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UHAB empowers low- to moderate-income residents to take control of their housing and enhance their communities by creating strong tenant associations and lasting affordable co-ops.

Thanks to dedicated building residents, tireless UHAB staff, and the generous support of funders and individual donors, in fiscal year 2014 UHAB…

Trained tenant association members from 30 buildings threatened by predatory real estate investors on defending their rights as residents of rent-regulated apartments and preserving affordable housingConvened 80 residents of 15 Crown Heights buildings for a two-day congress on fighting slumlords bent on replacing low-income residents of rent-regulated buildings with market-rate tenantsCollaborated on the City Council bill introduced to compel negligent landlords to eliminate the underlying causes of health and safety hazards such as mold and collapsed ceilingsHeld Introduction to Limited-Equity Co-ops classes for 540 people wanting to purchase units in UHAB’s network, bringing the total number of workshop attendees to 4,051 since 2008Converted 36 rental apartments to affordable co-ops for low- to moderate-income householdsCompleted New York City’s first inclusionary zoning homeownership project, which combines affordable co-ops with market-rate rentals in one newly constructed buildingProvided technical assistance to members of co-ops and tenant associations during 3,600 site visits and phone consultations and 1,500 in-office visitsExpanded the UHAB Share Loan Program, for a total of 33 loans (representing $813,000) since 2011, to help more individuals become shareholders in affordable co-opsEnrolled more than 650 buildings (with 10,550 families) in UHAB’s Fire and Liability Insurance Plan (FLIP), with annual premiums totaling $4.6 millionSaved seven struggling affordable co-ops with $2.6 million in low-interest capital improvement loans for four buildings and $1.7 million in loans to cover overdue property, water, and sewer taxes for three

UHAB SUCCESS STORIES

As we build on our accomplishments, we at UHAB intend to continue inspiring and training residents to play active roles in shaping the present and determining the future of their affordable housing. Please join us!

OUR MISSION

Rachel Christmas DerrickDirector, Communication & Fundraising

212 479 3324 or derrick@uhab.org

Creating, fortifying, and sustaining affordable housing since 1973

1,600Buildings UHAB has guided from

distressed rental to affordable housing

cooperative

44Staff members

in UHAB’s Harlem and Wall

Street offices

UHABBY THE NUMBERS

11.4Years, on average,

that currentemployees have worked at UHAB

$3,200,000Total in loans that UHAB has

helped affordable co-ops obtain since 2002 to pay off overdue property, water, and

sewer taxes

30,000Apartments of low- to moderate-income tenants whom UHAB has helped become co-op homeowners

$1,700,000,000Total value of the Fire and Liability Insurance Plan that UHAB offers to

affordable co-ops

$39,400,000Total in capital improvement

loans secured for existing affordable co-ops with UHAB’s

assistance since 2001

$32,000 -$79,000

Household incomes of new residents who bought 50 two-bedroom

co-ops (for $28,000 to $147,000) in 16 UHAB-sponsored Harlem

buildings between 2011 and 2014

41Years since UHAB’s 1973 founding