{"id":135310,"date":"2026-02-16T18:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135310\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:04:07","slug":"bronx-first-launches-with-metro-industrial-areas-foundation-identifies-plan-for-25000-affordable-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135310\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx First launches with Metro Industrial Areas Foundation, identifies plan for 25,000 affordable homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,800 Bronx residents, faith leaders and nonprofit organizers packed the Rose Hill Gymnasium at Fordham University on Feb. 5 to launch a new borough wide coalition aimed at building political power and tackling long-standing inequities.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition, Bronx First, is the newest affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), one of the nation\u2019s oldest networks of interfaith and community-based organizations. It joins the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation \u2014 the group\u2019s regional arm \u2014 which includes coalitions in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the South Bronx. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/bronx-first-launch-metro-industrial-areas-foundation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Bronx Times &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tBronx First launches with Metro Industrial Areas Foundation, identifies plan for 25,000 affordable homes &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; More than 1,800 Bronx residents, faith leaders and nonprofit organizers packed the Rose Hill Gymnasium at Fordham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,57151,57490,8179,39514,57491,57492,57493,57494,9,24,63,57495,129,131,130,44572,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-135310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-bronx-first","10":"tag-bronx-islamic-cultural-center","11":"tag-bronxworks","12":"tag-eileen-torres","13":"tag-haji-dukaray","14":"tag-industrial-areas-foundation","15":"tag-metro-iaf","16":"tag-moshulu-montefiore-community-center","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-rita-santelia","21":"tag-the-bronx","22":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","23":"tag-the-bronx-news","24":"tag-twin-parks","25":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}