New York City faces a critical housing crisis, with high rents and a lack of affordable options threatening to displace families. The author, a concerned resident, highlights the urgency of implementing practical housing solutions immediately rather than delaying for the future. Emphasizing the importance of families to the city’s vitality, the article outlines a housing plan focusing on building new affordable homes, reclaiming neglected properties, and ensuring public assets are safeguarded. Central to this plan is the Mitchell-Lama 2.0 initiative aimed at providing permanently affordable, family-sized housing on city-owned land.
We need to reverse the tide now-not in some imagined future-by building new affordable homes, reclaiming neglected properties, and defending our public assets from federal threats.
New York City is at a crossroads. Families-the lifeblood of our neighborhoods, the foundation of our economy, the future of our city-are being pushed out every day.
We can rebuild a city where working families can not only survive, but thrive. The challenges we face require more than pie-in-the-sky promises.
The foundation of my housing agenda is Mitchell-Lama 2.0, a proposal to create a new generation of permanently affordable, family-sized housing by unlocking our city-owned vacant land.
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