Equitable Community Development
AAFE builds affordable housing and creates stronger communities.
AAFE has earned a nationwide reputation in the past four decades for innovating solutions to the affordable housing crisis. The organization’s first project, Equality House in Manhattan’s Chinatown, became the first development in New York City to use the Federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. Over the years, we have created 800 units of affordable housing in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.
Through the Lower Manhattan Affordable Housing Preservation Program, AAFE has acquired and rehabilitated dilapidated buildings, helping to stem the tide of gentrification and to stabilize communities.
In Flushing, Queens AAFE is partnering with Monadnock Development and HANAC to build One Flushing, a 231-unit affordable housing project with space for small retailers and community facilities.
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Recent Stories
One Flushing Progress Report: New Affordable Housing, Retail, Community Spaces In-the-Works
One Flushing, our new inter-generational housing and retail project, has reached its full height on the way to completion in early 2019. AAFE is developing the exciting new community at 133-45 41st Avenue in Queens along with HANAC and Monadnock...
AAFE Preserves Affordable Apartments in Chinatown – Thanks to Help From HPD and Enterprise
(Left) 81 Madison St. (Upper right) AAFE, HPD and Enterprise Community Partners celebrate the building's renovation. Photo courtesy of HPD. (Lower right) 81 Madison St. tenant Mr. Bai in his newly renovated apartment. Photo courtesy of HPD. Asian Americans...
AAFE Makes List of Best Landlords in Manhattan
Asian Americans for Equality was included in a recent survey of the "12 Best Landlords in Manhattan." The report by the Brick Underground website used data from the past four years collected by Rentlogic, which grades buildings, "based on the...
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