5 Borough Housing Movement, Inc.
Lobbying client
5 Borough Housing Movement is a coalition of business, labor and civic groups, led by executive director John Sanchez with New York Building Congress president Carlo Scissura and Association for a Better New York CEO Melva Miller on its board, that pushes for policy changes to expand housing production, including lifting floor-area-ratio caps to enable office-to-residential conversions. It filed 14 disclosures in 2023 reporting $360,000 in compensation through Actum, Green Book Strategies and Sanchez himself. It lobbied 10 Council members, including Adrienne Adams and Keith Powers, on legislation to expand affordable housing citywide and on state office-conversion and FAR-cap issues.
- Council members lobbied
- 10
- Filings (since 2021)
- 14
- Lobbying compensation (since 2021)
- $360,000
Lobbied these council members
- Sandra Ung Council Member, District 20 (Queens)
- James F. Gennaro Council Member, District 24 (Queens)
- Lynn C. Schulman Council Member, District 29 (Queens)
- Julie Menin Council Member, District 5 (Manhattan)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Actum CA Opco, LLC Lobbyist firm
- Green Book Strategies LLC Lobbyist firm
- John Sanchez Lobbyist firm
Lobbied former members
Members who have since left their seat
- Adrienne Adams
- Erik Bottcher
- Justin Brannan
- Kalman Yeger
- Keith Powers
- Rafael Salamanca Jr.
Offices and officials lobbied
from the targets named in their filings
- Borough President - Brooklyn Named: Antonio Reynoso, Erin Buchanan
- City Planning, Department of (DCP) Named: Dan Garodnick, Genevieve Michel
- Community Boards Bronx Board No. 12 Named: Board Full, Committee Housing
- Borough President - Bronx Named: Vanessa Gibson
- Borough President - Manhattan Named: Mark Levine
- Borough President - Queens Named: Donovan Richards
- City Legislative Affairs, Mayor's Office of Named: Jonas Nieri
- Community Boards Manhattan Board No. 11 Named: Committee Housing
- Community Boards Manhattan Board No. 4 Named: Committee Housing
- Community Boards Queens Board No. 2 Named: Board Full
- Housing Authority (NYCHA) Named: Jessica Katz
- Mayor, Office of the (OTM) Named: Diane Savino
- NYC Council - Committee Staff Named: Jae Ko
- State Legislative Affairs, Mayor's Office of Named: Crystal Price
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Legislation to Expand NYC Affordable Housing Citywide
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - affordable housing
- State Issue - Office conversions and FAR cap
Bills named in their filings
Council bills this client referred to in its own lobbying filings.
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