Administration is advancing more than 50,000 homes across 100 City sites
Today, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning Leila Bozorg released the Land Inventory Fast Track (LIFT) Tracker, an interactive tool that gives New Yorkers their first comprehensive look at the administration’s pipeline of affordable housing on publicly owned land.
The tracker maps more than 100 City-owned sites across the five boroughs that will deliver more than 50,000 new homes, making it easier for New Yorkers to follow the City’s progress in bringing new housing online.
LIFT also highlights opportunities to pair new housing with public amenities, including libraries and other neighborhood services. The Mamdani administration will maintain an aggressive pace of affordable housing development on City-owned land, issuing requests for proposals (RFPs) for five or more new sites each year.
Developing housing on City land is a central part of the Mayor’s Block by Block housing plan, which charts a path to create 200,000 new affordable homes over the next decade while investing in public housing, preserving existing affordable homes, strengthening tenant protections and expanding homeownership opportunities.
“Too many New Yorkers are being priced out of their homes. We have a responsibility to use every tool we have to build the affordable housing our city needs. The LIFT tracker brings transparency to that work and makes clear that City-owned land is not sitting idle—it is becoming homes, libraries and community space across the five boroughs,” said Mayor Mamdani.
“On his first day in office, Mayor Mamdani charged us with exploring how we can best use City-owned land to deliver the housing that New Yorkers need – and we are delivering. We have already taken tangible steps forward on more than a dozen projects on public land that will create more than 5,000 new homes, and we are bringing unprecedented public transparency and engagement into this project with the release of the new LIFT tracker,” said Leila Bozorg, Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning. “We’ll continue our work to advance housing on public sites across the five boroughs, using every tool at our disposal to speed up these projects and identify creative ways to maximize our resources.”
Since taking office, Mayor Mamdani has moved quickly to accelerate affordable housing production on City-owned land. On his first day in office, the Mayor signed Executive Order 4, creating the LIFT Task Force. Since then, the Mayor has completed the city’s first Expedited Land Use Review Procedure (ELURP) and launched the Neighborhood Builders Fast Track. Together, those initiatives will cut as much as two years from the pre-development timeline for affordable housing on City-owned land.
The administration has also launched the Streamlining Procedures to Expedite Equitable Development (SPEED) reforms to reduce the time it takes to build affordable housing and successfully advocated in Albany for reforms to modernize the state’s environmental review process.
The Mamdani administration has also advanced several major projects on City-owned land. It selected a development team to build “The Aurea,” which will create approximately 131 affordable homes on the site of a former NYPD parking lot in the East Village. Yesterday, HPD announced the selection of a development team to build The Orion, including nearly 1,000 new homes and community amenities, on a long-vacant lot in Hunters Point. The Mamdani administration also released RFPs for the redevelopment of the New Utrecht Library in Brooklyn to build 100% affordable housing and a new library, and to build a mixed-use building on the “B-East” site in East Harlem. The administration also continues to move forward two additional projects co-locating affordable housing with new library facilities at the Grand Concourse and Bloomingdale Libraries.
Earlier this year, the administration announced the first three sites to use the Neighborhood Builders Fast Track in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Jerome Avenue in the Bronx and St. Albans, Queens. Together, those developments will deliver up to 300 new affordable homes, including approximately 100 affordable homeownership opportunities.
The administration has also launched public engagement on plans to transform a City service center in Bedford-Stuyvesant into a mixed-use development with 100% affordable housing and expanded social services, and closed financing to create 229 affordable senior homes for the Sol on Park project on NYCHA’s Morris Houses campus.
These steps are part of the administration’s broader “all-of-the-above” strategy to address New York City’s housing crisis. The recently adopted budget invests a historic $22 billion in affordable housing over five years, including nearly $5 billion in capital funding for new affordable housing over the next two years.
The Mayor’s Block by Block plan sets goals that meet the scale and the urgency of the housing crisis, including building 200,000 new homes and preserving another 200,000 over the next decade. The administration is also investing $5.6 billion in NYCHA over five years, the largest City capital investment in public housing in recent history.
In addition, Mayor Mamdani has strengthened protections for tenants and homeowners by revitalizing the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, introducing the Rental Ripoff reforms – a package of 23 policy changes shaped by tenant input – and launching the City’s first Mayor’s Office of Deed Theft Prevention.
“With LIFT, we’re creating our city’s first-ever comprehensive land inventory tracker for housing, making it easier and faster to develop housing on land owned by all city agencies,” said Housing Preservation & Development Commissioner Dina Levy. “Thank you to Mayor Mamdani and Deputy Mayor Bozorg for prioritizing development on city-owned land, and thank you to our agency partners for joining us in taking action on this crisis.”
“The LIFT Tracker will provide New Yorkers with a clear view into how the City is leveraging public land to address our unprecedented housing shortage,” said HDC President Eric Enderlin. “HDC looks forward to working with our colleagues across City government to continue expanding the supply of deeply affordable homes in the months and years ahead.”
“New York City's future depends on our ability to preserve public housing and accelerate the development of new affordable homes,” said NYCHA Chief Executive Officer Lisa Bova-Hiatt. “We applaud the Mamdani administration for making affordable housing a priority and recognizing the opportunity in delivering more affordable homes for New Yorkers on publicly owned land. We look forward to continuing this important work together as we explore new public development projects that can expand affordable housing opportunities for both NYCHA residents and low-income New Yorkers, much like the Sol on Park project.”
“Addressing New York City's housing crisis requires using every tool available, including our portfolio of City-owned land,” said NYCEDC Interim President & CEO Jeanny Pak. “The LIFT Tracker gives New Yorkers a clearer view of the affordable housing opportunities on publicly owned sites and the progress being made to bring those projects to life. NYCEDC is proud to partner with City agencies to help advance projects that help deliver housing, strengthen neighborhoods, and expand economic opportunity across the five boroughs.”
“Among The New York Public Library’s proudest accomplishments is the redevelopment of our Inwood Library branch, which now has affordable housing on top. We are delighted that this work—upgrading and investing in local libraries while helping the city construct affordable homes—is continuing at our Grand Concourse and Bloomingdale Library branches. These projects are huge wins for our communities and we look forward to more projects like these down the line,” said Anthony W. Marx, President and CEO of The New York Public Library.
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