Since taking office nearly a year ago, Mayor Eric Adams has been beating the drum on making it easier to build more desperately needed apartments across the five boroughs as a way to alleviate the city's mounting housing crisis.
To that end, the mayor on Thursday announced perhaps his biggest action to take on the issue yet in a live streamed City Hall address where he rolled out “Get Stuff Built,” a package of 111 reforms aimed at making it easier to construct housing in the five boroughs by cutting down on regulations, updating old rules and reducing the price tag for developers.
Mayor Eric Adams delivering address on rule changes to build more housing in the city. Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022.In unveiling the plan, City Hall also set an ambitious “moonshot” goal of constructing 500,000 new homes over the next 10 years. That stands in stark contrast to Adams, just a few months ago,, when he released another housing plan in June.
“In the last decade, New York city grew by nearly 800,000 people, but we added just 200,000 homes to our city,” Adams said. “It’s not complicated. We have more people than homes. This shortage gives landlords the power to charge any price they want and leaves too many New Yorkers with no place to go.”
and eliminating the environmental review process, which assesses a project’s potential impact on the surrounding area, for proposals of under 200 units.
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