{"id":266635,"date":"2025-09-30T13:48:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/266635\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:48:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:48:30","slug":"op-ed-seasons-change-but-priority-of-building-record-amounts-of-housing-to-make-nyc-affordable-stays-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/266635\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-ed | Seasons change, but priority of building record amounts of housing to make NYC affordable stays the same"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mayor Eric Adams<\/p>\n

Ed Reed\/Mayoral Photography Office<\/p>\n

This autumn, the leaves aren\u2019t the only things that are falling. The Adams administration<\/a> has brought down the cost of child care, cut taxes for working-class families, and lowered unemployment for New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

Last week, we launched our \u2018Affordable Autumn\u2019 initiative to highlight our work in saving New Yorkers money and introducing new initiatives to make New York City more affordable \u2014 which begins with building the homes New Yorkers need and deserve.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re advancing bold, ambitious solutions to our city\u2019s housing crisis. Last Monday, New York took a massive step towards an affordable future for our residents when the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Task Force approved a $3.5 billion vision plan<\/a> for the future of Red Hook.<\/p>\n

Not only will this project deliver 6,000 housing units on the waterfront \u2014 with 2,400 of them being permanently affordable \u2014 but it will turn a crumbling marine terminal into a modern maritime port while creating tens of thousands of good-paying jobs. This initiative isn\u2019t just for the New Yorkers of today \u2014 we\u2019re turning our waterfront into a \u2018Harbor of the Future\u2019 and unlocking opportunity for generations to come.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re also thinking creatively about how to utilize every available space for the housing New Yorkers need, in Brooklyn and throughout the entire city. Where past administrations saw vacant lots and old office buildings, ours saw an opportunity for housing equality. Last year, we issued Executive Order 43, requiring every city agency to review its properties and identify areas where new housing could be built \u2014 because you can\u2019t solve a housing crisis when city government is holding onto underutilized land.<\/p>\n

Now that it has been a little over a year, we are ready to report the results of our work. Thanks to our executive order, we have already advanced nearly 10,000 homes across 11 different city-owned sites. At just one site in Queens,<\/a> we\u2019re turning the abandoned Flushing Airport into 3,000 new homes and 60 acres of open space.<\/p>\n

At another site in Manhattan, just steps from City Hall, we\u2019re tearing down a deteriorating city office building and turning it into over 1,000 new homes. And in the Bronx, we\u2019re building a whole new library at the Grand Concourse and adding homes alongside it.<\/p>\n

Just last week, we added three new sites to that growing list. In Bensonhurst, we are redeveloping the New Utrecht Library \u2014 creating a new, state-of-the-art branch and adding 100% affordable housing on the adjacent city-owned parking lot. In Williamsburg, we\u2019re turning one of the area\u2019s last underutilized waterfront sites into 900 new homes with vibrant open space along the river. And in East Harlem, we\u2019re turning a city-owned parking lot next to a public hospital into 800 new homes.<\/p>\n

When you put all of our work together \u2014 the homes we\u2019ve created, preserved, and planned \u2014 it adds up to over 426,800 homes to date. That\u2019s almost half a million families who will have a place to build their lives, to make memories, to plant roots in a community \u2014 and it is the Adams administration who are fighting for them.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve said this before, but I\u2019ll say it again: we are the most pro-housing administration in city history. Not just because we invested record amounts of money into new housing or because we created a record number of new homes \u2014 although we are doing both of those things; not just because we connected a record number of New Yorkers to affordable housing or passed the most pro-housing zoning proposal in city history \u2014 although we accomplished both.<\/p>\n

But because no one has fought harder and built more for the people of our city than we have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Eric Adams Ed Reed\/Mayoral Photography Office This autumn, the leaves aren\u2019t the only things that are falling.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":266636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[139019,852,5229,139020,53384,56969,5289,139021,139022,139023,39856,139024,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,139025,67,586,132,5230,53388,68,2969,139026],"class_list":{"0":"post-266635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-affordable-autumn-initiative","9":"tag-affordable-housing","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-brooklyn-marine-terminal","12":"tag-city-planning","13":"tag-community-investment","14":"tag-eric-adams","15":"tag-future-of-new-york","16":"tag-housing-crisis-solutions","17":"tag-housing-equality","18":"tag-job-creation","19":"tag-libraries-and-housing","20":"tag-new-york","21":"tag-new-york-city","22":"tag-newyork","23":"tag-newyorkcity","24":"tag-ny","25":"tag-nyc","26":"tag-red-hook-development","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-united-states-of-america","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","31":"tag-urban-development","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-usa","34":"tag-waterfront-redevelopment"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}