Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Recorded live at HANAC Harmony JVL Older Adult Center in Astoria, this installment of In Conversation: The Affordability Series examines New York City’s small two and three family homes, where an owner may live in one unit and rent out another. The conversation explores rising costs, limited tenant protections, basement apartment legalization, home flipping and what it would take to keep more New Yorkers in their homes.
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Photo: Carla Wills/WNYC
Guests:
Andrea Jerves, Director of Social Service Programs, Grants Administration and Compliance at HANAC
Doreen Mohammed, member of the Astoria Tenants Union
James Carr, member of the Astoria Tenants Union
Oudit Beharry, homeowner
Scott Kohanowski, General Counsel at the Center for NYC Neighborhoods
Annetta Seecharran, Executive Director of Chhaya Community Development Corporation
Troy Kingston, content creator known as Scourge Bliss
Brad Greenburg, Executive Director of the NYU Furman Center
Sylvia Morse, Director of Research and Policy at the Pratt Center for Community Development
State Senator Julia Salazar
Recorded live at HANAC Harmony JVL Older Adult Center in Astoria, this installment of In Conversation: The Affordability Series examines New York City’s small two and three family homes, where an owner may live in one unit and rent out another. The conversation explores rising costs, limited tenant protections, basement apartment legalization, home flipping and what it would take to keep more New Yorkers in their homes.
-Got any questions, comments or story ideas? Send us a message at NYCNow@WNYC.org
Photo: Carla Wills/WNYC
Guests:
Andrea Jerves, Director of Social Service Programs, Grants Administration and Compliance at HANAC
Doreen Mohammed, member of the Astoria Tenants Union
James Carr, member of the Astoria Tenants Union
Oudit Beharry, homeowner
Scott Kohanowski, General Counsel at the Center for NYC Neighborhoods
Annetta Seecharran, Executive Director of Chhaya Community Development Corporation
Troy Kingston, content creator known as Scourge Bliss
Brad Greenburg, Executive Director of the NYU Furman Center
Sylvia Morse, Director of Research and Policy at the Pratt Center for Community Development
State Senator Julia Salazar
