The BRI and Welcome Home Westchester Pen Letter of Support for Affordable Housing Investment Fund in the Capital Budget
The 2019 Westchester County Housing Needs Assessment and the subsequent years of budget investment to assist with land acquisition and infrastructure projects that would support new housing developments are moving the needle in terms of addressing this shortage and leading local municipalities by example. This Read More »
Statement for Westchester County’s 2023 Proposed Capital Budget
The proposed 2023 Capital Budget has been released by County Executive George Latimer on October 13, 2022. The Welcome Home Westchester campaign believes that this budget proposal – which includes $90 million in affordable housing incentives — will be an excellent step towards addressing the housing Read More »
Press Release: The Building & Realty Institute and 32BJ SEIU Reach Tentative Agreement on New Four-Year Contract, Covering 500 Residential Buildings and 1,400 Residential Building Service Workers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Anika Nahar, Campaign Communications Coordinator opens in a new windowanika@buildersinstitute.orgcreate new email The Building & Realty Institute and 32BJ SEIU Reach Tentative Agreement on New Four-Year Contract, Covering 500 Residential Buildings and 1,400 Residential Building Service Read More »
Welcome Home Westchester Releases 3-Minute Video on Building the Housing We Need
This 3 minute video explains the importance of building more housing of all different shapes and sizes — not just mansions and high-rises, but duplexes, townhouses, bungalows, accessory dwelling units, and transit-oriented developments — and what local cities, towns, and villages should consider in order Read More »
Press Release: The Building & Realty Institute (BRI) Reacts to the Westchester County Rent Guidelines Board’s Final Vote
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Anika Nahar, Campaign Communications Coordinatoranika@buildersinstitute.orgcreate new email The Building & Realty Institute (BRI) Reacts to the Westchester County Rent Guidelines Board’s Final VoteBoard Vote Spares Property Owners Another Rent Freeze But Falls Short of Covering Skyrocketing Costs (ARMONK, N.Y.) On Monday, June 27, 2022, the Read More »
The BRI Unveils Legislative Agenda for 2022
As many of you know, the Board of Trustees went through a strategic planning process throughout 2020-2021. In that process, it was determined that the BRI’s advocacy program was too reliant on ad hoc conversations of the issues of the day. We were simply not Read More »
Press Release: The Building and Realty Institute (BRI) and Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors (HGAR) Urge Legislators to Confront Legacy of Housing Discrimination by Eliminating Restrictive Covenants
(ARMONK, N.Y.) Members of the Building and Realty Institute (BRI) and Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors (HGAR) joined together to pen a letter to members of the New York Senate representing Westchester County and the Hudson Valley, urging them to confront the region’s legacy of Read More »
Welcome Home Westchester Releases Study: Multi-Family Housing Development Impacts in Westchester County Part One: School District Enrollment
Westchester badly needs more housing. Opponents of multifamily housing projects often cite a potential increase in school-aged children and a predicted drain on local school resources as a reason to oppose building badly needed multifamily housing, especially affordable workforce housing pegged to middle-class incomes. Neighborhood defenders Read More »
Welcome Home Westchester Releases the “2 in ‘22” Agenda for Municipalities
Each city, town, and village within Westchester County has established land use boards to review site plan reviews, subdivisions, variances, and special-use permits. But there exists a wide and uneven variation between how boards function in different communities, both because the municipal code requirements are Read More »
Press Conference: Unveiling Our Research on the Impact on Schools from Multi-Family Housing Developments
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 | 10am via Zoom opens in a new windowRegister here.