Department of Housing Preservation and Development

Last year was one of the busiest years for residential development in New York’s recent history, with permits issued for 31,918 privately owned housing units, according to data from the U.S. Census. The city’s departments of Housing Preservation and Development and of Buildings announced the numbers today, saying 2007 saw the second highest number of housing-unit permits issued since 1965, when modern permit records began.

According to HPD, 2006 saw permits issued for 30,927 units, while 31,599 permits were issued in 2005.  read more »

The city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development has scored a victory against Bronx landlord Hamid Khan, responsible for more than 2,000 housing violations at one property, as a judge sentenced him late last month to nine days in jail and ordered him to pay $156,000 in penalties, according to HPD. The city agency announced the decision today after squaring away details related to his jail time.

Mr. Khan owns the 94-unit 1055 Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard in the Bronx, which currently has 2,268 Housing Maintenance Code violations. Mr. Khan is the first landlord since 2006 to go to jail, when a Brooklyn landlord was placed in civil contempt for violations at his properties.  read more »

As the economic climate grows gloomier, the Bloomberg administration is predicting a drop in the amount of affordable housing to be produced in the coming years, according to figures in the latest Mayor’s Management Report, released yesterday. The lowered estimates, however, do not yet jeopardize the mayor’s ambitious plan to create 92,000 new affordable units by 2013, the city says.  read more »