Ahead of the City Council’s vote on the City of Yes housing plan, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander released the following statement:
“Hard-working New Yorkers are struggling under the crushing cost of housing, dedicating half their paycheck to rent because generations of City leaders have failed to adequately increase the city’s housing supply.
“Today, by passing the most robust version of City of Yes, New York City can begin to address our housing shortage by building a little more housing in every neighborhood. I urge the Council to resist NIMBY pressure to trim the proposal and roll back urgently needed housing reform.
“City of Yes alone isn’t going to solve our affordability crisis. We’ll still need efforts like the one I was proud to lead in Gowanus, where 8,000 units of housing are rising, 3,000 of them affordable to working-class families. And we need new approaches to affordable homeownership, preserving distressed rental housing, expanding rental assistance, and much more. But City of Yes is a big and crucial step in the right direction.
“New York City will never pull out of our housing affordability crisis if we continue to prioritize parking spaces over housing in transit-rich neighborhoods.”
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