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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 shareholders voted in 2011 to extend its contract with the city until 2030; in return, the city government awarded the co-op more than $25 million to rehabilitate the complex's HVAC system. [36] In February 2017, the New York City Council extended Penn South's tax abatement to 2052, ninety years after the development's opening. [51]
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.
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.
In 1975, the New York City fiscal crisis caused most of the funding programs for co-op programs to collapse. The Association of Neighborhood Housing Developers (ANHD) and UHAB aided the tenants in the programs, however only 48 of the 286 formed or prospective low-income co-ops in 1973 were eventually completed. [13]
Inch & Co. is seeking a tax exemption from the Central York School District for its planned $38.5 million sports complex, but the board has turned down the company's request.
Lindsay Park is a housing cooperative located in the East Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. The cooperative is part of the Mitchell-Lama Housing Program, through which the state of New York grants it tax exemptions to maintain affordability. [1] With 2702 units, it is the largest Mitchell-Lama co-op in Brooklyn.