{"id":646762,"date":"2026-03-11T00:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/646762\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T00:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:32:18","slug":"city-council-advances-bronx-lawmakers-bill-cementing-city-of-yes-legalization-of-basement-apartments-tiny-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/646762\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council advances Bronx lawmaker\u2019s bill cementing City of Yes legalization of basement apartments, tiny houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A City Council panel advanced on Tuesday legislation that makes official the legalization of ancillary dwelling units (ADUs), such as \u201ctiny houses\u201d and basement units, for addition to new or existing homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Committee on Housing and Buildings, chaired by Bronx Council Member Pierina Sanchez, voted unanimously on March 9 to approve <a href=\"https:\/\/legistar.council.nyc.gov\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7862816&amp;GUID=1AB348BC-361C-490F-8F7B-0CC1157156EC&amp;Options=&amp;Search=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Intro 421-A<\/a> as a technicality required to align with the rezoning package collectively known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/mayor-adams-signs-city-of-yes-housing-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">City of Yes for Housing Opportunity<\/a>, which passed in December 2024. Intro 421-A was introduced to the full council on March 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/city-council-advances-bronx-basement-apartments-bill\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Bronx Times &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tCity Council advances Bronx lawmaker\u2019s bill cementing City of Yes legalization of basement apartments, tiny houses &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A City Council panel advanced on Tuesday legislation that makes official the legalization of ancillary dwelling units&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":636615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[29867,5229,274770,63584,154181,15522,6308,249683,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-646762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-adus","tag-america","tag-ancillary-dwelling-units","tag-city-of-yes","tag-council-member-pierina-sanchez","tag-housing-crisis","tag-housing-shortage","tag-hurricane-ida","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116207730544843218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646762","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=646762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}