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Affordable Housing Lottery is Now Open For AAFE’s East Village Homes
Rendering by Leroy Street Studio. A housing lottery kicked off this week (10/18/21) for East Village Homes, a 100% affordable project at 302 East 2nd St. in Manhattan, providing essential new rental housing in the heart of New York City. There are a total of 44...
AAFE Continues to Offer Help to Anyone Applying for Emergency Rental Assistance
AAFE's Community Services Department is offering multilingual one-on-one help to any community members applying for New York State's Emergency Rental Assistance Program. Please see details below in the English, Chinese and Spanish flyers. [pdf-embedder...
Applications Open For Affordable Apartments on the Lower East Side
Affordable apartment availabilities on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Please see information in English, Chinese and Spanish. The application deadline is November 14. [pdf-embedder...
FDNY and AAFE Team Up for Fire Training Exercises in the East Village
The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) was on the scene on two consecutive days this past summer at a tenement building located at 406 East 10th St. in Manhattan's East Village. But firefighters were not responding to an emergency. This was a training exercise at a...
AAFE Begins to Transform 3 East Village Buildings into Affordable Cooperatives
Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE), the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), project partners, elected officials and local residents celebrated the start of construction today for a three-building rehabilitation project that will...
President Biden Appoints AAFE’s Jennifer Sun to Serve on the Community Development Advisory Board
The White House announced September 15 that AAFE Co-Executive Director Jennifer Sun is among nine new members appointed by President Biden to serve on the Community Development Advisory Board. Members of the board provide advice to the director of the Community...
AAFE Testifies at New York State Redistricting Hearings
Through our membership in the APA VOICE Redistricting Task Force, AAFE is participating in public hearings intended to help decide the boundaries for state and federal legislative boundaries. The process is dependent on data from the 2020 Census. AAFE Co-Executive...
Grant From Enterprise Community Partners Bolsters AAFE’s Pandemic Resilient Housing Prototype
AAFE is one of 10 nonprofit organizations in New York State to receive recognition and crucial support through the Call for Ideas Program, a project of Enterprise Community Partners. Enterprise is providing $2.9 million in grants to help actualize innovative ideas for...
AAFE Hosts Two Upcoming Housing Fairs in the East Village
AAFE is co-hosting two housing resource fairs in the East Village with City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera and the Legal Aid Society. We'll tell you what you need to know to apply for affordable housing lotteries, provide free legal consulting and offer information to...
Next Steps at Forsyth Plaza Thanks to Neighborhoods Now Initiative
Next Steps at Forsyth Plaza Thanks to Neighborhoods Now InitiativeThere has always been a lack of public outdoor space in Chinatown. This fact has never been more glaring than during the past year, as pandemic-related social distancing created new demands on our city...
Asian Americans for Equality: Standing Up Against Hate
Asian Americans for Equality: Standing Up Against Hate As violent crimes against Asian Americans continue to rise and our community mobilizes to #StopAsianHate, there has never been a more important time to speak up against racism, xenophobia sexism and white...
AAFE’s Statement on Anti-Asian Racism and Hate Crimes
AAFE released the following statement February 11, 2021: AAFE calls on elected officials at all levels of government, and our partners in immigrant and communities of color, to condemn anti-Asian racism and hate crimes - and to invest in community-centered programs...
