Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Hochul and Adams State and City Of Yes housing plans focus on basements, suburb towers and office buildings

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 NY Daily News

Suburbs would have to step up their development game under Gov. Hochul’s plan to build 800,000 new units of housing across the state in the coming years.

To confront the state’s housing crisis, Hochul proposed in her State of the State address Tuesday a plan dubbed the “New York Housing Compact,” which will require every town, city and village in the state to set a target number of new homes to create over a three-year period.

 The governor specifically called out suburban communities surrounding New York City for limiting building in recent decades and said in her address that the state is ready to step in.

“Local governments can meet these targets any way they want,” she said. “They can shape building capacity. They can redevelop old malls or buildings, office parks, incentivize new housing production or just update the zoning rules to reduce the barriers.”

However, she added, if communities “have not made good-faith efforts to grow when proposed housing projects are languishing for no legitimate reason, the state will implement a fast-track approval process.”

That “fast-track” course would allow housing proposals that are denied locally to go to a “state housing approval board” or the courts.

The downstate area, including Westchester, Putnam and both Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island, would be required to grow their housing stocks by 3% every three years.

Upstate towns would have to meet a target of 1% growth every three years. Hochul noted that New York in recent years has trailed other states, including New Jersey and Connecticut, when it comes building housing.

The governor also wants to see more multi-residence projects near MTA subway and train stations. The plan requires municipalities with MTA rail stations to rezone areas within half a mile of a station to allow for at least 25 homes per acre.

The proposal includes $250 million for infrastructure to accommodate the increased density including sewers, schools and road work. It also calls for an expedited environmental review process for rezonings.

“Today, we say no more delay. No more waiting for someone else to fix this problem. Housing is a human right,” Hochul said. “Ensuring enough housing is built is how we protect that right.”

Suburban legislators were largely quiet about Hochul’s proposals on Tuesday.

History shows they might be a heavy political lift — suburban politicians have traditionally complained about state laws that would require them to allow more housing.

Griping by suburban politicians forced Hochul to drop two such ideas from the state budget in 2022, including a plan to encourage housing near train stations similar to her current proposal. The other would have required towns to allow apartments to be built within single-family homes.

In the city, Hochul is seeking a new version of the lapsed property tax abatement plan known as 421-a, which would incentivize the building of affordable housing units. A revamped version of the program failed to make it into the budget last year.

Real estate groups and organizations like Homeowners for An Affordable New York, a landlord-backed group, applauded the governor’s proposals.

“The Governor outlined an ambitious agenda for addressing longstanding inequities in the housing market,” spokesman Andrew Mangini said in a statement. “Housing developers and property owners, both big and small, look forward to engaging in conversations with state lawmakers to ensure fair and equitable solutions to practical issues in housing and real estate.”

Tenant advocates and progressive lawmakers, meanwhile, panned the plan. They said it falls far short of what is needed to address the housing and affordability crisis already facing many New Yorkers.

 NY Daily News

Mayor Adams and top city planning officials released new details around their push to convert underused office space into apartments in the city’s bustling business districts, including a plan that would allow for the rezoning of millions of square feet of space in office buildings.

The blueprint, which Adams and city planners put out through a City Planning Department study, would in part require zoning changes to permit conversions in buildings built prior to 1991.

Currently, such office-to-residential conversions are only allowed in Financial District buildings built in 1977 or before, and buildings in other city

27 comments:

Anonymous said...

How about trailer parks?

Anonymous said...

Please don't give them any ideas. They may start putting them in a neighborhood near you. This is what you get for voting for her. Notice they are for the city what about in Albany near her palace

Anonymous said...

As we are all stakeholders and vested in this great reset plan, lets hope it works.

Anonymous said...

Homes for hobos and illegals.

Anonymous said...

Keep voting Democrat to solve the problems.

NPC_translator said...

Hochul is a psychopath.

Anonymous said...

Don't oppose the Green New Deal. That kind of talk is gonna get you sent to a Kathy Clown ReEducation Camp and lower your Carbon credit score.

Anonymous said...

Inflation isn’t that bad, unless you want to eat, drive your car, or heat your home.

Anonymous said...

Thank you Kathy for Saving us All and Keep up your Great work. #VOTE2026

Anonymous said...

It takes a swamp to ruin a State.

Anonymous said...

The right to keep and bear gas ovens shall not be infringed.

Anonymous said...

I know people who had legally converted their basements in 1970 who were told to dismantle them in 2010 because no one had their parents' paperwork. I understand the main requirement is TWO exits. Would you believe them now if they let you convert your basement that they won't come after your kids decades later?

Joe said...

This twitt 1/2 whit has perhaps a 1/2 million vacant or empty houses in upstate New York around Plattsburg and other ghost towns. This not including 1000s of zombie hotels, All ready to go and can be done on the cheap.
Why not ship all these illegal’s and problem people up their?
Why house the lazy broke ass, alcoholics, druggies, lazy, crazy and tweeded in the most expensive and congested place in the country?
Room for them all in Plattsburg, Ulster, Sullivan County and these are places they really can’t cause trouble. Pushing people under subway trains included.
Why destroy private home neighborhoods?

-Joe

NPC_translator said...

"Room for them all in Plattsburg, Ulster, Sullivan County and these are places they really can’t cause trouble."

The people of Plattsburg, Ulster, Sullivan County would disagree.

The REAL solution to illegals and migrants is to deny them ALL government services: no schools, no health care, no welfare, NOT ONE DIME. Suddenly El Salvador won't seem so bad.

Anonymous said...

This idiot commie's basic premise is ridiculous. Government does NOT "owe" you housing. If you can't find housing you can afford, move to a small town where there is housing you can afford. Her mind is totally warped into the commie template. Just wait, NYers--your lives will be further destroyed as she converts your city into one big world sanctuary for the world's trash and YOU will be the ATM machine for it all.

Anonymous said...

@ Why destroy private home neighborhoods?
Because they can....

Anonymous said...

Check out Zoning around Traffic Centers, too

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-statewide-strategy-address-new-yorks-housing-crisis-and-build-800000

New Focus on Transit-Oriented Development

The New York Housing Compact will require that localities with rail stations run by the MTA undertake a local rezoning or higher density multifamily development within half a mile of the station unless they already meet the density level. By expanding housing potential in these transit-oriented communities, more families will be able to enjoy improved access to jobs and thriving sustainable communities. 

Anonymous said...

Swagger just went to the border to bring more illegals to fill up these buildings with NYC tax payers money !

Anonymous said...

"I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society" George McGovern

Anonymous said...

Pure idiocy.

Anonymous said...

@ NPC_translator
You do an injustice to real "Pyschopaths"

Hochul is an asshole, simple as that

"Hochul is a psychopath.

Anonymous said...

Here in the great state of Florida we are happy in our trailer park swamps.

Anonymous said...

Does anyone really take Brandon, Swagger and Clown seriously?

Adriatic Hillbilly said...

Because this isn't about housing, Joe. This is about destroying a way of life in the name of "equity". These SOBs think that "Dr. Zhivago" is a "how - to" manual...

Anonymous said...

We have laws on the books for exactly this. But the voters have allowed many political misdirected "Woke"ideals to Trump the obvious solution.

Anonymous said...

New York voted for this.

Anonymous said...

But who would want to live in the suburbs? They're bleeding population for a reason.