NYC Housing Advocacy

About My advocacy

What is this

At the risk of adding another voice to the already saturated Housing Advocacy arena, I have decided to build this to host my Master's Thesis project in Housing Advocacy at CUNY-John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

I want to acknowledge some awesome folks for their guidance and support.

Prof. Frank Chen - Thank you for softly helping me understand the best way.
Chunki Fong - You are a data genius who inspires me every day.
Sunil Mehta - You are kind beyond measure.
Ken Smith & John Kurpierz - Your commitment to the FA paradigm became my lynch pin!
Sarah Stefanski [IBO]- for being the first to let me see the impact of the Preferential Rent partial data.
The data teams at the NYC Council & Comptroller's offices for providing foil guidance for data access.

Some definitions

Citizen: Any human residing in New York City.
Housing: Affordable housing available in New York City.
Advocacy: The systematic gathering and analysis of information to report on program or policy performance to advocate for curbing its damaging effects.
Customer: Citizen requiring the assistance and services of a New York City housing agency.
Interest Group: A group of individuals with a common interest, working together to influence public policy.
"Tone at the Top" - Defined in Accounting/Audit as the values, ethics, and culture of individuals at the head of organizations.
Stakeholder Agency: Any agency directly, or indirectly, related to housing administration, regulation, and oversight. [Includes: HPD, HCR, NYCHA, State Comptroller's Office, City Comptroller's Office, Department of Investigation - HPD OIG, and others]
Elected Official: Any NYC & NYS Elected Official engaged in setting or passing housing policy for NYC. [Includes: NYC Council; NYS Assembly; Governor's Office; Mayor's Office; Senator's Office, and others].
Protected Group: Group identified as protected under Disparate Impact of the Fair Housing Act of 1968

What this site offers

Data

Access to multiple forms of data collated by many players in the Housing Advocacy Environment in NYC

Download Housing Related Data

space to find some guidance

Provide citizens with requisite agency information and process to access for getting the complaint to the right agency/official

Find out which Agency addresses your needs

report on agency interactions

Provide citizens with a "Customer Satisfaction Survey" for any housing related agency, where citizen can share their, anonymous, experiences with responsible agency. This information will be sent to the agency, its oversight regulator, and Citizen's elected officials upon completion

File a Complaint or provide customer feedback