{"id":208271,"date":"2026-04-24T12:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208271\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:21:10","slug":"nonprofit-leader-discusses-hurdles-facing-housing-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208271\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit leader discusses hurdles facing housing projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Affordable housing projects in New York City often face significant hurdles before construction can begin, including resistance at community meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns from residents can slow or even derail proposals, even when developments aim to address housing shortages.<\/p>\n<p>At a recent meeting on the proposed Sunnyside Yard project in Queens, residents raised questions about how units would be allocated, including housing for seniors, low-income residents and people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Stacy Bliagos, executive director of HANAC, a nonprofit that builds affordable housing and provides social services, joined \u201cMornings On 1\u201d to discuss the challenges of advancing these projects.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Affordable housing projects in New York City often face significant hurdles before construction can begin, including resistance at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[203,2274,2275,9,24,11,10,12,380,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-208271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-education","9":"tag-app-mornings-on-1","10":"tag-mornings-on-1","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","17":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208271","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=208271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}