New York City on Thursday unveiled a new interactive tool that allows residents to track the city’s pipeline of affordable housing projects planned for publicly owned land.
The Land Inventory Fast Track, or LIFT, Tracker highlights over 100 city-owned sites across the five boroughs where the Mamdani administration says more than 50,000 new homes will be built.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the map is intended to give New Yorkers a way to monitor the city’s progress on the projects while increasing transparency.
“Too many New Yorkers are being priced out of their homes. We have a responsibility to use every tool we have to build the affordable housing our city needs,” Mamdani said in a statement. “The LIFT tracker brings transparency to that work and makes clear that City-owned land is not sitting idle — it is becoming homes, libraries and community space across the five boroughs.”
He pledged to continue issuing requests for proposals for at least five city-owned housing sites each year as mayor as part of his “Block by Block” housing plan, which aims to build 200,000 affordable homes and preserve another 200,000 over the next decade.
Since taking office, Mamdani has launched several initiatives intended to speed up affordable housing development on public land, including the Land Inventory Fast Track Task Force and a streamlined land use review process, according to his office.
The administration said the recently adopted city budget includes $22 billion for affordable housing over the next five years, including close to $5 billion in capital funding for new affordable housing within the next two years.