Mayor Eric Adams.
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Since day one among our administration, constructing housing and bringing down the price of dwelling has been two of our high priorities. We all know that as a way to make New York Metropolis the very best place on the globe to lift a household, we want reasonably priced housing throughout the 5 boroughs. We have to construct the housing working folks, households, immigrants, and younger folks want.
For the previous three years we’ve got gone to work to ship housing for New Yorkers each day, all over the place. And final week, we introduced back-to-back record-breaking calendar years producing critically wanted reasonably priced housing throughout town. Now we have once more constructed probably the most homeless items and most supportive items. We additionally housed our older adults by constructing a file variety of senior items.
Now we have additionally linked a file variety of New Yorkers to that housing, with HPD connecting extra New Yorkers to houses than ever earlier than in 2024. And due to our group at NYCHA, we’ve got delivered greater than $1.7 billion in critically wanted capital repairs to our public housing websites. The New York Metropolis Division of Social Companies additionally linked a file variety of New Yorkers in shelter to sponsored everlasting housing. Moreover, greater than 14,600 households moved out of shelter utilizing quite a lot of rental subsidies, reflecting a 24 % improve year-over-year.
However these data are extra than simply numbers — they’re older adults getting linked to accessible and reasonably priced housing, previously homeless New Yorkers being handed a key to a secure and secure condo with a help community, and households feeling like they will afford to dwell within the best metropolis on the globe.
A house is extra than simply 4 partitions and a roof, it’s the key to unlocking the American Dream. It’s a path in direction of stability and a chance. With the intention to meet our reasonably priced housing disaster, head on, we should proceed to be daring and bold.
That’s the reason in my State of the Metropolis tackle final month, we laid out a daring imaginative and prescient for our “Manhattan Plan” that can create 100,000 new houses within the borough, bringing the full variety of houses in Manhattan to 1 million over the subsequent decade.
We’re additionally constructing on our “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” plan, probably the most pro-housing proposal in our metropolis historical past that can make investments billions and construct 80,000 new houses over the subsequent 15 years. With “City of Yes for Families,” we’ll assist us construct much more housing that meets the wants of households, together with co-located housing with libraries and housing that’s nearer to public transportation.
We’re constructing with a “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once” method. Which means constructing housing on each block, in each neighborhood, and in each borough. We aren’t simply breaking data on the subject of housing. Final month, we introduced, for the eighth time since we entered workplace, that we broke the all-time excessive jobs file in our metropolis. However I do know the hustle on this metropolis is actual and that too many households are nonetheless struggling.
On daily basis we’re combating to present New Yorkers a key to their future. Collectively, we’re going to construct extra reasonably priced housing so New York stays the very best place to lift a household and a spot the place all New Yorkers can construct their American Goals.
