Fewer than 45,000 units still exist in fewer than 75 Mitchell-Lama buildings.Īccording to New York State housing officials, the diminished supply of Mitchell-Lama housing is the result of owners or building boards opting to pay off mortgages and convert the buildings to market rate rentals or sales. Sixty years after Mitchell-Lama arose, the number of apartment complexes, co-ops and other Mitchell-Lama program buildings has dropped significantly. But the units are now transitioning to market-rate apartments, like this 3-bedroom, 1-bathroom unit at 310 Greenwich Street, which was listed for rent at market rates now of over $6,395 per month. With 1,260 apartments and townhouses located in three towers at 310 Greenwich Street, 40 Harrison Street and 80 North Moore Street, the complex was built in 1972 under the Mitchell-Lama rent-protection program. One example is the Independence Plaza North complex in Tribeca. Some prominent Mitchell-Lama complexes still exist, despite market forces that have led to privatization of some of the original complexes. With about 100,000 units in its heyday, Mitchell-Lama buildings and complexes were located in formerly blighted areas of Manhattan, including the Upper West Side, Chelsea, Lower East Side and in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, too. The program is administered by the New York City Housing and Preservation Department and has offered income-restricted rentals and “limited equity” co-ops. Named after the two lawmakers who originated the legislation creating the program (New York State Senator MacNeil Mitchell and Assemblyman Alfred Lama), Mitchell-Lama buildings numbered 269 at the program’s peak in the 1960s and ‘70s. Among the subsidized housing programs in New York City, Mitchell-Lama has provided affordable housing to tens of thousands of New Yorkers since its inception in 1955.
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