With Gov. Kathy Hochul abandoning her proposal to force New York’s suburbs to build more housing, Mayor Eric Adams’ administration and its allies are redoubling their efforts to ensure the city gains the power to spur more housing construction by converting office buildings, extending tax credits for developers and allowing greater density.
To help push those through, the governor for the first time has indicated she is willing to accept a statewide rent voucher program, a key objective of tenant advocates. The program would provide money to the city’s public housing authority to cover unpaid rent, say sources who have been briefed by those in the negotiations. As THE CITY has previously reported, more than 70,000 NYCHA tenants owe a total of $466 million in back rent.
The sudden rush of developments from Albany on Tuesday may serve as a break in the impasse that has held up the state budget, now 19 days late — but they also mean a significant defeat for Hochul.
Tuesday’s concession by the governor comes after she made housing the centerpiece of her policy goals once she won the governor’s race in November. Hochul called on the state to build 800,000 new housing units over the next decade, a number that includes the 500,000 new units that Adams promised to create over the next 10 years.
The governor’s original Housing Compact proposal established goals for new housing in every community and set up a statewide board that could greenlight projects that had been rejected in towns and villages that failed to meet their housing goals. Lawmakers in the state’s suburban districts — especially in Long Island and Westchester — had staunchly opposed the plan, saying it ripped control away from locals.
As word circulated in the capital on Tuesday that Hochul was giving up on her previous housing requirements, the governor essentially conceded defeat.
“After weeks of negotiation, the legislature continues to oppose core elements of the Housing Compact, including the requirement that communities across the state meet growth targets,” Hochul said in a statement. “I will continue to discuss other elements of the plan and policy changes that will increase supply and make housing more affordable.”
Instead of specific requirements for new housing creation, the budget is now likely to include some version of a proposal the legislature has made to create a $500 million fund for infrastructure upgrades, such as improving roads and sewers, to communities that meet goals for new housing.
Groups that have spent the last year arguing that the state’s housing shortage is a result of too little housing development, and that local community resistance preserves segregation in the suburbs, wasted little time in blasting state lawmakers.
“We are extremely disappointed that the legislature failed to address segregation and the housing shortage by rejecting the visionary Housing Compact and instead capitulated to powerful NIMBYs who prefer the status quo,” said Rachel Fee, executive director of the New York Housing Conference. “By doing so, New York’s elected officials have once again let their constituents down and signaled that the ongoing housing emergency is acceptable.”
The housing goals would have applied to every community district in the city as well.
Still alive are proposals advanced by the Adams administration. They include legislation to ease the conversion of obsolete office buildings into residential housing — possibly including a tax break to encourage some of the units to be designated as below-market-rate housing; changes to state law to allow thousands of basement apartments to be legalized, and extending a deadline for completion of residential buildings that poured their foundations before the valuable 421-a tax break expired last spring.
In a statement on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Adams promised to keep pushing the administration’s plan.
“Our administration has been on the ground daily in Albany in recent months advancing critical tools like flexible regulations for office conversations, lifting the floor area ratio cap, creating a pathway to make basement and cellar apartments safe and legal, and creating tax incentives to develop new housing while maintaining housing quality,” said Charles Lutvak, a spokesperson for the mayor.
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Thank goodness Krazy Kathy's "expand the plantation" plan is out.
More houses for the sheeple. I'm sure the QAnon drone will have issues with this.
Lots of free condoms, all around the world, would solve the housing and immigration issues.
Sometimes the simple solution is the one that no politician wants to implement.
The once-great Empire State is crumbling before our eyes.
They will never stop until they run out of other people's money.
The suburban white wine moms voted in these leftist Democrats will continue to vote for the Marxist Left.
The failure is the votes the Shepple gave to her and her Marxist Party !
@“ The failure is the votes the Shepple gave to her and her Marxist Party !”
Please stop spreading your hate, you hateful godless creature!
Kitara What is QAnon news ? Where do you read it ?
No sympathy here NY. You reap what you sow.
Merry Eid al-Fitr day to you all.
"Lots of free condoms, all around the world, would solve the housing and immigration issues."
Lol!! As if they weren't already made available by meddling Western NGOs. But ok, hon, you go to Africa and try to convince the folks there to put on a condom. The meddlers have been trying it for decades. Doesn't work.
As for immigration, are you aware there are nearly 8 BILLION people out there who are not yet in America? And at least half of them would like to be. And with Sniffy Joe leaving the gates wide open, they are pouring in every day.
Did you know that just this year (it's only April) there were over 40 million people born? But yeah, condoms. Lol!
"Sometimes the simple solution is the one that no politician wants to implement."
Maybe because as stupid as most politicians are, even they aren't THAT stupid.
I Blame the Dem0Rats
Trump/Kennedy 2024 or Trump/Lake
She will try agian, very soon...
Breaking News said...
@"Sometimes the simple solution is the one that no politician wants to implement"
Like enforcing the Law !!!
She needs to go work at McDonald's.
A whistle blower should disclose what all these people have in their bank accounts.
Were Hilter and Saltin were owned by the same handlers ?
These people are very evil. They just can't leave working people alone.
NY could have had Lee Zeldin, a competent person, but they had to go full libtard and elect this Marxist witch--undoubtedly with more than a little help from vote shenanigans. Suck on it, NY.
Marxist?
Are you on drugs? Kathy Clown is no Marxist. She's a generic corporate Democrat.
Just curious if you even know what Marxist means? Or is it something you heard from the self-confessed liars on Fox News?
I’m sorry for the people who did not vote for the Swagger Mayor, but not for the ones who voted for him and/or the Clown Gov as they deserve everything they get.
This will continue until the adults in the room stand up and make changes.
Perhaps Mayor Adams should buy a new suit and hit the club tonight--that usually helps.
HAHAHAHA Adams. You haven't seen anything yet. Wait til title 42 expires.
All you democrats have destroyed the city
Good, you New Yorkers get what you deserve. Keep voting Blue.
Owning a home is not a right !
"Equal rights for all, special privileges for none"
Thomas Jefferson
Hey Buzzfeed don't let the door hit you on way out.
1776 said...
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money" - Margaret Thatcher
Kitara What is QAnon news ? Where do you read it ?
Keep voting Democrat and you will have a police state in 10 years. One where you will have to prove your innocence and “right think”. Don’t think it can’t happen here, think again...
Do all Democrats lie, cheat and steal ?
Will they unironically call others fascists and threats to democracy ?
Will they will silence you & put you in a gulag ? Asking for a friend...
Democrats are doing their damnedest to win the corruption race.
Sheeple how that Kool aid taste ?
Nothin but lies from politicians whose state and cities are out of control.
Oh, what a hero... solving a crisis he helped create... how noble.
Eric you want to be the next president ? Lol...
Did you vote Republican? If you voted Democrat don’t complain!!
If a Dem, as Adams is, this is the best you'll get. Feckless and weak. Even if pointing out the reality. Why NYC won't save their own city by voting for strong Republicans is beyond me. It worked in the 80s/90s after Dem destruction in the 70s.
Let's talk about real disinformation: Sheeple, they think republicans are wicked and dems will give them handouts. Lol...
Adams got over 700,000 votes. In total, just over 1 million people voted in the NYC Mayor election. NYC has over 8 million people. Where the hell are all the other people who aren’t voting ? Only 22% came out to vote for DeBlasio in his first election - there's no choice in a Communist-run city so why bother to vote...
NY is not a swamp. Its a sewer.
Housing Justice For All and the Young Communist League are pulling strings.
These groups have developed years-long financial ties with far-left billionaire financier George Soros.
@"1776 said...
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
Says someone living on social security. Driving on public roads, parking on public roads, using medicare, the internet, public water and utilities.
The only socialist thing you didn't take advantage of was public school, and it shows.
And you are whining about socialism?
Sad...
@"Hey Buzzfeed don't let the door hit you on way out."
Why not?
@"Were Hilter and Saltin were owned by the same handlers ?"
Surely your first language isn't English?
As for your question, you could check with Donald J. Trump, Clarence Thomas or Meatball Ron, as they seem to be emulating those two as best as their feeble brains can manage.
@NPC_doofus, re: "Thank goodness Krazy Kathy's..."
You seem to like all those K's. Do you attend those KKK meetings with angry Zoe and Krazy Joe from Rockaway/Ridgewood and City Island?
@"Trump/Kennedy 2024 or Trump/Lake"
Or Trump/Turd 2024?
Waiting to see how Trump can be blamed.
Build Back Better FJB...
The piles of garbage is Up
And the Battery's Down
New York, New York !
The Honduran Hitman is now
Stayin The Plaza
On your dime!
New York, New York!
@""The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money" - Margaret Thatcher"
Now, she was a real Patriotic American!
Let's build these hovels up in her hometown of Buffalo...
I've been trolling sad, very sad...
Wow, looks like some QAnon creep and Florida swamp rat is having a complete meltdown. Time to get back on your meds.
Where is Queens own Homeless Czar Andy Hevesi in all this?
@"Blame the Dem0RatsTrump/Kennedy 2024 or Trump/Lake"
Kennedy is a Democrat communist. Lake has a better chance as she's a complete freak show, which is what real America wants.
I'm happy for NYC !
Why do 99.9999% of media root for the dem0rats. It's a disgrace.
Asa Hutchinson/God 2024
@"Let's build these hovels up in her hometown of Buffalo..."
Ok. Let me know when you are done.
Keep voting democrat
3 years and they're still trying to blame Trump, talk about living rent free.
Keep your hands off my gas stove to !
New Biden Rule Will Redistribute High Risk Loan Costs To Homeowners With Good Credit
Charlie Kirk said...
According to a new, insane Biden Admin rule, people with good credit will be assessed higher mortgage rates to subsidize riskier loans to people with lower credit. Homeowners will now be punished for being responsible.
Biden's attack on success in the name of "equity" continues.
IMPEACH Biden!
Remember when the left acted like it cared about immigrant children? Well, thanks to Biden's open border, the DHS can't locate 85,000 immigrant children inside the US.
Where is the wall-to-wall news coverage? Where’s the outrage? Where are the fake crying photo-ops, Sandy?
@“ New Biden Rule Will Redistribute High Risk Loan Costs To Homeowners ..”
Did Tucker tell you this? Or was it an update from QAnon?
@“ Keep your hands off my gas stove to !”
Sure. Now please inhale deeply and often.
@"the DHS can't locate 85,000 immigrant children inside the US"
They were probably shot by some mentally deranged teenager who legally got a machine gun at the local redneck store.
@"Biden's attack on success in the name of "equity" continues"
This message was brought to you by "Dumbo News".
Next up, "Is Donald Trump an angel sent by God to save Merica?"
@"Why do 99.9999% of media root for the dem0rats. It's a disgrace."
1. Because it's so easy to make fun of really dumb right-wingers and Trumpanzees.
2. Most corporate media takes the side of corporate interests, not democrats. That's why George W. got his war, Bernie Sanders gets silenced, inflation is blamed on the Sheeple, Immigration and outsourcing is lauded for cheap labor, strikes are blamed on the workers, and scooters are blamed for deaths on the road.
3. Trump got elected thanks to corporate media's war on Hilary.
4. And also because it's so easy to make fun of really dumb right-wingers and Trumpanzees.
Corn Pop has a brother named Pudding Po.
So am I supposed to take kitarass serious ?
Alright folks, here we have it. The end of the blog catchphrase. This was it - the policy that would curb the overdevelopment and tweeding of Queens. Instead the miscreant that runs the blog takes the side of the pearl clutching Nassau County NIMBYs happy to keep their townships preserved like amber while rebny laugh their way to the bank. Outwitted, outNIMBY’d, and out of luck again, eh, JQ? Just go with what feels good and change the blog name and catchphrase to Q(ueens) Anon - a website dedicated to an anonymous angry persons uninformed and counterintuitive opinions
@"Keep voting democrat"
Yes, until there is another viable alternative.
@"I'm happy for NYC !"
Thank you. I'm so happy here, too. Sometimes I like to visit the countryside, but eventually I need to get back to civilization.
US Border Trafficking Far Worse Than Imagined, Whistleblower Claims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B2mcItTFH0&ab_channel=Styxhexenhammer666
It’s ok. Sandy went to the border and cried. So we’re good. Move along.
Kitarea you forgot Klaus Schwabs and Georgie Soros.
Boston Dynamics DigiDog can't discriminate.
DigiDog is the answer to Defund the Police.
Shoot them all and let their maker sort them out.
We need in-wall guns that use AI to shoot crooks.
Can't prosecute a gun. Can't even figure whose it be.
Just set it and forget it,
Limited gooberment and free markets vs. Central planning and command and control economics. Think Socialism / Communism. Always fails, and yet here we are.
@"Limited gooberment and free markets vs. Central planning and command and control economics. "
I'm all for "limited gooberment".
@"So am I supposed to take kitarass serious ?"
I'm not sure. Is "kitarass" a medication?
Says someone living on social security. Driving on public roads, parking on public roads, using medicare, the internet, public water and utilities.
The only socialist thing you didn't take advantage of was public school, and it shows.
And you are whining about socialism?
------------------------------------------------------------------------
You been brainwashed or are you really that stupid?
I cant believe I'm reading such a stupid comment, are you a millennial?
FACT 1:
Public roads, parks, parking we pay taxes or motor vehicle registration fee for.
FACT2:
The money for social security, medicare has already been culled from every paycheck since we been working. Its our money in the first place !!!
Worse when the government to my dollar in 1977 it was worth ONE DOLLAR and bought a lot of stuff.
Now in 2023 that dollar taken from me in 1977 is worth near nothing, buys nothing and I get no interest!!
If you had a job and paid taxes, had to pay a CPA or did your income tax, knew how to fill a 1040 (or 1040-SE and Schedule C for all you so called artists and self employed) you would know all these things.
YOU DON'T BECAUSE YOU DON'T WORK OR EARN ANYTHING WORTH A SHIT!
YOUR THE FREE LOADER, who repeats what he or she is told like a programmed robot.
-Ned
www.nra.org
It will presumable be quickly found unconstitutional as it was in kalifornia, but libs NEVER give up - they keep attacking and attacking.
@Ned www.nra.org Thank you. Her Marxist BS is getting old.
@Ned
You just defined socialism, and you are a socialist, whether you like it or not.
@Ned
Take a hike, commie! You're a social security, free parking, free road use, freeloader.
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