The Welcome Home Westchester Campaign Releases First White Paper: The Economic Benefits of Building the Housing We Need
(Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.) The Welcome Home Westchester coalition and allied organizations held a press conference on Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 12:00 noon to introduce the release of the campaign’s first white paper: The Economic Benefits of Building the Housing We Need. The event was […]
The BRI Unveils Legislative Agenda for 2022
As many of you know, the Board of Trustees went through a strategic planning process throughout 2020-2021. In that process, it was determined that the BRI’s advocacy program was too reliant on ad hoc conversations of the issues of the day. We were simply not […]
The Building and Realty Institute (BRI) and Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors (HGAR) Urge Legislators to Confront Legacy of Housing Discrimination by Eliminating Restrictive Covenants
(ARMONK, N.Y.) Members of the Building and Realty Institute (BRI) and Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors (HGAR) joined together to pen a letter to members of the New York Senate representing Westchester County and the Hudson Valley, urging them to confront the region’s legacy of […]
Welcome Home Westchester Releases Study: Multi-Family Housing Development Impacts in Westchester County Part One: School District Enrollment
Westchester badly needs more housing. Opponents of multifamily housing projects often cite a potential increase in school-aged children and a predicted drain on local school resources as a reason to oppose building badly needed multifamily housing, especially affordable workforce housing pegged to middle-class incomes. Neighborhood defenders […]
Welcome Home Westchester Releases the “2 in ‘22” Agenda for Municipalities
Each city, town, and village within Westchester County has established land use boards to review site plan reviews, subdivisions, variances, and special-use permits. But there exists a wide and uneven variation between how boards function in different communities, both because the municipal code requirements are […]
Press Conference: Unveiling Our Research on the Impact on Schools from Multi-Family Housing Developments
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 | 10am via ZoomRegister here.
Press release: County Executive George Latimer, Building & Realty Institute (BRI) & 32BJ Team Up to Distribute Covid-19 Test Kits
Press release provided by the Westchester County Government. You may also go to YouTube to watch the full briefing. Westchester County Executive George Latimer was joined by 32BJ SEIU and the Building & Realty Institute […]
Op-Ed: New York must address its housing affordability crisis before it’s too late
Written by Welcome Home Westchester Steering Committee members: Tim Foley and Michael N. Romita | Featured on Lohud. In her executive budget, Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed streamlined, as-of-right zoning legislation for both accessory dwelling units and transit-oriented development. The bills were criticized by many […]
Welcome Home Westchester’s Statement to The Westchester Senate Delegation Budget Forum
As with last week’s public hearing for the New York State Assembly Delegation, today’s Senate budget hearing showed that support is strong for modest tools that could make a big difference in addressing our housing shortage. Nearly a dozen people cited providing more housing as a […]
Press Release: Businesses, Construction Trades, Real Estate, and Nonprofits Join to Advocate for Statewide Solutions to our Housing Crisis
The BRI and Welcome Home Westchester are committed to helping solve the housing crisis in Westchester. Along with community leaders from Westchester County Association (WCA), Nonprofit Westchester (NPW), the Construction Industry Council of Westchester and Hudson Valley […]
Welcome Home Westchester’s Statement on Westchester Assembly Delegation’s Budget Hearing
Anyone who was expecting to hear a unified voice of Not in My Backyard rejection of the Governor’s proposals around housing, including accessory dwelling units and transit-oriented development, would have been surprised at today’s Westchester Assembly Delegation budget hearing. At least a dozen speakers spoke in support […]
The BRI Provides Testimony for the Joint Legislative Hearing on Housing for the FY2023 Budget
Submitted by Timothy Foley, CEO of the Building & Realty Institute January 27, 2021 I am submitting this testimony on the Governor’s budget on behalf of the Building & Realty Institute of Westchester & the Mid-Hudson Region (BRI), which is comprised of members who are homebuilders, remodelers, […]