Sorry, NIMBYs: Your opposition to New York housing creation has just been drowned out by a resounding $5 billion of “Yes.”
A City Council subcommittee on Thursday approved Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to build 80,000 new homes over the next 15 years, lowering the cost of rent for New Yorkers amid one of the worst housing crises in city history. Dubbed “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity,” the rezoning proposal aims to spur the creation of affordable housing in all five boroughs, along with upgrades to critical infrastructure. The approval by the City Council Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises and Committee on Land Use was secured following a $5 billion pledge from the city and state.
According to the city, the proposal exceeds the housing creation total of all rezonings pushed out by the administrations of Michael Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio.
“Thanks to our shared commitment in building critically needed housing, we have reached an agreement on a historic plan that could open the doors to a little more housing in every neighborhood in our city,” Adams said in a statement on Thursday. “If passed, New York City will once again serve as a model to the nation on government’s infinite ability to take challenges head on, set forth a bold agenda, and get the job done.”
The plan, first announced in April, originally sought to facilitate more than 100,000 new housing units. It also included provisions for lifting the parking space requirement for new residential construction, which developers claim adds an undue cost burden, and for unrestricting property owners’ ability to create accessory dwelling units in spaces like basements, attics, and garages.
Thursday’s amended proposal involved concessions on all three points. Rather than dropping the parking requirement wholesale, it will instead divide it into three zones, preserving the mandate in boroughs like Staten Island and Queens where local lawmakers deemed it necessary. Further, accessory dwelling creation will remain restricted in many areas, particularly in historic districts and flood zones, but will be permitted in transit-proximate areas.
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None of this will change under Trump.
Out with the corrupt corporate Democrats, in with the corrupt corporate Republicans.
Welcome to the corporate American state.
Now I'll be able to rent out my backyard garage. Will I be able to build a studio apartment up in the tree next to the garage?
Snip: "accessory dwelling creation will remain restricted in many areas"
Translation: Cheap nasty looking chicken coop pre-fab box added to on every roof & back yard. Usually to collect sec 8 money to pay off mortgages. When you have no more rules it encourages more speculators & slumlords to buy & build up.
This is a disaster equal to dropping a nuclear bomb in every neighborhood.
1-And how is the 100+ year old water, sewer & gas infrastructure to handle this?
2-Where are people supposed to park there cars when you have perhaps 100 more people per street to the current difficult parking? In Ridgewood people coming home from work already got to drive around the block as much as 75 times + hour per day to find a parking space.
This as perhaps 1 million deadbeats & illegal immigrants who will occupy these boxes, sit home, get loaded and fornicate all day long with our tax dollars.
Due to the Marxist housing courts protecting deadbeats & savages most landlords will now only do a section 8 contract with the city for guaranteed rent & protection. Thats what these new buildings & accessory dwellings will all be.
Good job marxist democrat voters!!
-Joe
And where do they think these people will park if you get rid of parking space requirements? Also, do they realize that the more they build, the more sanitation workers, police precinct, fire department, schools and bus and train services will be needed?
Please post names of sub-committee members who voted yes
>>Will I be able to build a studio apartment up in the tree next to the garage<<
Construction will be Sh*t
Like in 3rd world country's: Cut the tree down and leaving a 36 inch high stump, you then bolt plywood too it and call it a kitchen table. No doubt near everything will cheap, be self certification and rubber stamped.
Possibly even modified shipping containers.
Lets not forget those $18,000 kit fold out homes from Amazon that come in a box.
You can bet there will be no aesthetic architectural approval necessary.
Globalists need to destroy the lives of advisories, the disobedient before they can implement their plan. Letting criminals and homeless shelters didn't work out to well so now this gunpoint tactic.
Destroy anybody with brains, those who usually cannot be manipulated, not on board with the socialist plan.
All it takes is small cabal of radicals to work themselves into positions of, Government power, Academia and the media and are imposing radical policies because they HATE what this once great city and country was.
The solution here was to drop bombs on everybody, break them, destroy nice neighborhoods, give working class homeowners who have been here generation's to earn the homes they own, earn the right to live in a better neighborhood, own a car, choose not to not want tenants (strangers in the house) no choice but sell and go away or get used to misery and destruction.
All the same blazy crap and gloom (including crime, massive alcoholism, drugs & prostitution) that has let to what you now see in now in eastern block communist country outer city's.
It didn't work out well there and wont work here!!
-Zoë
this city needs more housing supply to address existing and future demand, and to replace incrementally aging housing stock. a strong argument could be made that all of this housing should be market rate only, so that the market rate units do not have to subsidize the income-restricted units. let the market flourish. Queens Crap has gotten incredibly socialistic in the past few year; such odd bedfellows between the Queens Crap/Queens Civic Congress and DSA members. Sorry to say, but both you and DSA agree on opposing the unlocking of allowing more housing to be built
Build baby build. Don't listen to the communist naysayers.
This is a death sentence for desirable zoned R 1 through R 3 neighborhoods!
When the whole city becomes equally a crappy place to live, then there is nothing to work hard for that you can move up to.
This is Communism: to spread misery equally.
""This is Communism: to spread misery equally""
Yes, It was all planned in steps to get thing done copied from places like Sweden, Amsterdam and other socialist shitloles Northern Europe.
"set up the dominoes"
Next they will use your household census and house square footage to bring the criminals, drug addicts and single moms of 5 to your door. They will call you a disobedient, racist anti socialist and haul your ass away if you don't hand over the keys to whatever the deem is wasted space. Oh...cant own certain cars unless you share them too!!
Try finding ONE citizen owed Caddy or Lincoln Conrenantal in Sweden or Amsterdam. (unless it owned by a politician or journalist with special press plates and a satellite tracking device)
The old governor King Cuomo II warned everybody:
Quote "If you wanna own guns and don't like sharing with your fellow man get the hell out, New York is no place for you"
There is nothing communist about capitalism. You wouldn't know communion if it landed on your head.
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