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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.