Public beta: Affordable Forever is live for early use and feedback. Building dates and purchase-right screens are preservation signals, not automatic legal determinations; check the source and protection details on each page.
Tenant Action Center · first building-specific prototype

63 Tiffany Place, Brooklyn, NY

This page demonstrates the boundary we chose: Affordable Forever does the public building homework, identifies what is still missing, and gives the tenant a short path forward. It does not ask the tenant to upload income, rent, household information, lease history or other private facts.

Prototype — not a legal determination

What we know — and what we do not

The action plan starts from the same evidence as the Preservation Brief. Unknowns stay unknown; they become tasks rather than guesses.

Public building facts already assembled

  • HPD's May 1, 2026 federal environmental notice describes rehabilitation of a 70-unit building through 63 Tiffany Place Housing Development Fund Corporation.
  • That notice describes 25 proposed HPD Project-Based Voucher units.
  • The notice describes project-level affordability targeting households at 50% AMI or below, but the final controlling regulatory agreement and restricted-unit schedule have not been verified in Affordable Forever's canonical record.
  • The property has an older LIHTC affordability history that should remain visible alongside the newer preservation transaction.

Still unresolved

  • Whether the preservation acquisition/closing is complete.
  • The executed/recorded preservation regulatory agreement and its affordability term.
  • The final tax-exemption structure.
  • Final PBV HAP terms and assisted-unit list.
  • The legal status of any particular apartment or tenant.

Your next three steps

The point is not to hand someone 59 links. The router uses the building context and the type of help needed to choose a short sequence from source-grounded public facts, while the full directory remains available if the first option does not work.

1

Get the governing preservation documents

Why this matters: The most important unresolved building-level question is what final agreement actually controls the new affordability period and preservation transaction.

What to do: Start with public recorded property records. If the controlling HPD document is not available there, use a focused HPD records request. Use HCR's records route only for records controlled by HCR/DHCR.

ACRIS Property RecordsNYC Department of Finance - Office of the City Register · Public property-record system for searching and viewing recorded deeds, mortgages and other real-property documents for Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan and Queens from 1966 to the present.Open current service →
HPD FOIL / NYC OpenRecordsNYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development · Formal records-request pathway for existing HPD records when the needed document is not already available through public HPD/City sources. HPD directs electronic FOIL requests through NYC OpenRecords.Open current service →
HCR FOIL / Records RequestsNew York State Homes and Community Renewal · State records-access pathway for HCR/DHCR and affiliated housing-agency records, with a separate Office of Rent Administration route for rent-related records.Open current service →

Privacy: No household financial information is needed to search public property records. A formal records request may require requester contact information, but should not ask for unrelated tenant details.

2

Get your apartment rent history if you want apartment-specific advice

Why this matters: Building-level LIHTC, PBV and preservation records cannot determine the rent-regulation history of one apartment.

What to do: Use an existing rent-history request pathway rather than giving Affordable Forever your rent, income or lease history. Keep the rent history with your own leases and notices for the human helping you.

Rent History RequestJustFix · Free tool that helps NYC tenants request and receive their apartment rent history by mail; a text-bot option is also available.Open current service →
Office of Rent AdministrationNew York State Homes and Community Renewal · State rent-regulation office for rent-stabilized and rent-controlled housing, including rent-history inquiries, rent-stabilization questions and borough rent offices.Open current service →

Privacy: Affordable Forever does not need to receive or store the resulting rent history.

3

Talk to a matching human resource

Why this matters: The building-level preservation facts are public, but apartment-specific rights and organizing or legal strategy may require tenant records and a conversation with a qualified human resource.

Start here — factual match from the current registry
Housing and Tenant OrganizingCarroll Gardens Association · Southwest Brooklyn grassroots organization that preserves affordable housing, organizes tenant associations, and sponsors the Southwest Brooklyn Tenant Union.Open current intake →
Another matching option
Southwest Brooklyn Tenant UnionSouthwest Brooklyn Tenant Union · Tenant-led Southwest Brooklyn organization focused on anti-displacement, tenant education, community organizing, direct action, political education and tenant-association support.Open this option →
Citywide option
Preserving Affordable HousingBuild Up Justice NYC · Formerly Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A. Current citywide legal-services organization with a deep preserving-affordable-housing practice combining tenant legal representation, community outreach and tenant organizing.Open citywide option →
Routing caution: CGA is a community organization, not a substitute for legal representation when a tenant needs an attorney.
Explore the full Tenant Action CenterFind another building

What this prototype refuses to do

  • Do not say that all 70 units have the same legal protection.
  • Do not say that any particular tenant receives one of the 25 proposed PBVs.
  • Do not assert Article XI or 420-c until a primary source verifies the final tax structure.
  • Do not equate the PBV HAP term, LIHTC term, tax-exemption term and regulatory-agreement term.
  • If a local organizing resource's published catchment does not explicitly name this neighborhood, show that uncertainty rather than inventing coverage.
  • Do not hard-code a private practitioner preference into the public routing result; order public options only from source-grounded factual fit.

Resource registry last verified: 2026-08-15. This prototype demonstrates factual routing architecture. It does not establish that any provider will accept a matter, that one provider is categorically better than another, that a particular apartment is rent stabilized, or that any tenant receives a particular subsidy.