Overview
- A charter commission convened by Mayor Eric Adams placed three housing questions on the November ballot.
- Proposals 2 and 3 would fast-track publicly financed affordable housing and small projects up to four stories, and ease certain climate resiliency upgrades.
- Proposal 4 would create an appeals board of the mayor, the City Council speaker and the relevant borough president to revisit blocked housing proposals.
- Supporters, including Comptroller Brad Lander and borough presidents Antonio Reynoso and Mark Levine, are campaigning with YIMBY groups and a PAC pledging $3 million, with new op-eds arguing the changes would speed construction and expand options for older New Yorkers.
- City Council leaders oppose the measures as a power grab that weakens community input, and they have mailed fliers warning of "more gentrification" and "less affordability."