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 to address the gap of 11,703 new units of housing […]

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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 in every community with remarkable consistency have been known […]

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 different and because of the personalities and interests of the […]

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Written by Welcome Home Westchester Steering Committee members: Tim Foley and Michael N. Romita |  Featured on Lohud. In her executive budget, Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed streamlined, as-of-right zoning legislation for both accessory dwelling units and transit-oriented development.  The bills were criticized by many quarters as an assault on local control and they were pulled.  Withdrawal […]

As with last week’s public hearing for the New York State Assembly Delegation, today’s Senate budget hearing showed that support is strong for modest tools that could make a big difference in addressing our housing shortage. Nearly a dozen people cited providing more housing as a top concern, with many of them explicitly supporting the Governor’s […]

The BRI and Welcome Home Westchester are committed to helping solve the housing crisis in Westchester. Along with community leaders from Westchester County Association (WCA), Nonprofit Westchester (NPW), the Construction Industry Council of Westchester and Hudson Valley (CIC), and the Hudson Gateway Association of REALTORS, Inc. (HGAR), we urge our government leaders to find solutions […]

Anyone who was expecting to hear a unified voice of Not in My Backyard rejection of the Governor’s proposals around housing, including accessory dwelling units and transit-oriented development, would have been surprised at today’s Westchester Assembly Delegation budget hearing.  At least a dozen speakers spoke in support of more housing choices of all shapes and sizes […]