housing shortage

“Before, if you walked in Johnson City, you would just hear kids laughing and giggling. Now you don’t hear that. All you hear is construction.”

The land bank will use the money to save roughly a dozen properties on Broome County’s tax foreclosure list.

That way, the city could keep encampments away from crowded or dangerous areas, and concentrate them in places where there is better access to service workers and emergency responders.

Across the region, 483 people either stayed in shelters or on the street on a single night this year.

According to the proposal, the Ithaca Dedicated Encampment Site would house up to 50 residents experiencing homelessness.

Manufacturers in New York want to compete with companies overseas and localize production. They’re limited, however, by hiring challenges and a lack of workforce housing.

While the number of eviction cases heard in courts has increased, the number of people displaced has not reached the level housing services providers expected.

Communities across New York are strategizing ways to keep residents in quality housing. In Broome County, that effort has taken the form of a housing trust fund.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters Friday that she has not yet determined whether the state will extend the soon-to-expire eviction moratorium. Some housing advocates are disappointed the governor failed to address the moratorium in her State of the State agenda.

Advocates for "Good Cause" eviction in Ithaca say it would give more negotiating power to tenants who are in a vulnerable position.