Abbreviation | UHAB |
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Formation | 1974 |
Type | Non-profit organization |
Purpose | Tenant advocacy and housing group |
Headquarters | New York, New York |
Region served | Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bronx, United States |
Membership | 1,300 HDFCs |
President | Andrew Reicher (1981[1] - 2023[2]) Margy Brown (2023 - Present)[2] |
Website | www.uhab.org |
Squatting in the United States |
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Housing and justice |
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The Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB), formed in 1974, is a city-wide non-profit housing and tenant advocacy group in New York City.[3][4]: 253, 258, 261–264 [5]
UHAB was originally sponsored by the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine.[6] In the late 1970s, they began to contract with the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to provide classes for tenants for the city's Tenant Interim Lease (TIL) program and Community Management Program (CMP), which allowed the city to turn ownership of buildings to tenants.[7] UHAB had originally proposed the TIL program, which the HPD adopted in 1978.[8]
An analysis in 2015 showed approximately 1,300 existing Housing Development Fund Corporations (HDFC) (a form of limited equity cooperative in NYC), the majority of which had been created in the 1970's and 80's and clustered in low-income areas. They had primarily been created through the CMP, the TIL program, and Third Party Transfer program. UHAB was the main organization helping tenants transition into ownership and occasionally became interim landlords.[9]
In 2002, UHAB purchased 11 squatted buildings from the city for 1 dollar each, helping the homesteaders form HDFCs.[4] Beginning in 2005, as predatory equity became more prevalent in NYC, UHAB worked with other organizations to collect on predatory equity and produce guides to help tenants recognize and respond to it.[10]
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