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GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Affordable, safe housing allows tenants to set down roots, which strengthens communities and local economies. But there are too few units for New Yorkers and too many restrictions on building the types of housing New Yorkers need now. In fact, so many of the City’s problems - from budget cuts to libraries to our inability to honor our promises to City retirees - are a result of our refusal to build adequate amounts of housing. What can we do?

• Chart a new vision for building processes with growth and safety at the forefront. We need to build more.

• Strengthen protections that keep tenants in their homes.

• Enforce the code to preserve housing for tenants in place.

Housing for All

• Incentivize the housing that families need to stay in the city - especially units with two, three, and four-bedrooms. We do not need to lose young families to the suburbs and the Sunbelt. 

• Enact mandatory upzoning around rail stations and job centers, so housing growth happens where it makes the most sense.

• Process delays are often the biggest driver of increased housing costs. We will make it easier and faster to build affordable housing by reforming SEQRA, CEQR and other time-consuming reviews.

• Tenants should never be at the whim of developers. If their building has been sold, they should be guaranteed a place in the new property at the same size and rent. Housing security will make the city safer and more prosperous.

• Legalize Accessory Dwelling Units and allow as-of-right multifamily development.