On August 16th, elected officials, funders, and other partners joined Comunilife and NYC Health + Hospitals to break ground on a new supportive/affordable housing building on the campus of Woodhull Hospital.  Of the residence’s 89 studio units, fifty-four will be set aside as supportive housing for patients of NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull who have behavioral health issues and a history of homelessness. Read more.

The competitive round of funding that includes 9% Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) has been released. This is a major source of funds to develop supportive housing to meet New York State’s commitment to build 6,000 units of supportive housing over five years. That commitment is demonstrated by an increase in the supportive housing set aside for LIHTC, from $4 million to $5 million out of an estimated total of $28 million. Read more.

Emily Lehman is now the Assistant Commisioner of the Supportive Housing Loan Program (SHLP) at the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). Prior to this appointment, Ms. Lehman served as HPD's Director of Planning and Development, Division of Special Needs Housing, as well as served as the Deputy Director of SHLP.

Carrie Zwiebel Bloss has been named Executive Director of Project Hospitality, sharing executive leadership with the organization’s Reverend Dr. Terry Troia , who served as Executive Director for 30 years, and who now holds the position of President and CEO. Ms. Bloss comes to Project Hospitality from Breaking Ground, where she served as Vice President, and oversaw quality assurance of all agency programs, leasing and compliance of 3,000+ units of affordable housing, and management of government contracts. Prior to her work with Breaking Ground, Ms. Bloss was Senior Policy Advisor for the NYC Department of Homeless Services.

Lorraine Y. Collins is Enterprise’s new Director of Public Policy and External Affairs in New York City. Prior to joining Enterprise, Ms. Collins spent over a decade at NYS Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) where she launched HCR's Fair and Equitable Housing Office, as well as served as a Regional Director and Poli cy Advisor.

TimesUnion.com published an article by Matthew Hamilton about Speaker Carl Heastie touring Capital District YMCA's supportive housing residence in Schenectady, 845 Commons , “ On Capital Region tour, Assembly Speaker sees one New York ."