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Agency Testimony

Adler explains co-op equity building and resale schedule

New York City Council · Sep 8, 2026 · starts 0:14:53 · 1 min 55 sec

Adler describes the resale schedule that balances wealth-building for low-income residents with long-term affordability, showing how resale profit increases over time while remaining within AMI ranges. She then reviews the development timeline, noting the project is near the end of pre-development with OMB processing underway.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

Next slide, please.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

So as homeowners, how do these co-op shareholders build equity in their homes?

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

What we do to both ensure building equity for low-income residents, but also maintaining this goal of providing long-term affordable housing stock, is that we have a resale schedule.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

After a certain number of years, the amount of money that you're able to sell these units for increases, but it still remains, even at maximum, within a certain AMI range for resale profit.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

You can see that in the table above.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

The goal of this is to balance, like I said, the wealth building and the permanent affordability, and generally has been a significant success in buildings that have converted and maintaining.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

Residents having this trade-off.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

Next slide, please.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

So where are we in the development timeline?

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

We are currently towards the end of the pre-development process.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

Sponsor designation happened a couple Augusts ago through both qualifying for an RFQ and tenants voting on their preferred developer.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

It resulted in Novus being the designated sponsor for this project.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

We have since gone through the pre-development of initial budgeting, financing.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

We have a scope of work.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

We're currently signing off on license agreements.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

We are going through the OMB process with financing.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

This is one of the last main stages of this.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

After this, we secure through OMB, and then tenants are relocated before we begin major gut and rehab.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

That will bring us to the development stage, where, of course, it's deed transfer construction loan.

Member of the Public - Emily Adler

And towards the end of that process, we start doing legal transactions with the city and bringing tenants who have succeeded in their programs back to the building.