Brooklyn state Sen. Zellnor Myrie centers 2025 NYC mayoral campaign on plan for 1M new homes
Brooklyn state Sen. Zellnor Myrie, one of several Democrats challenging Eric Adams in next year’s mayoral election, rolled out a policy blueprint Tuesday to build and preserve 1 million homes in the city over the next decade — pushing past an already ambitious production goal set by Adams.
Myrie’s plan, dubbed “Rebuild NYC,” proposes achieving the 1 million target by 2036 via nine initiatives that would require input from a variety of stakeholders, including the City Council. Of the 1 million, 700,000 would be brand-new units, while the remaining 300,000 would be already existing homes that would be preserved thanks to programs laid out in the plan.
One of the most ambitious planks in Myrie’s blueprint would establish new neighborhoods on “underutilized land” across the city, an effort the plan estimates would create 85,000 new homes over a decade. Another proposal is to create 85,000 new mixed-income apartments in Midtown Manhattan over the same span by enacting zoning changes to increase the density allowed on sites currently accommodating residential towers.
A third proposal would redirect city funding currently being used to build shelters and instead pump it into constructing 50,000 new homes.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/03/brooklyn-state-sen-zellnor-myrie-centers-2025-nyc-mayoral-campaign-on-plan-for-1m-new-homes/