Moderator
Greg David
The City Reporter
Navigating Tax Burdens in New York's Housing Landscape
Rising property tax burdens are pushing homeowners — particularly in gentrifying and historically disinvested neighborhoods — toward tax foreclosure, forced sales, and displacement. This panel brings together practitioners, funders, and advocates to examine how New York's property tax system intersects with housing stability, from assessment inequities and exemption gaps to emerging relief programs and policy reforms. Panelists will discuss what's working, where the system is falling short, and what it will take to keep homeowners, especially the most vulnerable, in their homes.
The City Reporter
Executive Director
Brooklyn Lvl Up
Allyson Martinez, Esq. is the Founding Executive Director of Brooklyn Level Up (BKLVLUP), a community development and social impact nonprofit rooted in East Flatbush, Flatbush, and Flatlands. She leads the development of East Flatbush's first Community Resilience Hub, working across land ownership, environmental justice, cultural preservation and economic power for BIPOC communities in The Flats. Allyson is also a practicing startup business law attorney, a licensed Corcoran Group real estate broker, and Co-Trustee of the Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition.
Housing Policy Analyst
Community Service Society of New York
Oksana Mironova is a Director of Housing Policy with the Community Service Society of New York, where researches and advocates for rent stabilization, social housing, as well as other policies that benefit low-income New Yorkers. Her writing has appeared in Hell Gate, The Baffler, as well as other publications.
Clinical Professor of Public Service; Director of Management Specialization
NYU Wagner
Chief of Neighborhood Renewal Division
Massachusetts Attorney General's Office
Amber is the Chief of the Neighborhood Renewal Division (NRD) in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office and has served in that role since 2020. NRD partners with communities to revitalize neighborhoods through the equitable preservation of existing housing and by supporting the creation of affordable housing. Among other initiatives, NRD works with municipalities to identify and rehabilitate vacant and distressed residential properties using multiple tools, including receivership. Amber joined the Massachusetts AG’s Office in 2008 as an Assistant Attorney General in the Consumer Protection Division where she worked on significant housing and mortgage lending matters, including the National Mortgage Settlement, a large-scale investigation and settlement with Countrywide Mortgage, and assisted in the design and launch of the AG’s HomeCorps program, a foreclosure mediation program. She also served as the Supervising Attorney for Tobacco Enforcement where she worked to publish statewide regulations to prevent the sale of e-cigarettes to children. Prior to joining the AG’s Office, Amber practiced at Dechert LLP and Sally & Fitch. A Cambridge resident, Amber is a graduate of Boston College Law School and Colorado College.
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