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Press Release: The Welcome Home Westchester Campaign Among Honorees for New York Housing Conference’s 2022 Public Service Award
CONTACT: Anika Nahar, Campaign Communications Coordinator The Building and Realty Institute of Westchester and the Mid-Hudson Region anika@buildersinstitute.org The Welcome Home Westchester Campaign Among Honorees for New York Housing Conference’s 2022 Public Service Award (ARMONK, N.Y.) The Welcome Home Westchester campaign was recognized for its work in public service at Read More »
The BRI and Welcome Home Westchester Pen Letter of Support for Affordable Housing Investment Fund in the Capital Budget
The 2019 Westchester County Housing Needs Assessment and the subsequent years of budget investment to assist with land acquisition and infrastructure projects that would support new housing developments are moving the needle in terms of addressing this shortage and leading local municipalities by example. This Read More »
Statement for Westchester County’s 2023 Proposed Capital Budget
The proposed 2023 Capital Budget has been released by County Executive George Latimer on October 13, 2022. The Welcome Home Westchester campaign believes that this budget proposal – which includes $90 million in affordable housing incentives — will be an excellent step towards addressing the housing Read More »
Welcome Home Westchester Releases 3-Minute Video on Building the Housing We Need
This 3 minute video explains the importance of building more housing of all different shapes and sizes — not just mansions and high-rises, but duplexes, townhouses, bungalows, accessory dwelling units, and transit-oriented developments — and what local cities, towns, and villages should consider in order Read More »
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 Read More »
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 Read More »
Press Conference: Unveiling Our Research on the Impact on Schools from Multi-Family Housing Developments
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 | 10am via Zoom opens in a new windowRegister here.
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 | opens in a new windowFeatured 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 Read More »
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 Read More »
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 Read More »