Mayor Eric Adams.
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Since day one in all our administration, constructing housing and bringing down the price of residing has been two of our prime priorities. We all know that to be able to make New York Metropolis the most effective place on the globe to lift a household, we want inexpensive housing throughout the 5 boroughs. We have to construct the housing working individuals, households, immigrants, and younger individuals want.
For the previous three years we’ve got gone to work to ship housing for New Yorkers day-after-day, in every single place. And final week, we introduced back-to-back record-breaking calendar years producing critically wanted inexpensive housing throughout the town. Now we have once more constructed essentially the most homeless models and most supportive models. We additionally housed our older adults by constructing a document variety of senior models.
Now we have additionally linked a document variety of New Yorkers to that housing, with HPD connecting extra New Yorkers to houses than ever earlier than in 2024. And due to our crew at NYCHA, we’ve got delivered greater than $1.7 billion in critically wanted capital repairs to our public housing websites. The New York Metropolis Division of Social Providers additionally linked a document variety of New Yorkers in shelter to sponsored everlasting housing. Moreover, greater than 14,600 households moved out of shelter utilizing a wide range of rental subsidies, reflecting a 24 p.c improve year-over-year.
However these information are extra than simply numbers — they’re older adults getting linked to accessible and inexpensive housing, previously homeless New Yorkers being handed a key to a secure and protected residence with a assist community, and households feeling like they’ll afford to stay within the best metropolis on the globe.
A house is extra than simply 4 partitions and a roof, it’s the key to unlocking the American Dream. It’s a path in direction of stability and a possibility. In an effort to meet our inexpensive housing disaster, head on, we should proceed to be daring and impressive.
That’s the reason in my State of the Metropolis deal with final month, we laid out a daring imaginative and prescient for our “Manhattan Plan” that can create 100,000 new houses within the borough, bringing the overall variety of houses in Manhattan to 1 million over the following decade.
We’re additionally constructing on our “Metropolis of Sure for Housing Alternative” plan, essentially the most pro-housing proposal in our metropolis historical past that can make investments billions and construct 80,000 new houses over the following 15 years. With “Metropolis of Sure for Households,” we are going to assist us construct much more housing that meets the wants of households, together with co-located housing with libraries and housing that’s nearer to public transportation.
We’re constructing with a “Every little thing, All over the place, All at As soon as” method. Which means constructing housing on each block, in each neighborhood, and in each borough. We aren’t simply breaking information in terms of housing. Final month, we introduced, for the eighth time since we entered workplace, that we broke the all-time excessive jobs document in our metropolis. However I do know the hustle on this metropolis is actual and that too many households are nonetheless struggling.
Every single day we’re combating to offer New Yorkers a key to their future. Collectively, we’re going to construct extra inexpensive housing so New York stays the most effective place to lift a household and a spot the place all New Yorkers can construct their American Goals.
