Mayor Eric Adams.
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Since day one in every of our administration, constructing housing and bringing down the price of dwelling has been two of our high priorities. We all know that to be able to make New York Metropolis the most effective place on the globe to boost a household, we’d like 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 have now gone to work to ship housing for New Yorkers on daily basis, in all places. And final week, we introduced back-to-back record-breaking calendar years producing critically wanted reasonably priced housing throughout the town. We now have once more constructed essentially the most homeless items and most supportive items. We additionally housed our older adults by constructing a file variety of senior items.
We now have additionally linked a file variety of New Yorkers to that housing, with HPD connecting extra New Yorkers to properties than ever earlier than in 2024. And due to our workforce at NYCHA, we have now 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 a wide range 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 steady and protected residence with a assist community, and households feeling like they will afford to stay 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 possibility. With the intention to meet our reasonably priced housing disaster, head on, we should proceed to be daring and impressive.
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 may create 100,000 new properties within the borough, bringing the overall variety of properties in Manhattan to 1 million over the subsequent decade.
We’re additionally constructing on our “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” plan, essentially the most pro-housing proposal in our metropolis historical past that may make investments billions and construct 80,000 new properties 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” strategy. Which means constructing housing on each block, in each neighborhood, and in each borough. We aren’t simply breaking data in the case 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.
Day by day 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 most effective place to boost a household and a spot the place all New Yorkers can construct their American Desires.
