Ask any young person, senior citizen, or working-class New Yorker about the biggest issues facing our city and you’ll hear the same response: affordable housing. When our administration came into office, we were clear that our city could not afford to keep kicking the can down the road on housing; it was not enough to tinker around the edges of our housing crisis, and we could not pass the buck off to a future administration. We had to undertake ambitious initiatives to build hundreds of thousands of new homes as soon as possible — and that is exactly what we have done for three years.
From the Bronx to Staten Island, across every borough and neighborhood in New York City, our administration has created record amounts of affordable housing year after year. We passed the first citywide zoning reform in 60 years to build a little more housing in every neighborhood and advanced five ambitious neighborhood plans to scrap outdated zoning in neighborhoods like Jamaica and Bronx Metro North. Rezoning is the lever that moves the boulders of bureaucracy out of the way, especially when it comes to building new housing. That is why our rezoning strategy has been such a success, helping clear the way to create an incredible 130,000 new homes across the five boroughs — more than all the rezonings under the Bloomberg and de Blasio administrations combined.
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Op-Ed | The most pro-housing administration in city history