Besides electing a new mayor, New Yorkers will also have to vote on several measures that could change how city government approves new housing.<\/p>\n
While mayoral candidates Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa are making it clear this week that they\u2019re on opposite sides of the issue, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has yet to say how he will vote on the divisive referendums.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n One would fast-track applications in neighborhoods that typically don\u2019t produce a lot of affordable housing, while the second would simplify the review period of modest amounts of additional housing and another would create a new affordable housing appeals board to review city council actions.<\/p>\n It\u2019s being pushed by Mayor Eric Adams, but opposed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers \u2014 like City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams \u2014 who argue the changes would weaken the City Council\u2019s legislative check on the mayor, silence public input and largely benefit wealthy developers at the expense of neighborhoods outside Manhattan.<\/p>\n Supporters like Andrew Cuomo say those proposals would help shave bureaucracy that\u2019s stymied housing construction.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s hard for the political process to do something where there is opposition. That\u2019s why you can\u2019t allow one council person a veto on a project,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Past projects have died thanks to opposition from individual members, like a blood bank on the Upper East Side, and the Bally\u2019s casino project in the Bronx was first rejected by the council after GOP Councilmember Kristie Marmarato said she wasn\u2019t on board.<\/p>\n Mayor Adams then overrode the veto, and the plan was approved.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I only did projects that every assemblyman and senator signed off on, I would\u2019ve done nothing,\u201d Cuomo said.<\/p>\n Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa thinks voters should reject what he describes as a giveaway from Adams to wealthy developers who have no interest in preserving communities.<\/p>\n \u201cEric Adams in 2025 tried to take all the power back to City Hall. So what do these charter revision questions, as they\u2019re called 1,2, 3 and 4 mean? It means zoning, forget about it,\u201d Sliwa said. But frontrunner Zohran Mamdani stalled when asked where he stands.<\/p>\n \u201cThis will be a decision that New Yorkers will take and I am having active meetings with a number of stakeholders to better assess what the impacts and implications this will portend for housing supply and housing construction,\u201d he said during an unrelated press conference in Midtown.<\/p>\n Mamdani\u2019s campaign promises to make the city more affordable go hand-in-hand with making housing cheaper and building more.<\/p>\n He will likely have to rely on millionaires and wealthy developers to deliver his goals \u2014 groups he\u2019s been critical of that stand to benefit from these ballot proposals.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll share my opinion on those proposals after having those conversations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Besides electing a new mayor, New Yorkers will also have to vote on several measures that could change…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[13564,5229,23600,13565,7448,43432,9643,7065,8629,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-267796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-2025-nyc-mayors-race","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-app-housing","11":"tag-app-local-state-politics","12":"tag-app-top-stories","13":"tag-bernadette-hogan","14":"tag-decision-2025","15":"tag-housing","16":"tag-local-politics","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-newyork","21":"tag-newyorkcity","22":"tag-ny","23":"tag-nyc","24":"tag-politics","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-united-states-of-america","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-usa","32":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115296031456268552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267796","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=267796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no zoning anymore. You\u2019re a developer? You\u2019re a realtor? The price is right, let\u2019s face it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n