Affordable Forever helps tenants, organizers, and public officials identify affordable housing at risk early enough to preserve it. We bring together records about affordability protections, subsidies, ownership, financing, building conditions, and preservation opportunities — then translate that complexity into clear information people can act on.
That is the question behind Affordable Forever. A building can have several overlapping protections, old programs that still matter, changing ownership or financing, physical problems, and different rights for different tenants. You should not have to become a housing researcher before you can start asking the right questions.
LIHTC is one piece, not the whole picture. Regulatory agreements, Section 8, rent regulation, J-51, Article XI, Mitchell-Lama, tax benefits, HCR/HPD/HDC programs, Good Cause, and other protections can all matter differently.
Explore programs & protections →Affordability milestones, ownership changes, refinancing, lender events, building deterioration, permits, evictions, and sales can all be reasons to investigate before a crisis becomes irreversible.
Search current LIHTC records →Research should lead somewhere: get the records, understand what is uncertain, contact the right legal or organizing help, talk to neighbors, and use preservation tools while there is still leverage.
What should I do? →Behind one address can sit city, state and federal databases, tax records, regulatory agreements, rent-regulation history, ownership records, mortgages, permits and enforcement data. Affordable Forever is building one preservation record that keeps those sources separate, shows what is known and unknown, and explains why each finding may matter.
Find public records, program history, protection signals and recent changes connected to the property.
Separate screening signals from verified facts, keep historical protections visible, and identify what needs deeper review.
Give tenants concrete next steps, records to obtain, questions to ask, and trusted places to go for deeper help.
The tenant search available today is built from LIHTC property records derived from the National Housing Preservation Database. It is not yet a universal residential-building search. If an address does not appear, that is not evidence that the building has no affordability, rent-regulation, tax-benefit, or other protections. Broader New York City residential-building coverage is under development.
The goal is a printable, source-backed building brief that starts a tenant far above zero: what we found, what may protect the home, what may put it at risk, what we could not determine, what records to get, what to do next, and who can help.
Search the LIHTC/NHPD property records currently available, understand the limits of the result, and use the source and protection pages to begin building the preservation story. Broader residential-building coverage, the deeper Preservation Brief, and additional protection feeds are in active development.
Search LIHTC properties →A simple answer, honest uncertainty, clear next steps and a printable preservation record.
Current LIHTC search →Use preservation windows, protection gaps, ownership/financing changes, conditions and geography to prioritize research and outreach.
Organizer Hub →District views can show preservation risks alongside new production so housing policy counts the affordable homes that leave the stock too.
Legislator tools →New production matters. Preservation matters too. Affordable Forever is building the evidence needed to identify existing affordable homes at risk early, understand the protections and opportunities around them, and help people act before those homes are lost.
Housing production tells us what we added. Preservation tells us what we refused to lose.
Affordable Forever is tenant-rooted, preservation-focused, and built around a simple promise: public housing information should be findable, understandable, and usable before the opportunity to protect a home disappears.