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City Reverses Dismissal of NR Municipal Housing Authority Commissioners by Former City Manager Strome ‘Fantastic Four’ Now Eligible for Reinstatement The City of New Rochelle has reached a settlement agreement with the four New...
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New RoAR Hosts a Community Discussion on the IDA
The full recording of New RoAR’s IDA learning session can be viewed here. While the New Rochelle Industrial Development Agency (IDA) has given tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks to developers, little...
Applications for CDBG grants due on July 21
On June 19th at 3 pm the City of New Rochelle held its annual Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) information session at City Hall. CDBG is a program of the federal Department of Housing...
NR Municipal Housing Commissioners Sue City Over Dismissal
Four New Rochelle Municipal Housing Authority (NRMHA) Commissioners have sued the City to challenge their December 29, 2022, dismissals by former City Manager Chuck Strome just two days before his retirement. In the suit,...
Campaigning for Affordable Housing: The Devil in the Details
June is Democratic Primary month, and mailboxes are stuffed with glossy campaign postcards listing accomplishments and making promises, especially concerning affordable housing. “Housing affordability is not just my top campaign issue, it’s one of...
A Tale of Two Letters
How notice of non-compliance from HUD is treated by the City of New Rochelle In December 2022, then City Manager Chuck Strome received two letters from the federal government’s Department of Housing and Urban...
State of the City: Development for Whom?
Mayor’s address calls for “honest conversations” but buries issues affecting the financially distressed and marginalized. In his final State of the City Address on Thursday, March 9, Mayor Noam Bramson declared victory after a...
Community Blasts City Council and Administration for Dismissal of Housing Authority Board
Questions Raised Regarding Process, Motives and Role of Executive Director, National Counsel, and HUD The removal of four Commissioners of the New Rochelle Municipal Housing Authority (NRMHA) by the former City Manager brought an...
New Rochelle’s “Bermuda Triangle”
Echo and Huguenot: Where the rule of law goes to die In the words of longtime New Rochelle resident and activist Lisa Burton, “strange things happen at the corner of Echo and Huguenot.” That’s...
City Names New Chief Financial Officer for Housing Authority
The Board of Commissioners of the New Rochelle Municipal Housing Authority (NRMHA) held its monthly meeting on Monday, February 13, 2023, at 5:30 pm, both in person at 50 Sickles Avenue and virtually on...