Vote Yes on Props 2, 3, 4, and 5 by Tuesday November 4th

✓ Prop 2 - Fast Tracks Affordable Housing: Creates a simpler and faster approval process for publicly funded affordable housing and speeds up affordable housing approvals in neighborhoods that haven't built enough affordable homes.

✓ Prop 3 - Simplifies Review of Modest Housing and Infrastructure Projects: This would exempt modest housing and climate resiliency projects — solar arrays, backyard accessory dwelling units (ADUs), and new buildings under 45 feet in height — from lengthy, costly, and unnecessary reviews.

✓ Prop 4 -Establishes a Land Use Appeals Board: Preserves local community voices and City Council authority in land use decisions while ensuring that broader housing needs can also be considered by a new appeals board that has the power to review Council decisions.

✓ Prop 5 - Modernizes the City Map: Replaces the 8,000 outdated paper maps with a unified digital system, reducing the long reviews for housing and infrastructure projects.

Every New Yorker knows we are in a housing crisis. Finding an affordable apartment is nearly impossible for the majority of us, let alone an apartment big enough to raise a family in. More than 50 percent of New York renters and approximately 45 percent of homeowners with mortgages are rent-or housing-burdened, meaning that they spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing costs alone. And we see the effects on our city’s streets with rising displacement and homelessness.

Working New Yorkers are being squeezed by skyrocketing housing costs, with no relief in sight. They’re leaving the neighborhoods they’ve called home and the schools their children go to, all because we cannot get more affordable housing built. There’s too much red tape. There are too many delays. And there are too many opportunities to say no. And that means there are too many kids in shelters, too many families overburdened by rent, and too many people forced to live on the streets. 

While New York City has built homes over the last several decades, it isn't enough -- and not every part of the city has done its fair share. If we want a future where our children can afford to live in New York City, we need to build more housing. We need to build more affordable housing. We need to fix our broken housing system.

We need to pass Proposals 2 through 5, which are a necessary and long-overdue fix that will help build tens of thousands of new affordable housing units and make historic progress to tackle the housing crisis.

This November, we can change how the system works.

We can stand up to the bureaucracy and the anti-housing minority.

We can make New York City more affordable for all of us. We can Vote Yes on Affordable Housing.

This effort includes a growing coalition of affordable housing advocates and civic leaders who strongly support passing the four measures:

  • Brad Lander

    New York City Comptroller

    “New York City has a housing crisis, and everybody knows it. Here’s something we can do together to make it better — so we should. By voting yes on Props 2 through 5, New Yorkers can cut down on red tape and get affordable housing built faster, so that future generations can afford to call this city home.”

  • Antonio Reynoso

    Brooklyn Borough President

    “Building new and affordable housing in this city is simply too slow, too arduous, and too complicated to meet the needs of our neighbors. Something has got to give, and it’s time for our city to get used to the idea of doing things differently. Ballot Proposals 2-5 offer practical steps toward speeding up the delivery of housing for New Yorkers and ensuring that every neighborhood contributes their fair share to the greater good. I am proud to support these measures and the steps they take toward solving citywide problems with citywide solutions.”

  • Mark LEVINE

    Manhattan Borough President

    “New York's housing crisis isn't a new problem. Both as a City Councilmember and as Manhattan Borough President, I've been on the frontlines of this fight, where I've helped reform outdated zoning laws, create thousands of new units of affordable housing, and identify sites for tens of thousands of additional units. However, it's clear that more needs to be done to finally address the root causes of this crisis and keep families in their homes and in their communities. I'll be voting Yes on Proposals 2-5 in November, and I'm encouraging my fellow New Yorkers to join me in voting Yes for Affordable Housing!” 

  • DONOVAN RICHARDS

    Queens Borough President

    “In this generational housing crisis facing our city, we must use every tool in the toolbox to create as many affordable homes for Queens families as quickly and efficiently as possible. Simply put, these ballot measures will help us do just that by cutting red tape and equitably boosting our affordable housing stock in every single community across this borough and this city. I look forward to working with all our partners in ensuring these measures pass in November.”

  • Abundance New York

  • Broadway Community

  • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens

  • Catholic Charities Progress of Peoples Development Corp

  • Chhaya Community Development Corporation

  • Citizens’ Housing and Planning Council

  • Curtis + Ginsberg Architects

  • Dattner Architects

  • Enterprise Community Partners

  • Fifth Avenue Committee

  • Fordham-Bedford Housing Corporation

  • Forsyth Street

  • GF55 Architects

  • Habitat for Humanity New York City and Westchester County

  • HANAC, Inc

  • HELP USA

  • Homeless Services United

  • Housing Rights Initiative

  • Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing

  • Jericho Project

  • LiveOn NY

  • Low Income Investment Fund

  • New Destiny Housing

  • New York Housing Conference

  • NYC Housing Partnership

  • NYC New Liberals

  • Open New York

  • People Restoring Communities

  • Regional Plan Association

  • Services for the Underserved

  • Settlement Housing Fund, Inc.

  • Supportive Housing Network of New York

  • The Bronx Neighborhood Housing Services CDC Inc

  • The Community Preservation Corporation

  • The Health & Housing Consortium

  • UAI

  • West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing

  • Youth Action Housing

Vote Yes on Props 2, 3, 4, and 5 by Tuesday November 4th

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