Mayor Eric Adams.
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Final week, the Metropolis Planning Fee listened to the voices of numerous New Yorkers and stated ‘sure’ to the “Metropolis of Sure for Housing Alternative” — probably the most pro-housing modifications within the historical past of the town’s zoning code. New Yorkers can’t afford to attend any longer for reasonably priced housing. With a 1.4 % emptiness charge and the hire being too rattling excessive, households are getting priced out left and proper.
To ship the reasonably priced housing New Yorkers want and deserve, each stage of presidency has a job to play. Our administration and the state got here collectively to satisfy this generational disaster head-on, and now, the Metropolis Council has their second in entrance of them. I urge councilmembers to affix New Yorkers in supporting this proposal and constructing a future that’s extra reasonably priced for working-class households, that gives peace of thoughts for older adults who wish to age in place, and that enables our younger folks to reside comfortably within the biggest metropolis on the globe. That begins with them saying ‘sure’ to this once-in-a-generation housing proposal.
New Yorkers from each nook of our metropolis are becoming a member of us in saying ‘sure.’ From housing advocates and labor to clergy and New Yorkers who have been on the verge of homelessness, on a regular basis folks see the significance of advancing daring concepts and large options to this present disaster. The proposal additionally obtained favorable suggestions from Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, and Queens Borough President Donovan Richards.
The numbers present that these proposals are extensively standard. A new poll discovered that 72 % of voters accredited of the Metropolis of Sure when it was defined to them. And when New Yorkers hear the info about of Metropolis of Sure, they depart saying “sure” to the proposal. This is the reason it’s essential for all New Yorkers to unfold the phrase concerning the proposal in homes of worship, their office, or wherever you could go.
We hope each councilmember will take this chance to affix New Yorkers in saying ‘sure’ to our Metropolis of Sure for Housing Alternative proposal, and assist us construct a future that’s extra reasonably priced for working households, veterans, households, immigrants, and older adults. Now we have already finished a lot good work collectively on housing, and I do know we will proceed to do much more.
Inexpensive housing has been a day one precedence of our administration and we have now the observe document to indicate it. Now we have had back-to-back record-breaking years in each creating and connecting New Yorkers to reasonably priced housing, dedicated a document $26 billion in housing capital within the present 10-year plan, and efficiently advocated for a number of new instruments in Albany to construct sooner, extra reasonably priced housing — to call just a few of our wins. Collectively, with all these wins and Metropolis of Sure for Housing Alternative, we’re striving to attain our moonshot aim of 500,000 new houses by 2032.
Each new residence in our metropolis means extra jobs, decrease rents, a stronger economic system, and a greater future for all New Yorkers. I stay up for working collectively to construct our means out of this housing disaster and to open the doorways of alternative to the subsequent era of New Yorkers.
