The passage of four ballot proposals delivered a well-deserved slap to the New York’s City Council and will great help create more lower-cost housing at a time when at a time when Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s promised rent freezes threaten to erode existing housing.
One bright spot in Tuesday’s election was the passage of four ballot proposals to speed the creation of affordable housing — mainly by stripping the City Council of its power to block it.
It’s a well-deserved slap to the council, which is infamous for putting parochial concerns and special interests ahead of what’s good for the city as a whole.
This final gift from Mayor Eric Adams will help greatly in creating more lower-cost housing in the city, at a time when it’s desperately needed: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani should thank him publicly and profusely.
Proposal 2, which passed 58% to 42%, will fast-track the greenlighting of lower-rent housing that receives public financing or is meant for communities that see relatively little of it.
