New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a new “block by block” initiative to tackle the city’s affordable housing crisis Tuesday morning.
The plan focuses on 400,000 affordable housing units, enhancing tenant protections and investing in public housing. Some 200,000 of those units will be new, rent-stabilized homes built over the next decade, as well as preserving and stabilizing an additional 200,000 homes.
Will he need to change any zoning laws in New York to do this?
From the Common Dreams website Zedstrian posted:
“It will also include modifications to the zoning code to create hundreds of housing co-ops.”
I would think as mayor he would probably be the person in the best position to do such a thing.