NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD)

09/15/2026

This Hispanic Heritage Month, HPD honors the Hispanic leaders who have shaped housing, planning, and public service and whose efforts continue to shape New York City today 🏙️

Who’s a leader in housing or community work that has inspired you? Share a name with us!



🎨: Ayan Rahman, HPD Digital Specialist

09/14/2026

As we lay out our ambitious goals for the coming years, we’re spending the next few months thinking through how we can work more effectively toward the commitments we’ve made to New Yorkers.

HPD Commissioner Dina Levy kicked off a series of staff listening sessions, bringing together colleagues from across the agency to talk candidly about what’s working, what could work better, and where we have opportunities to improve the way we do things.

In small breakout groups, staff shared ideas on everything from mission alignment and internal processes to how we prioritize work and make the agency more efficient. During our discussions, they emphasized improvements not only for the public, but for the team members doing the work every day.

This is one of several listening sessions with staff across the agency, and an important part of shaping HPD’s strategic planning for the months ahead. We’re listening and taking notes as we build out the next chapter for HPD ✏️📄



📸: Ayan Rahman, HPD Digital Specialist

09/14/2026

Training in action! 🎤🏙️

Our latest cohort of field interviewers is getting ready to talk with New Yorkers about their experiences living in our city for the NYCHVS.

These field interviewers are on the frontlines of helping us better understand New York City’s housing crisis. They’re excited to get out into communities and hear directly from you 🫵🏽

So if one of our NYCHVS interviewers comes to your door, say hi! They’re researchers working with the City to understand how New Yorkers live and what our housing needs look like. Let your friends and family know who they are, welcome them in, and help us make sure your community’s experiences are represented in the survey.

This group is made up of new field interviewers as part of our Survey Research Operations, in partnership with the University of Michigan Institute for Survey Research, getting them ready to talk to New Yorkers about their experiences living in their neighborhood. We’re bringing the survey directly to New Yorkers—conducting interviews in their neighborhood, in their native languages, making it easier for their experiences, needs, and voices to shape the future of housing in our city. 🏠📊



📸: Ayan Rahman, HPD Digital Specialist

09/10/2026

Find an affordable home as the fall kicks in 🍁🍂 This month, we’re featuring rent prices as low as $1681 per month, along with accessible studios and 1-, 2-, and 3-bedroom apartments across NYC!

🔗 Visit housingconnect.nyc.gov to learn more and apply today ✨

09/09/2026

Today, HPD Commissioner Dina Levy returned to City Council to testify on the work underway across our agency and what comes next.

In the four months since her last appearance before the Council, we’ve launched Fix the City to strengthen enforcement against chronically negligent landlords and partnered with the courts to move the most urgent housing cases faster. We've also committed to a new inspection protocol when first attempts to gain access are unsuccessful, allowing tenants to schedule a second inspection at a specific date and time. We launched new tools to support affordable buildings and continued ramping up affordable housing production and preservation.

Commissioner Levy discussed our commitment to building 28,000 affordable homes and preserving another 28,000 over the next two fiscal years. She also committed to expanding pathways to homeownership, investing in healthier and more equitable neighborhoods, and strengthening partnerships throughout the city.

The message throughout today’s hearing was clear: tackling New York City’s housing crisis means doing all of this work at once. This means protecting tenants, preserving the homes we already have, building more and making our government work better.

Thank you to Chair Pierina Sanchez and the members of the Council for the continued partnership and conversation.


📸: Ayan Rahman, HPD Digital Specialist

09/03/2026

HPD Deputy Commissioner for Development Patrick Love had a packed schedule today, and we tagged along for a few stops 🏗️🏠

We started bright and early at Hunter’s Point South, Queens, where Patrick completed an interview with Doyoung Kwak of The Dong-A Ilbo (동아일보) about The Orion, HPD’s newly announced development project to transform a long-vacant City-owned site into nearly 1,000 new homes. Two-thirds of the apartments will be affordable, alongside supportive housing, a daycare, workforce development center, community pool, and neighborhood retail.

From there, we walked next door to Gotham Point, a chance to see what this kind of public-land development can look like once it’s complete. 75% of the two-tower development is affordable housing, bringing 1,132 homes to the Hunter’s Point South waterfront, including 849 affordable apartments and 90 units of dedicated housing for low-income seniors, along with community, retail, arts, and waterfront amenities.

Then we headed north to the Bronx to celebrate the ribbon cutting for Comunilife, Inc.’s El Hogar Residence, alongside New York State Governor Kathy Hochul and Bronx Borough President Hon. Vanessa L. Gibson, MPA (She, Her, Hers, Ella). Built on a former parking lot, El Hogar brings 83 affordable and supportive homes for older New Yorkers, including 50 homes for formerly homeless seniors, with on-site case management, health services, and programming to help residents age safely in their community. HPD helped finance the project through our Senior Affordable Rental Apartments program, funded jointly by HPD and HCR. After the event, we were able to speak to a few residents of the building – it is always powerful to listen to the experiences of the New Yorkers that are impacted and supported by the affordable housing we build.

From planning what comes next, to visiting communities we’ve already helped build, to welcoming New Yorkers into new homes; a busy day, but exactly the kind of work we’re proud to do.



📸: Ayan Rahman, HPD Digital Specialist

08/26/2026

Delivering justice faster means protecting tenants sooner.

Yesterday, HPD Commissioner Dina Levy helped mark a major step forward in the City’s work to hold negligent landlords accountable through the launch of a new Housing Court Fast Track for some of the most urgent housing cases.

Since early in her tenure, Commissioner Levy has heard the same concern from legal advocates again and again that even in the most severe cases, tenants can spend months or years waiting for relief. For families displaced by vacate orders, residents living without essential services, or tenants trapped in buildings without working elevators, those delays can have enormous consequences.

The new fast track changes that. Eligible cases will now be assigned a judge the same day they are filed, with proceedings moving on an expedited timeline.

Commissioner Levy MCed the announcement alongside Mayor Mamdani, court leadership, tenant advocates, and City partners — bringing together many of the people who helped turn this idea into action.

As she put it: “By delivering justice faster, we will better protect tenants and more effectively pursue cases against willfully negligent landlords.”

A critical step forward in our commitment to Fix the City.



📸🎨: Ayan Rahman, HPD Digital Specialist

08/26/2026

Last night, HPD Commissioner Dina Levy joined NY1 to talk about the new Housing Court Fast Track and what it means for tenants facing some of the city’s most urgent housing conditions.

▶️ Here are a few highlights from the conversation.

🔗 Want the full conversation? Watch Commissioner Levy’s complete NY1 interview to hear more about how the Housing Court Fast Track will help move urgent cases faster and protect tenants while holding negligent landlords accountable here: https://youtu.be/x5zhFBJWWvQ?is=D_J807x0IdwwtLrI

08/25/2026

When your home is unsafe, you shouldn’t have to wait months — or years — for relief. 🏠

We are launching a new Housing Court Fast Track to move some of the most urgent cases through Housing Court faster and help tenants get the relief they need without unnecessary delay.

The new fast track will prioritize cases involving major vacate orders, immediately hazardous building-wide conditions, complete elevator outages, and certain Article 7A proceedings involving severely neglected buildings.

For eligible cases, a judge will now be assigned the same day the case is filed, and parties will appear within five days of being served.

This is one more way we’re working to , which means protecting tenants, holding negligent landlords accountable, and making sure our housing enforcement system responds with urgency when New Yorkers’ homes are at stake.

Swipe to learn how the new Housing Court Fast Track works. ➡️

08/21/2026