Looking for solutions that address your community’s affordable housing needs? Curious about the infamously successful New York City model for limited equity cooperatives that have helped tenants and residents achieve affordable housing goals for decades?
Join the Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF)’s Affordable Housing Initiative on April 30, 2025 from 3:00-4:30 p.m. EDT for a presentation on the New York model—and how and why it works. We will explore the key ingredients that unlock this powerful tool in meeting the community’s affordable housing needs so that you, too, can adopt or adapt your municipal or citywide regulations to encourage the kinds of models that allow residents to meet their housing needs on their terms.
Speakers
- Debbie Bechtel Associate Professor of Clinical Law Emerita, Brooklyn Law School
- Margy Brown Executive Director, Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB)
- Stephen Erdman Assistant Commissioner, Homeownership Opportunities & Preservation, NYC Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development
- Guillermo Lara Shareholder, Housing Development Fund Corporation in Harlem, New York; and Member, UHAB Board of Directors
Resources
N.Y. Real Property Law Journal, Spring/Summer 2020 | Vol. 48 | No. 2
Co-operate! Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives, a Model Providing Permanent Affordability