Gov. Hochul and members of the Legislature are on a collision course over a controversial plan to build hundreds of thousands of units of housing. The point person for the governor says N.Y.'s housing crisis is a simple case of math. MKramerTV reports.
are on another collision course over a controversial plan to build hundreds of thousands of units of housing."In the last 10 years, we've built abut 400,000 units of housing and we've created 1.2 million jobs in the state. When you look at northern New Jersey, they've built almost 200,000 more housing units than jobs.
There has been intense push-back in the Long Island and Westchester suburbs because Hochul wants to require cities, towns and villages to increase their housing stock by 3% over three years or lose their ability to reject development proposals."We really are providing a lot of control to localities to say you can zone how you want. You can zone where you want.
So far, the Legislature has turned thumb's down. It doesn't want localities to be required to build. Instead, it wants to offer a carrot -- not a stick -- proposing a $500 million fund to offer incentives to those that meet the target.
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