New York City Housing Projects Receiving Financial Assistance

Local Law 44 of 2012 mandates reporting on housing projects receiving city financial assistance. The dataset tracks project details like StartDate, ProjectedCompletionDate, BorrowerLegalEntityName, and unit counts. It is published by the City of New York's data portal and was last updated in November 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in TotalProjectUnits and Counted Rental Units by ProgramGroup over time.
• Associate BorrowerLegalEntityName and GeneralContractorName with project performance metrics like CommercialSquareFootage.
• Track project timelines by comparing StartDate and ProjectedCompletionDate for delayed developments.
• Filter projects by labor law compliance using IsDavisBacon and IsSection220NYSLaborLaw flags.
• Calculate the proportion of Counted Homeownership Units to All Counted Units for policy assessment.

Strengths

• Contains multiple key project attributes like unit counts, square footage, and contractor names.
• Includes temporal fields StartDate and ProjectedCompletionDate for longitudinal analysis.
• Part of a mandated legal reporting framework (Local Law 44), suggesting structured collection.

Limitations

• Sample size, total rows, and temporal coverage are unknown.
• Lacks direct demographic or detailed financial outcome columns.
• Potential for missing data in fields like CommercialSquareFootage or GeneralContractorName.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofnewyork.us (New York City Open Data).

Collection Method

Collected by the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) pursuant to Local Law 44 reporting requirements.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-11-18.

Geography

New York City, New York, USA.