The Long Island Progressive Coalition (LIPC) is a grassroots community-based organization founded in 1979, dedicated to promoting sustainable development, revitalizing local communities, enhancing human dignity, creating effective democracy, and achieving economic, social & racial justice. LIPC is the Citizen Action of New York (CANY) affiliate on Long Island.
LIPC is the Citizen Action of New York (CANY) affiliate on Long Island.
By Village Tattler, on September 21st, 2010
(N/Y)IMBYs are easy to tell apart by their signs
Town Hall was filled beyond capacity Tuesday night well before public hearings began at 6pm. A surly mob outside the door clamored for security to allow them into the meeting. Studio 54 in the glory days never had so much intensity [...]
Discouraged by the lack of affordable housing, young people are moving elsewhere
By Alex Costello
Part one in a series, “Plugging the brain drain.”
For the past decade, Long Island has been losing college graduates and young professionals. The high cost of living and lack of affordable housing has forced them to leave the area in droves.
The [...]
YIMBY, LIPC gathered to endorse economic development through AvalonBay in Huntington Station on Tuesday.
By Matthew Hogan
A group of close 30 people gathered outside Town Hall on Tuesday prior to the Town Board’s Sept. 7 meeting to announce their endorsement of the Avalon Huntington Station project.
Members of The Long Island Progressive Coalition (LIPC) and The Coalition [...]
By Rosey Mulderrig, on September 7th, 2010
Tuesday’s Town Board meeting started out with a bang. This was the last meeting before September 21st when Board will vote on whether to downzone 29 acres in Huntington Station for Transit Oriented Development (TOD). If TOD zoning is approved, AvalonBay will have cleared all zoning hurdles and move [...]
By Village Tattler, on July 7th, 2010
Huntingtonians listen to Station Resident Chris O’Donnell explain why he’s opposed to Avalon Bay
Tuesday night’s Town Hall meeting was dominated by a spirited discussion of whether downzoning Huntington Station and allowing Avalon Bay’s proposed 490-unit development is good for the Town and Huntington Station. The Town Hall auditorium was [...]
By Long Island Press on Jul 1st, 2010
Supporters of a planned affordable housing project rallied outside Huntington Town Hall as a part of the “Yes In My Backyard,” or YIMBY campaign, on Monday evening.
Reverend Paul Ratzlaff of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (center) of Huntington spoke in support of the Avalon Bay Project
The approximately two dozen [...]
Originally published: June 28, 2010 8:22 PM
Updated: June 28, 2010 9:08 PM
By ZEKE MILLER zeke.miller@newsday.com
More than two dozen people rallied late Monday afternoon to show their support for the proposed 490-unit AvalonBay Transit Oriented District in Huntington Station, a development designed to offer housing near mass transit to people of varying ages and incomes.
The demonstration, [...]
Advocates Rally for Affordable Housing in Huntington
Group braves the cold to show support for development
More than a dozen supporters, organized by the Massapequa-based Long Island Progressive Coalition (LIPC), chanted “Yes In My Backyard” in support of the Avalon Bay development planned for Huntington Station amid a pro-affordable housing rally at Huntington Town Hall on Saturday.
A [...]
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Saying ‘Yes’ To Affordable Housing On Long Island
– By Deborah Wetzel
Everyone’s heard of NIMBY (“Not in My Backyard”), but you’ll soon be hearing more about YIMBY- “Yes in My Backyard.”
It’s a campaign that’s been started by the Long Island Progressive Coalition to create more affordable housing. In their rollout meeting in December, representatives of groups [...]
