"The campaign is over, the ballots counted, and now the hard part begins. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani ran on a promise to tackle New York City's affordability crisis, pledging to triple the pace of affordable housing construction, freeze rents, and make housing attainable again. Voters agreed: the ballot measures that passed made clear that New Yorkers see expanding the housing supply as the city's most urgent challenge."
"This is why Environmental Defense Fund, Regional Plan Association, the Association for Neighborhood Housing and Development, and Cornell University are taking a new approach that addresses these two deeply intertwined realities. New York cannot fix affordability while ignoring rising flood risk, and it cannot build resilient infrastructure that prices people out. With a new administration preparing to take office, this is the moment for a truly holistic approach that brings housing, safety, and long-term community stability under the same umbrella."
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani campaigned to triple affordable housing construction, freeze rents, and restore housing attainability, earning voter support through ballot measures that prioritized expanding supply. Recent floods that killed residents and destroyed homes demonstrate that resilience must be included in housing solutions. Environmental Defense Fund, Regional Plan Association, Association for Neighborhood Housing and Development, and Cornell University advocate an integrated approach that links affordability and flood risk. New York cannot solve housing without addressing rising flood threats, nor build resilient infrastructure that displaces people. The incoming administration has an opportunity to adopt holistic policies that combine housing, safety, and long-term community stability.
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