CHPC’s mission, since 1937, is to develop and advance practical public policies that support the housing stock of the city by better understanding New York’s most pressing housing and neighborhood needs.
Regulatory Reform for Basement Apartments
In this policy brief, CHPC identifies regulatory reforms that could facilitate basement apartment conversions by making them safer, easier, and more affordable.Many of New York City’s basement apartments exist within the gray market, due to the financial and...
Housing Plan for a City of Immigrants
A housing plan for a city of immigrants will advance opportunity for millions of New Yorkers and secure the city's future as a diverse, thriving metropolis. The next housing plan can align the city's housing policy with its past, present, and future as a city of...
Rezoning SoHo/NoHo
Rezoning SoHo/NoHo is a crucial first step towards a more equitable development framework for New York City.CHPC has been a leading voice in discussions surrounding the ongoing process to rezone SoHo/NoHo. Although the lower Manhattan neighborhood was once a haven...
The Final Countdown
In The Final Countdown, CHPC recommends five housing policy strategies to build a more equitable New York City and to end the mayoral term with progress & results. The Final Countdown: 1. Rezone SoHo/NoHo for a more equitable NYC 2. Equitable code...
Equitable Code Enforcement
Enforcement of the city's buildings codes can keep us safe, but it can also be a major contributor to inequity in cities on a daily basis. CHPC explores how, and sets out recommendations for equitable code enforcement.CHPC is committed to advancing equity through...
Public Housing Revolution
The Public Housing Revolution: Lessons from London report is part of a CHPC initiative to learn about how England’s public housing conditions were radically improved, by pairing the expertise of residents with the resources of the affordable housing industry, and...
CHPC Policy Responses to COVID-19
Read CHPC's policy responses to housing during a global pandemic
Density and COVID-19 in NYC
Since New York City emerged as a hotspot for COVID-19, government leaders and other prominent figures have implicated density as a reason for the growth of the pandemic in the city. Yet "density" is a catchall term that encapsulates many aspects of urban...
A New Lens for NYC’s Housing Plan
A New Lens for NYC’s Housing Plan is a research initiative of Citizens Housing & Planning Council. A New Lens for NYC’s Housing Plan explores how housing policy can have an impact beyond creating and preserving a certain number of affordable housing units. CHPC...
CHPC in the Media
Amid COVID and Fiscal Woes, Mayor’s Housing Plan Enters Stretch Run
Two other flaws of the de Blasio housing plan were leaving out NYCHA and its treatment of homelessness. Katz said the housing plan did not include NYCHA because it was already considered affordable housing and it was decided early on that it could not count, which...
Op-Ed | In Upper West Side homeless controversy, city should support vulnerable New Yorkers
By Jessica Katz Sept 16, 2020 The intensification of New York’s homeless crisis is one of the starkest examples of COVID’s impact in laying bare the deep inequalities across our city. Many of the vacant hotels-turned-shelters which the City created to support the...
City Limits Opinion: The Window is Closing to Rezone for a More Equitable SoHo
By Jessica Katz Sept 1, 2020Hard as it is to believe for a young person or newcomer struggling to make it in New York City, SoHo was once an affordable neighborhood. Decades ago, it became a haven for low-income residents who created a thriving community among its...
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