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Amalgamated Housing Cooperative (1927, 1947–49, expansion 1952–55, 1968–70 Bronx, "The Amalgamated", 1,435 units; still operating as a co-operative; Amalgamated Dwellings (1930), in Cooperative Village, Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, 236 units; Hillman Housing Corporation (1947–1950), in Cooperative Village, 807 units
Under this law, the city of New York is able to sell buildings directly to tenant or community groups to provide low-income housing. Many HDFCs were created through a process of co-op conversion of a foreclosed, city-owned property. As of 2008, over 1,000 HDFC cooperatives have been developed in the city.
It was an early example of New York City squatter activism, which strengthened in the 1980s, and helped publicize tenant rights. [ 4 ] The movement primarily consisted of African-American and Latino activists, [ 5 ] who were opposed to the eviction of working-class and poor tenants from their homes.
Co-op city in the Bronx, a Mitchell–Lama development [1] The Mitchell–Lama Housing Program is a non-subsidy governmental housing guarantee in the state of New York. It was sponsored by New York State Senator MacNeil Mitchell and Assemblyman Alfred A. Lama and signed into law in 1955. [2] [3]
Penn South, officially known as Mutual Redevelopment Houses and formerly Penn Station South, is a limited-equity [1] housing cooperative development located between Eighth and Ninth Avenues and West 23rd and 29th Streets, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The complex has 2,820 units in ten 22-story buildings.
Umbrella House is a former squat [1] and a Housing Development Fund Corporation in New York City's East Village, at 21-23 Avenue C. [2] The squat, formed in 1988, was known for its political engagement and high level of collective organization among its members. [3] In 2010, the building officially became a housing cooperative. [3]
An analysis in 2015 showed approximately 1,300 existing Housing Development Fund Corporations (HDFC) (a form of limited equity cooperative in NYC), the majority of which had been created in the 1970's and 80's and clustered in low-income areas. They had primarily been created through the CMP, the TIL program, and Third Party Transfer program.
The Amalgamated Housing Cooperative is a limited-equity cooperative in New York City. Organized by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (ACW), a Manhattan-based socialist labor union, the co-op's original cluster of Tudor-style buildings was erected at the southern edge of Van Cortlandt Park in 1927. Additional buildings were added in the post ...