Mayor Adams Outlines "Housing Our Neighbors" Plan to Get New Yorkers into Safe, Affordable Homes
Channel: NYC Mayor's Office
Date: 2022-06-14

MAYOR ADAMS OUTLINES BLUEPRINT FOR ‘HOUSING OUR NEIGHBORS,’ PLAN TO GET NEW YORKERS INTO SAFE, HIGH-QUALITY, AFFORDABLE HOMES

Crafted With Insight From New Yorkers Who Experienced Homelessness, Blueprint Focuses Not Just on Creating Homes but Also on Getting New Yorkers Into Them More Quickly

First City Housing Plan to Cover Entire Spectrum of New Yorkers’ Housing Needs and Options — Including City-Subsidized Affordable Housing, Public Housing, Private Market-Rate Housing, and Greater Supports for Homelessness

Blueprint Outlines Bold Plans to Accelerate Creation of Supportive Housing, Transform How Services Are Delivered at NYCHA, and End Practices that Retraumatize Families

NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today released ‘Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness,’ his comprehensive blueprint to tackle New York City’s affordable housing crisis and get New Yorkers in the safe, high-quality, affordable homes they deserve. Crafted in direct collaboration and coordination with New Yorkers who have experienced homelessness, Mayor Adams’ plan represents the first city housing plan to build on the creation and preservation of affordable housing with transformative reforms for the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) as well as the elimination of paperwork and processes that retraumatize New Yorkers and families as they find a home they can afford.

The blueprint is the result of an extensive stakeholder, industry, and community engagement process, which, for the first time, included direct engagement with New Yorkers who are experiencing or having experienced homelessness, and outlines major steps the Adams administration will take to:

• Significantly expand affordable homeownership opportunities and help communities build and maintain wealth;
• Accelerate the creation of supportive housing by completing the 15,000 supportive homes promised by 2030 two years ahead of schedule;
• Transform NYCHA by both delivering much-needed resources for repairs and improving and streamlining the services NYCHA provides residents and the processes by which they do so;
• Break down government siloes to bolster transparency and address the full scope of the homelessness crisis, adding to the city’s homeless count while creating a more even playing field to give more New Yorkers in all the city’s shelter systems access to critical services and resources; and
• Get New Yorkers into safe, high-quality, affordable homes faster and without forcing them to relive past trauma by eliminating unnecessary paperwork and obstacles to obtaining housing.

The blueprint rests on five key pillars:

• Transforming NYCHA,
• Addressing Homelessness and Housing Instability,
• Creating and Preserving Affordable Housing,
• Improving the Health and Safety of New Yorkers, and
• Reducing Administrative Burden.


Transforming NYCHA

With NYCHA developments in need of comprehensive repair work estimated to cost $40 billion, this plan goes beyond the work NYCHA has undertaken in recent years, as mandated in its federal agreement. Mayor Adams’ blueprint specifically provides short-term quality-of-life improvements, long-term stabilization of the authority through the NYCHA Public Housing Preservation Trust and the Rental Assistance Demonstration-Permanent Affordability Commitment Together program, and centers NYCHA residents in decision-making processes.

Addressing Homelessness and Housing Instability

New Yorkers experiencing homelessness deserve both immediate changes that improve the care they receive right now and a viable path to long-term affordable or supportive housing. At the same time, we cannot wait until a New Yorker is living on the street to provide support — we must act to prevent evictions and keep New Yorkers in their homes. 

Creating and Preserving Affordable Housing

Mayor Adams’ total $22 billion capital commitment represents the largest city investment in housing in New York City’s history, allowing the city to accelerate the creation of supportive housing and continue the current pace of affordable housing production, despite rising inflation and interest rates.

Improving the Health and Safety of New Yorkers

All New Yorkers deserve the dignity that comes with a home that is not only affordable but also safe and healthy. Recognizing the connection between housing conditions, climate risk, and health outcomes, the Adams administration is committed to safe, high-quality, affordable housing.

Under this blueprint, the administration will:
• Improve housing quality to ensure safe and healthy living conditions,
• Keep New Yorkers safe in their homes in a changing climate, and
• Create more sustainable and healthy homes.

Brooklyn
June 14, 2022