Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) has launched a data portal to provide clarity about the impact and trade-offs of prevailing wages on affordable housing. Public policy should be clear about the problem it intends to solve, how it will address the...
As part of an urgent response to support NYCHA, Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) put forth a bold idea to reform New York City’s Co-op & Condo Tax Abatement program to help the city pay for NYCHA’s capital needs. NYCHA’s large capital needs require a...
CHPC has applied its innovative Making Neighborhoods demographic analysis model to the New York metropolitan region. Using clustering techniques to analyze federal decennial census data, we are able to create this stunning interactive tool that allows users to...
CHPC created an interactive map of NYC’s Opportunity Zones and conducted analysis to understand which types of housing stock are located within them. What are Opportunity Zones? Opportunity Zones are a federal community development program meant to encourage...
This interactive map was created alongside Hidden Housing report, to help bridge the gap between the report’s recommendations for a basement conversions pilot program and their implementation. In 2016, CHPC launched its Hidden Housing study to investigate the...
CHPC is proud to present “Life of a Building”, an online educational game showing the challenges of keeping an old rental building in good financial and physical health. Play the game and see if you can make it to 15 years! PLAY NOW! Whether you won or you...
