Affordability and Preservation
Special interest groups like the Real Estate Board of New York that have long opposed landmarking or other limits on development used to argue that landmarking strangled economic development and ruined the values of property. Now they try to argue that landmarking promotes gentrification and makes New York unaffordable. Village Preservation has been a leader in confronting and refuting these lies, and demonstrating how landmarking can have a positive, stabilizing effect – on residents, neighborhoods, on property values, on small businesses, and on community character. We also work closely with affordable housing and tenant groups in our neighborhoods to both help protect existing affordable housing and promote the inclusion of new affordable housing in our neighborhoods.
Campaign Links
Village Preservation Testimony to City Council in Opposition to SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Proposal
11/08/2021
Village Preservation Testimony at City Planning Commission Hearing on SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning
09/02/2021
Preservation League of NYS Letter to Manhattan Borough President re SoHo NoHo rezoning ULURP
08/17/2021
Joint Preservation Organizations Letter to City Officials Opposing City’s SoHo/NoHo Upzoning Plan
12/18/2020
SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Draft Scope of Work
10/28/2020
Updates
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January 23, 2023
Push Begins Again to Overturn State Law Allowing Supersized Development in NYC — Help Us Fight It!
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September 13, 2022
Panel Next Wednesday, September 21: YIMBY vs. NIMBY — Looking Past Labels To Real World Impacts
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August 5, 2022
Village Preservation Op-Ed: Putting the Lie to “Build Baby Build”… Facts Show Unbridled Market-Rate Development Spurs Gentrification
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January 18, 2022
Victory: Punitive SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Measure Vetoed!
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January 11, 2022
Urge Mayor Adams to Veto Draconian SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Measure
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December 16, 2021
City Council Approves SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning + Displacement Plan
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December 13, 2021
SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Rezoning Reminder: Final Vote as Soon as Wednesday, Call and E-Mail TODAY
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December 10, 2021
City Council Committee Approves SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning + Displacement Plan With Modifications
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December 8, 2021
Council Appears Poised to Vote on SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Plan Today, December 9, as New Financial Analysis Shows Fatal Flaws in Affordable Housing Claims
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December 3, 2021
City Council Vote On SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Pushed Back to Week of December 6 — CALL AND WRITE NOW!
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November 29, 2021
SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Vote Likely This Week — Flood the City Council With Calls and Letters
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November 23, 2021
SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Rezoning Vote Likely After Thanksgiving; Video and Final Push for ‘No’ Vote
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November 23, 2021
New Oral History: Ayo Harrington and the Struggles for Civil Rights, Urban Homesteading, Community Gardens, and Educational Equality
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November 12, 2021
Opponents Vastly Outnumber Supporters At Rezoning Hearing; Village Preservation Releases Study Showing City Projections for Neighborhood Rezonings Are ‘Less Reliable Than Flipping a Coin’
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November 9, 2021
Final SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning Public Hearing Today — PLEASE TESTIFY AND/OR SUBMIT COMMENTS!
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November 2, 2021
City Council Virtual Public Hearing on Disastrous SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning Plan Next Tuesday, Nov. 9, around 11:30 am
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October 26, 2021
More Evidence that Upzoning Makes New York Less Affordable, Not More, and the Reality Deniers
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October 21, 2021
City Planning Commission Approves SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Rezoning Plan with Changes that Are ‘Less Than Nothing’; Now Heads to City Council
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October 8, 2021
City Proposes Further ‘Changes’ to Upzoning Proposal for SoHo, NoHo, and Chinatown that Amount to Nothing
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October 8, 2021
Village Preservation Op-Ed: ‘Trickle Down’ Affordable Housing in NYC Is a Fail; Don’t Force It on SoHo, NoHo and Chinatown
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September 24, 2021
City Signals Window-Dressing Changes to SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan
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September 16, 2021
Exposing the City’s False Affordable Housing Claims for SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Rezoning
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September 3, 2021
Opponents Overwhelm Six-Hour City Planning SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Hearing; City’s Baseless Claims of Racism Face Backlash; Elected Officials Join Opposition
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August 31, 2021
City Planning Commission SoHo/NoHo Upzoning Hearing This Thursday, September 2, 10 am
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August 19, 2021
Details on SoHo/NoHo Hearings, New Data Shows Falsehoods and Lies Behind Rezoning
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August 10, 2021
Borough President’s Public Hearing on SoHo/NoHo Monday, August 23, 6-8 pm; City Planning Hearing Likely Day of September 2
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August 5, 2021
Manhattan Borough President’s SoHo/NoHo Hearing Likely Monday, August 23
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July 28, 2021
Community Board 2 Overwhelmingly Rejects SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan; BP and CPC To Hold Hearings
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July 23, 2021
SoHo/NoHo Updates: Final Community Board Vote Monday 6:30 pm; Elected Officials Silent on or Support Slanderous Attacks on Plan Opponents; City Planning Hearing Likely Sept. 1
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July 14, 2021
City Defames Community Groups Who Oppose SoHo/NoHo Plan; Documenting Vulnerable Tenants Rezoning Plan Will Hurt; New Flyer to Mobilize Neighbors Against Upzoning
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June 25, 2021
Huge Turnout for SoHo/NoHo Hearing, Housing/Tenant and Neighborhood Groups United in Opposition
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June 23, 2021
Affordable Housing and Tenant Groups, SoHo, NoHo, and Chinatown Neighborhood Organizations, and Artists and Historic Preservationists Slam de Blasio SoHo/NoHo Upzoning Plan, Urge “NO” Vote
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June 21, 2021
Community Board 2 SoHo/NoHo Public Hearing Now In Person: Wednesday at 6:30 pm, Press Conference at 6 pm
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June 14, 2021
Reminders: Annual Meeting and Village Awards this Wednesday; SoHo/NoHo Public Hearing June 23 and 24
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June 4, 2021
First Official SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Hearings — Community Board 2, June 23 and 24
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May 28, 2021
SoHo/NoHo Update: Certified Plan Contains Demographic Deception and NYU Welcome Mat; Community Groups Demand Electeds Reject
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May 19, 2021
De Blasio’s SoHo/NoHo Plan Is Certified, Largely Unchanged; Public Review Process To Begin
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May 14, 2021
Report Shows City’s SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan Unlikely To Produce Any Affordable Housing
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May 13, 2021
Tenant Advocates and SoHo, NoHo, Chinatown Communities Unite vs. Mayor’s Upzoning Plan
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May 6, 2021
Rally for SoHo, NoHo, and Chinatown and Against City Upzoning Plan Monday at Noon
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May 6, 2021
Remembering Jane Jacobs on Her Birthday
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May 3, 2021
City Delays SoHo/NoHo Certification Without Explanation; Citywide Tenant and Housing Groups Come Out Strongly Against Mayor’s Plan; Neighbors File Lawsuit
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April 30, 2021
Important SoHo/NoHo Updates — Opposition Grows, Mayoral Candidates Opine, Plan To Move Monday
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April 30, 2021
Look At All We’ve Accomplished!
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April 23, 2021
New Images Show The Tip of The SoHo/NoHo Upzoning Iceberg
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April 8, 2021
Sign and Share the Petition to NYC Mayoral Candidates
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March 29, 2021
Sign The Petition to NYC Mayoral Candidates: Our Next Mayor Must Value Preserving Landmarks and Neighborhoods
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March 14, 2021
City’s SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan Includes Part of Chinatown, and Hundreds of Rent Regulated Units Could Be Lost
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March 9, 2021
Virtual Town Hall and Teach-In on SoHo/NoHo Upzoning Plan and Study Exposing Its True Impacts: Monday, March 15 at 6pm
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March 5, 2021
Study: City’s Proposed SoHo/NoHo Upzoning Would Make Neighborhoods Richer, Whiter, and More Expensive
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December 8, 2020
Community Board 2 Meeting on SoHo/NoHo Upzoning Plan Tonight, Tuesday 12/8 at 6:30 pm
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December 2, 2020
Community Alternative Rezoning Plan For SoHo And NoHo — Public Hearings 12/3 And 12/8
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November 24, 2020
Hearing on Scope of the Environmental Review for Proposed SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan December 3
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October 27, 2020
De Blasio SoHo/NoHo Plan Even Worse Than We Expected
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October 19, 2020
First SoHo-NoHo Upzoning+Rezoning Public Meeting Next Monday, October 26, 6-8pm Sign Up To Speak TODAY!
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October 9, 2020
Plan To Upzone and Rezone SoHo and NoHo Announced Details Are Scarce, But Indications Raise Big Concerns and Conflicts of Interest; Local Elected Officials, Citywide Candidates, and Real Estate Interests Back Move
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September 25, 2020
NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer Comes Out In Support of SoHo/NoHo Upzoning, Saying They’re “Critical” In Neighborhoods Like SoHo
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September 22, 2020
Op-Ed Rejects SoHo/NoHo Upzoning Arguments
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September 16, 2020
Confronting Renewed SoHo/NoHo Upzoning Push From Groups With (Undisclosed) Vested Interests
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January 23, 2020
There’s Been A Lot of Talk About Affordable Housing in SoHo and NoHo. Here’s What They Really Mean
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November 11, 2016
A Landmark of Affordable Housing
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August 25, 2016
Fighting the Mayor’s Plan to Replace Historic East 11th Street Housing with Hotel
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August 18, 2016
Monday, August 22nd Rally to Protest East 11th Street Demolition
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June 9, 2016
Demolition of Affordable Housing, and Landmarking
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December 11, 2015
Why Affordable Housing Advocates Should Oppose the City’s Rezoning Plans
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September 16, 2015
REBNY Report on Landmarking Refuted by Own Datasource, Preservationists, Affordable Housing Advocates
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September 15, 2015
PRESS RELEASE September 15, 2015 For Immediate Release
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May 8, 2015
Reaching Out to Mayor de Blasio on Housing Plan Op-Ed: Real Estate’s Attempt to Co-opt the Affordable Housing Discussion
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April 2, 2015
Village Preservation RELEASES REPORT SHOWING REBNY’S REAL RECORD ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
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September 25, 2014
Big Turnout, Big Ideas At Affordable Housing + Preservation Plan
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September 3, 2014
Affordable Housing and Preservation Roundtable September 16
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May 14, 2014
Reaching Out to Mayor de Blasio on Housing Plan, Improving the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
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October 29, 2013
“Preservationists Call REBNY’s Bluff On Landmarking and Affordability”
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August 7, 2013
Don’t Believe REBNY’s Hype; Preservation Can Help Affordability
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