Building More Affordable Housing

In addition to our commitment and support of measures to preserve the existing affordable housing stock, we believe that the creation of affordable units is essential to solving the housing crisis. While  new “luxury apartments” are going up in almost every neighborhood in the city, not nearly enough quality affordable housing units are being built. 

Instead, low-income New Yorkers are being forced to put up with apartments that have serious health violations like lead, pests, mold, and leaks - apartments that are neither safe nor secure. These kinds of unlivable conditions erode the stability and economic vitality of our families and neighborhoods.

New York City is in a state of permanent housing shortage. Only massive construction of permanently affordable housing can address this longstanding crisis - a crisis which leads to homelessness, overcrowding and neighborhood destabilization. Campaigns to increase the supply of new affordable housing have focused on mandatory inclusionary zoning and reform of the tax abatement system (421a).

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