Welcome to the Web pages of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). HPD's mission is to promote the affordability, availability, and quality of housing across the city. HPD's Web pages are a comprehensive resource for tenants, homeowners, people looking for homes and apartments, community groups, building owners, lenders, contractors, developers, vendors, students, and individuals needing assistance to address a particular housing concern.
This administration's housing agenda, The New Housing Marketplace: Creating Housing for the Next Generation, is an ambitious $7.5 billion plan to fund the creation and
preservation of more than 165,000 homes and apartments over ten years. It is the
largest municipal housing plan in the nation's history.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said, "Good, affordable housing in safe, stable neighborhoods is fundamental to building a city of opportunity for everyone."
Mayor Bloomberg's plan, "The New Housing Marketplace: Creating Housing for the Next Generation," includes a stream of initiatives that will facilitate private investment in housing. Part of the plan is to remove barriers to development and reduce the costs of construction.
In conjunction with "The New Housing Marketplace," the Department of City Planning will prioritize rezoning in communities throughout the city in neighborhoods ripe for private housing development. HPD will allocate funds for low-interest loans to acquire and clean up former manufacturing sites for housing development.
HPD has sponsored the construction or rehabilitation of over 229,000 homes and apartments across the City since Fiscal Year 1987. We also have trained thousands of building owners and superintendents in maintaining building systems and in building finances. We also do outreach to building owners, tenants, and community groups to halt and reverse deterioration of the existing housing stock. According to the 2005 Housing and Vacancy Survey, housing and neighborhood physical conditions in the City are better now than at any other time in the 37-year history of the survey.
The pictures on the Web site give us an opportunity to show you what we are doing in neighborhoods city-wide. Or try our self-guided walking tours of our developments in Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick to see housing and community revitalization in action.
We add information to our site almost every week about affordable housing opportunities, free classes, useful phone numbers, forms, press releases, and current information about our programs and services.
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