What Happened This Week in NYC Housing? Aug. 1, 2025

Each Friday City Limits rounds up the latest news on housing land use and homelessness Catch up on what you might have missed here The Mayor s Office announcing the city s majority of current housing production numbers at a press conference Friday Ed Reed Mayoral Photography Office Welcome to What Happened This Week in NYC Housing where we compile the latest local news about housing land use and homelessness Know of a story we should include in next Friday s roundup Email us Mayor Eric Adams declared this week housing week kicking it off with a brief video tour of Gracie Mansion On Monday he publicized a plan to create units of workforce housing at the former Flushing Airport site in College Point Queens On Wednesday he communicated an initiative to transformation the city s Senior Affordable Rental Apartments SARA operation to include more family-sized apartments In neighborhoods with scant deeply affordable homes new SARA projects must include percent two-bedrooms units the new rules disclosed for the purposes of accommodating multigenerational households function d u ac var s d createElement 'script' s type 'text javascript' s src 'https a omappapi com app js api min js' s async true s dataset user u s dataset campaign ac d getElementsByTagName 'head' appendChild s document 'u kmqsczew vunxutxmd' Housing week concluded Friday with a press conference where the mayor and the Department of Housing Preservation and Expansion HPD broadcasted that the city built or preserved units of housing in the past months It was an percent increase over the previous year and included new affordable units Representatives mentioned that brought the total number of units created under the Adams administration to Since taking office functionaries disclosed they preserved another units of housing including more than rehabbed NYCHA apartments They planned an additional units by unlocking new advancement through zoning actions like City of Yes and neighborhood plans which made up around two-thirds of the total Mayor Adams office claiming to be the the greater part pro-housing administration in city history revealed they would outpace both the de Blasio and Bloomberg administrations when it comes to building new housing through zoning actions The total built preserved and planned the administration says is near the mayor s moonshot goal of by But not all the units planned may break ground and specific still have to go through the city s land use review process which could cut the number Separately Adams promised to double the number of homes in the city s affordable housing lotteries that are set aside for city workers from percent to percent and make veterans eligible for those units More housing news ICYMI from City Limits The first hotel-to-housing project using a state incentive to boost such conversions will open soon in Queens with affordable apartments at the former Hilton Hotel near JFK apartment New York State is advancing its plan to phase in all-electric buildings in new construction and get rid of fossil fuel-based gas stoves and other equipment Fewer asylum seekers are being subjected to - and -day homeless shelter deadlines as the number of new arrivals to the city declines ICYMI from other local newsrooms The MTA is evicting people from their East Harlem apartments to make way for construction of the next Second Avenue subway expansion Gothamist reports Mayor Adams vetoed the City Council s rejection of Bally s bid to open a casino at Ferry Point in the Bronx according to The City A closer look at the thousands of New Yorkers living in overcrowded apartments via the New York Times I wasn t in charge of building affordable housing in New York former Gov Andrew Cuomo explained of the decade he spent as New York State governor via WNYC s The Brian Lehrer Show The post What Happened This Week in NYC Housing Aug appeared first on City Limits