In Conversation: How NYC’s Housing Crisis Is Squeezing Tenants and Small Homeowners

Recorded live at HANAC Harmony JVL Older Adult Center in Astoria, this installment of In Conversation: The Affordability Series examines New York City’s small two and three family homes, where an owner may live in one unit and rent out another. The conversation explores rising costs, limited tenant protections, basement apartment legalization, home flipping and what it would take to keep more New Yorkers in their homes.

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Photo: Carla Wills/WNYC

Guests:

Andrea Jerves, Director of Social Service Programs, Grants Administration and Compliance at HANAC

Doreen Mohammed, member of the Astoria Tenants Union

James Carr, member of the Astoria Tenants Union

Oudit Beharry, homeowner

Scott Kohanowski, General Counsel at the Center for NYC Neighborhoods

Annetta Seecharran, Executive Director of Chhaya Community Development Corporation

Troy Kingston, content creator known as Scourge Bliss

Brad Greenburg, Executive Director of the NYU Furman Center