HGAR’s Orange County Day featured a Legislative Power Hour with County Executive Steve Neuhaus, who addressed a packed room with his trademark energy.
New York’s housing ecosystem is at an inflection point. Affordability pressures, development bottlenecks, small-property owner challenges, regulatory changes, and aging housing stock are all converging at the same time.
HGAR’s Orange County Day featured a Legislative Power Hour with County Executive Steve Neuhaus, who addressed a packed room with his trademark energy.
The role of an LPC includes attending public meetings, tracking local legislation, reporting back to HGAR’s Government Affairs team, and supporting the association’s broader communications strategy.
NAR has now launched the Pro-Property Platform, a system designed to strengthen federal political advocacy by allowing direct-to-candidate contributions to be tagged as pro-housing and pro-property rights.
With the full legislature and governor facing re-election in 2026, HGAR and NYSAR are already preparing for what could be a watershed year for housing policy.
Despite representing different parties, Latimer and Lawler share a bipartisan focus on housing policy solutions. Both have expressed support for raising the cap on the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction.
The Government Affairs Department at HGAR will be facilitating the first ever New York City Lobby Day on Oct. 23rd. In collaboration with the Long Island Board of Realtors, both organizations will be converging on City Hall to speak to our City Council members about our issues.
A significant portion of our end-of-session efforts was focused on opposing legislative proposals that would have negatively impacted New York’s real estate sector.
NAR had several topics it wanted HGAR and the rest of the Realtor community on the Hill that day to hammer home.
In the weeks leading up to heavy negotiations in Albany, HGAR personally educated more than two dozen elected officials on Good Cause Eviction and the most problematic aspects of valuing tenant protection over property rights.
HGAR supports legislation that adds affordable rent-stabilized apartments to the rental housing stock that are safe, lead-free, energy efficient, and fully compliant with building codes.
Studies have shown that the construction of 100 units of multifamily housing generates an average of 161 jobs and $11.7 million into the local economy in the first year.
Last year, more than 110 HGAR members attended Lobby Day, which represented one-third of the total turnout of the entire New York State Association of Realtors in Albany. With two busloads of Realtors, HGAR came out in force and that effort was recognized.
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