Welcome to NYC Housing Recovery

The NYC Mayor's Office of Housing Recovery Operations and the Build It Back Program are dedicated to helping New Yorkers living in communities affected by Hurricane Sandy. Through the repair, rebuilding, and elevation of homes, the Build It Back program is working to enhance resiliency in our waterfront neighborhoods.

Through Build It Back, the City has prioritized homeowners and waterfront communities – ensuring that these New Yorkers have the resources necessary to recover and make their homes and communities more resilient.  Funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant disaster recovery funds (CDBG-DR), Build It Back aids homeowners after all other forms of disaster assistance have been exhausted.

Build It Back is helping 8,300 homeowners and landlords of 1-4 unit homes, housing a total of 12,500 families. In the hardest hit waterfront communities, Build It Back is rebuilding and elevating almost 1,375 homes to today’s stringent regulations for flood compliance. Another 6,600 homeowners with moderate Sandy damage are being assisted with repair and reimbursement - helping neighborhoods that were not in the floodplain when Sandy hit and homeowners who did not have flood insurance. Through Build It Back’s Multi-family Program, more than 19,600 households in 143 developments have received assistance through repairs, resiliency upgrades, and reimbursement services, as well as 242 low-income households through rental assistance.

The City is nearing completion of its Hurricane Sandy housing recovery efforts. Through August 2018, the Build It Back program has served 99.8% percent of approximately 8,300 homeowners (totaling 12,500 households) through either a reimbursement check, construction start, or acquisition. The vast majority of these homeowners - 95 percent - have received their full benefit, including construction, reimbursement, or acquisition of their home.  Over 4,800 projects have been completed across Sandy-impacted areas in Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island, including 98 percent of City-managed construction projects, and 93 percent of all construction projects, which also includes homeowner-managed construction.

Announcements

DEMOLITION OF 1- TO 4- FAMILY HOMES SUBSTANTIALLY DAMAGED BY
HURRICANE SANDY IN QUEENS, BROOKLYN, AND STATEN ISLAND

This Request for Qualifications (“RFQ”) is being issued by Project Rebuild, Inc. (“PRI”) to establish a Pre-Qualified List (“PQL”) of demolition contractors that demonstrate the requisite experience to furnish all labor, materials, and equipment to perform demolitions of 1- to 4- family homes that were substantially damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. The Program is being administered by PRI with oversight from the Mayor’s Office of Housing Recovery Operations (“HRO”) and the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (“HPD”).

To learn more download the Request for Qualifications Announcements.

Issue Date: September 17, 2018
Submission Due Date: October 8, 2018

If you have any questions, please send them to: info@neighborhoodrestore.org