New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced the issuance of executive order 43, which requires city agencies to review their city-owned and controlled land for potential housing development sites. The executive order, which builds off the goals of the “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” proposal, aims to support the Adams administration’s goal of building 500,000 new homes by 2032 to address the city’s affordable housing shortage.
The executive order establishes the City Housing Activation Task Force, with representatives from mayoral agencies and other public entities. The task force will review land under the ownership and control of the city to identify potential sites for housing development and develop guidelines to ensure agency policies promote housing production. All locations that can be used to further housing production without disrupting municipal operations will be considered.
Photograph from City of Yes for Housing Opportunity promotional page, via nyc.gov
Various city agencies have expressed their support for the executive order and commitment to participating in the review process, including the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, New York City Public Schools, Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Parks and Recreation, Department of Sanitation, and Department of Transportation.
“We appreciate Mayor Eric Adams’ commitment to affordable housing and look forward to our continued partnership to help his administration reach its goals,” said Anthony W. Marx, president and CEO, The New York Public Library. “We have a model for the innovative solutions necessary to unlock more affordable housing: our state-of-the-art Inwood Library includes deeply affordable housing units, and the proposed redevelopment of our Grand Concourse Library will have a similar provision. We’re excited to explore all options and work in partnership with the city to tackle this urgent issue.”
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Exactly How many people are supposed to live in NYC? It’s always a housing shortage. What number would be enough?
We are probably facing the most extreme housing shortage we have ever had.
There isn’t unlimited demand, and we have seen in other cities with growing populations building more can make housing more affordable.
NYC is building way less per person compared to other major cities, and we have plenty of places to build. Look at how much less dense Queens is compared to the Bronx and Brooklyn? Staten Island could support way more housing. Even Brooklyn and the Bronx have many single story commercial buildings that could be developed. The suburbs also need to play a role, there needs to be way more development around Metro North, LIRR, and NJ Transit.
City of Yes for Housing Opportunity makes it easier to build a little more spread out across the whole city. Combined with new larger rezonings will help. With the coming Interboro Express, the areas around the proposed stations begin the rezoning process as soon as possible. And there are many other areas that could use major rezonings.
Except for one or two counties, expansive & gorgeous upstate is steadily losing population. Too bad New York population in NY is not more distributed.
It’s probably better that those places depopulated so funds could focus on the more built up areas.
NOW he does this?!
We need to get rid of this DINO.
We are taking empty spaces, run down spaces, parking lots. Not parks and gardens.
Please get rid of all those scaffolds that are all over the city defacing the beautiful city many scaffolds all over the streets in front of businesses been there for the past 30 40 years
I will put up more scaffolding, thanks.
lets see how many years for this to come to fruition, will they give the non profit the opportunity to build truly affordable housing, or will they continue to give big tax break give aways the big private greedy developers in return to build only a few truly affordable shoe box units, and lets see if they can find these sites in better off neighborhoods to build truly affordable housing, time will tell, I mean years will tell.
The city can do what was done at the end of WWII—establish non-subsidized co-ops whose residents pay the construction costs, and naturally, all operational costs. This worked in the past and those buildings are still decent places to live. The present practice uses income guidelines that are often above the local economic level. The “affordable” units must be subsidized by market-rate tenants in the building. We also have to face the fact that wages have not kept pace with the cost of operating housing, even for at cost co-ops. There are some who simply cannot afford to live in NYC.
NYCHA authority infill is so obvious. Knock down the smaller buildings for larger ones, rehabilitate the taller ones where it makes sense, and fill in the grounds. Diversify the population. Allow for an automatic zoning bump on NYCHA property. Do it right and this is tens of thousands of units right here.
A great example is what is proposed for the Fulton and Chelsea Houses in Manhattan.