Thomas O'Neil-White | February 13, 2024 The City of Buffalo could face legal action if it does not comply with a law it enacted four years ago. The Proactive Rental Inspections Law was passed by the Common Council and put in place, in part, to reduce childhood lead poisoning due to lead-based paint …
Deidre Williams | February 13, 2024A group of 39 community organizations appealed to the City of Buffalo to inspect far more rental properties for toxic lead paint, as required by its own Proactive Rental Inspections local law. Since at least the early 1990s, Buffalo has ranked among the …
Community advocates, health professionals and concerned citizens gathered today at Niagara Square to call on the Brown Administration to comply with the city’s Proactive Rental Inspections (PRI) Law enacted by the Buffalo Common Council in November 2020. You can read the full text of the …
I'Jaz Jaciel | February 13, 2024 Nearly 40 local community organizations are questioning whether City Hall is fully complying with a more than 3-year-old program that was designed, in part, to help combat lead poisoning in city housing. They’re giving the city a month to prove that …
On the morning of Friday, January 12th, 2024, Partnership for the Public Good (PPG) and community advocates convened to unveil the 2024 PPG Community Agenda at Frank E. Merriweather Library. The program began by acknowledging the historical legacy of the ancestral community who sought to make a …
On January 10, 2024, the Erie County Legislature held a public hearing on the proposed local law to authorize the creation and maintenance of affordable housing as an Erie County purpose. PPG Community Researcher, Caitlin Love Crowell, shared the following remarks during the hearing.
On July 13, 2023, the Erie County Legislature held a public hearing on the proposed Occupancy Tax Modernization Act. PPG staff were not able to attend this hearing, but Director of Community Research, Sarah Wooton, submitted the following comments to the Erie County legislature.
Noah Berg won the Cornell University College of Human Ecology’s Community-Engaged Reflection Award for his work as a 2022 High Road Fellow with the Western New York Law Center (WNYLC).
Partnership for the Public Good and its partner organizations gathered at Buffalo City Hall to call for three priorities to be included in the City of Buffalo 2023-2024 budget currently being negotiated. Video of the press conference is available here.
News Editorial Board | March 25, 2023 Enough with the studies and the reports. It’s time for action. Buffalo has an affordable housing crisis that’s been building since well before the pandemic and is now at near-catastrophic proportions. Between late 2019 and late 2022, the median …
Elected officials, researchers, and community members gathered in Buffalo today to call on New York State to adopt three policies that would fight inflation costs and help working families struggling with rising costs.
Caitlin Dewey | February 7, 2023 What do you get when you put five advocates, two landlords, two lawyers and a housing official in a room together? A solution to the affordable housing crisis, hopes the Buffalo Common Council. On Tuesday, the council appointed 10 representatives to a new Affordable …