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Housing

Read our latest report: Flexible Co-Living: Advancing a New Housing Model for Office-to-Residential Conversions in NYC
Affordable housing initiatives and innovations across the nation

As rents shatter records in the city and mortgage rates remain sky high, 5BORO is taking a look at some of the newest and most innovative affordable housing initiatives taking root in cities and counties across the country. There’s no silver bullet, but these approaches may inspire new ideas for NYC and build on existing […]

Testimony: Joint Legislative Public Hearing on 2023 Executive Budget Proposal – Housing

Wednesday March 1, 2023 Hon. Liz Krueger, Chair, NYS Senate, Finance Hon. Helene Weinstein, Chair, NYS Assembly, Ways & Means Thank you for the opportunity to submit testimony on behalf of the 5BORO Institute – a think tank dedicated to advancing innovative and implementable solutions to tackle NYC’s most challenging problems. We write to express […]

Testimony: New York City Council Hearing on Land Use

Tuesday, February 28, 2023 Thank you for the opportunity to submit testimony on behalf of the 5BORO Institute – a think tank dedicated to advancing innovative and implementable solutions to tackle NYC’s most challenging problems.  We write to express support for Reso. 0503 to call on the State legislature to: Expand office to residential conversions […]