn Perine, executive director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, talks about how economy woes are affecting the new Stuy-Town owners' ability to get a good return on their investment.
Rent and Lease Complaints by Tenants Spike
By Adam Pincus, The Real Deal, August 29, 2008
Harold Shultz, senior fellow at the Manhattan-based policy group Citizens Housing and Planning Council, said an increase in the number of complaints may be driven by policy changes, as well as outreach, and the economy.
Fear of Defaults After a Flurry of Apartment House Sales
By Terry Pristin, New York Times, August 26, 2008
But Harold M. Shultz, a senior fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a research and policy organization based in New York, said once operating costs and total debt service were taken into account, average rents at Savoy Park would have to exceed $1,900 a month for the owners just to break even. “How they were ever going to make this work, I don’t know,” he said.
Default Talk and Frayed Nerves
By Charles V. Bagli, New York Times,
August 24, 2008
“In a perverse way, it’s not surprising,” said Jerilyn Perine, executive director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a nonpartisan research and advocacy group. “You have these people buying at way more than what anyone familiar with the market would deem to be its value. They made erroneous assumptions about raising rents and converting apartments. Then, when it fails, they’re shocked and amazed.”
If You Want to Paint An Apartment in NYC
By Jane Genova, Law And More, July 30, 2008
Planning renovations on your pre-1978 residence or the one your tenants occupy? You now face so much new red tape, thanks to the EPA's new layer of regs, that, Harold Shultz warns, "Bring your paint brush and your lawyer - you will need both."
Without Enough Money, What's Next For NYCHA?
By Karen Loew, City Limits Weekly #648, July 14, 2008
"There's very much a realization that the current generation of public housing needs to be funded, needs to be preserved," says Jeffrey Otto, a senior policy analyst at the Citizens' Housing and Planning Council, a New York City nonprofit involved in public housing policy since the 1930s. The group will soon issue a report making recommendations for public housing's future, based on a roundtable discussion among local and national public housing leaders convened by CHPC in December. "We hope that the next generation of public housing – a production program for a new public housing – could really help to preserve the existing stock."
8 New Bids for Starrett City Complex Under Plan to Save Middle-Class Housing
New York Times, July 9, 2008
If the arrangement works, “It could become a new tool that would be helpful in preserving the scarce stock of aging, affordable housing built with substantial public investments,” Jerilyn Perine, executive director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, said Tuesday.
Paying Today's Rent Leaves Little To Spare
By Nicholas Jahr, City Limits Weekly #645, June 23, 2008
To longtime actors in city housing policy, the bleak trends described in "Making the Rent" may not seem like news. "The interesting thing," says Harold Shultz, a senior fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Commission and former special counsel at the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development, "is that the quality of the housing has substantially improved ... so people are getting more for their money." According to the city's Housing Vacancy Survey, renters pointed to a number of improvements in building conditions between 2002 and 2005.
Senior Center Struggles To Survive City Budget Cuts
By N. Clark Judd, The Riverdale Press, June 12, 2008
With a steadily declining trickle of federal funding, and the city's limited ability to help, Jerilyn Perine, executive director of Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a housing policy think-tank, believes Mr. Hernandez's decisions are more Sophie's Choice than Russian roulette.
Water Fees Soak The Poor To Generate City Revenue
By Jarrett Murphy, City Limits Weekly #635, April 14, 2008
Families that use more water pay more, and poor families are bigger users. According to research by the Citizens Housing and Planning Council based on 2005 data, people in wealthy core Manhattan neighborhoods paid an average of $372 per household while the lower-income Bronx forked over an average of $456 per household.
Where the Other Half Lives: An Insider Works to Bolster the Projects
By Manny Fernandez, New York Times, April 13, 2008
“He (Tino Hernandez)’s not a limelight guy,” said Jerilyn Perine, executive director of the nonprofit Citizens Housing and Planning Council and a former commissioner of the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. “He’s not a big self-promoter. I think he’s been more effective as a result.”
The Lease Is Up, but He Stays Put
By Alex Mindlin, New York Times, March 2, 2008
Presumably, not everyone is rooting for Mr. Gregory. “There are thousands of people on line for that apartment,” said Jerilyn Perine, a former city housing official and the executive director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a policy group. “That’s one of the realities of living in a city where the shortage of housing is so extreme. Everyone’s fighting for the crumbs.”
New York Anxiety Attack
By Erik Engquist, Crain’s New York, January 12, 2008
“The result reflects the barbell effect we're having with income," says Jerilyn Perine, the city's housing commissioner from 2000 to 2004 and now executive director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York. "We used to have a bell curve, with most people in the middle. Now you're seeing a flattening of that curve and a growing high end and a growing poverty rate."
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