Help Support the Coalition
For the 2017/18 budget year, NPCNYS has asked the legislature to increase funding to the coalition to $250,000 from $150,000. With these funds, we intend to enhance our ability to evaluate the network and provide targeted technical assistance to you, our members. We also have plans to introduce new programming, including a new executive director mentoring and Americorps VISTA. The bottom line is that increased funding for us equals increased capacity for you.
Please sign on to show your support for a stronger coalition.
The letter of support will be delivered to the legislature on our Lobby Day, which is March 13, 2017.
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Text of Letter of Support
Dear Chairwoman Little and Chairman Cymbrowitz:
We, the members of the Neighborhood Preservation Coalition of New York State, Inc. respectfully request that you include an appropriation of $250,000, a $100,000 increase for the Coalition.
Affordable housing preservation and development are critical issues in our state. In these challenging economic times, it is especially important to ensure that low-and moderate-income families and individuals have access to safe, stable, and affordable housing. As NPCs, we work to make this happen in our local communities, and we rely on the technical assistance provided by the Coalition to help us prepare and submit applications to HCR, as well as help connect us to resources that expands our capacity to deliver services.
NPCs are vehicles to address unmet housing needs in urban and suburban areas throughout our state. Our organizations contribute to economic development efforts, improve health and education outcomes, and help lift people out of poverty. We need a strong Coalition to help us address the changing needs of our communities. Whether or not all of New York State’s communities will provide roads to economic prosperity for their residents depends in large part on investing in the programs the Coalition advocates for. Therefore we, the undersigned, respectfully request that the Legislature appropriate an increase for the Coalition so that it can expand its capacity and help NPCs more effectively deliver their services.
Sincerely,
| 116th Street Block Association, Inc. | Hellgate Management Corp. | North Yonkers Preservation & Dev. Corp. |
| 163rd Street Improvement Council, Inc. | Hispanic Brotherhood, Inc. | Northfield Community LDC of Staten Island, Inc. |
| Albany Housing Coalition Inc | Homsite Fund, Inc. | Ocean Parkway CDC |
| Allen Neighborhood Preservation and Development Corporation | Hope Community, Inc. | Old First Ward Community Association, Inc. |
| Bellport Hagerman East Patchogue Alliance, Inc | Housing Conservation Coordinators, Inc. | Regional Economic Community Action Program, Inc. |
| Belmont Arthur Local Development Corporation | Housing Help Inc. | Rockland County Development Council, Inc. |
| Better Neighborhoods, Inc. | Housing Visions | South East Area Coalition |
| Black Rock-Riverside NHS | Hudson River Housing, Inc. | South Wedge Planning Committee |
| Brighton Neighborhood Assoc. Inc | Human Development Services of Westchester | Spanish Action League |
| Broadway Fillmore NHS | Isla Housing & Development | St. Nick’s Alliance |
| Bronx Shephers Restoration Corporation | La Fuerza Unida, Inc. | Strycker’s Bay Neighborhood Council, Inc. |
| Carroll Gardens Association, Inc. | LDC of Crown Heights, Inc. | Syracuse Model Neighborhood Corp. |
| Central Islip Civic Council | Los Sures | Syracuse United Neighbors |
| CHJCC | Lower East Side Coalition of Housing Development, inc. | TAP, Inc. |
| CLOTH | Margert Community Corporation | The West Side Commons |
| Coalition of N.E.Association, Inc. | Marketview Heights Association | UNHS Neighborworks Homeownership Center |
| CODE, Inc. | MBD Community Housing Corp. | United Tenants of Albany |
| Community Land Trust of Schenectady, Inc | Midwood Dev. Corp. | Univ. Dist CDA |
| Community Organization of Southern Brooklyn | Morrisania Revitalization Corporation, Inc. | Washington Heights Inwood Preservation & Restoration Corp. |
| Cooper Square Committee | Mount Vernon United Tenants, Inc. | West Bronx Housing and Neighborhood Resource Center |
| Cypress Hills Local Development Corp. | NCS Community Development Corporation | West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing, Inc. |
| East New York Urban Youth Corp | Near Westside Neighborhood Assoc., Inc. | West Side NHS |
| Erasmus Neighborhood Federation | NEHDA, Inc. | Wilson Major Morris Community Center Inc |
| Fifth Avenue Committee | Neighborhood Assoc. for Inter-Cultural Affairs | Wyandanch Community Development Corporation |
| Flatbush Development Corporation | Neighborhood Housing Services of NYC | |
| Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation | Neighborhood Housing Services of Brooklyn CDC, Inc. | |
| Greater Ridgewood Restoration Corporation | Neighborhood Housing Services of Jamaica, Inc. | |
| Group 14621 Community Association, Inc. | Neighborhood Housing Services of Queens CDC, Inc | |
| HANAC, Inc. | NeighborWorks Rochester | |
| Heart of the City Neighborhoods, Inc. | North East Area Development/ Group 14621 |