Seven Republican state senators say Gov. Kathy Hochul has imperial-like ambitions to transform Long Island through a state budget proposal to expand housing statewide to ease ongoing shortages in t…
to ease ongoing shortages in the New York City area.
GOP legislators are throwing down the gauntlet following the release of Hochul’s proposed budget earlier this week detailing her vision to spur the construction of 800,000 housing units over the next decade. “If we wanted to live in different conditions, people would live in Queens versus Nassau County, but now we’re changing the character of the communities that are on Long Island,” she told The Post.
“The water systems for those areas, the sewer systems for those areas were designed to accommodate single-family homes, the entire systems would have to be upgraded to take on additional, the kind of additional density that the governor is proposing,” state Sen. Jack Martins said while arguing how villages like Mineola, where he previously served as mayor, might need “tens of millions of dollars” alone.
Some Long Islanders also say that Republicans are attacking the plan without honestly evaluating its merits at a time when Nassau and Suffolk counties face housing shortages and growing challenges with homelessness. State Sen. Dean Murray is one of seven GOP state senators who say Hochul is proposing a bad plan for boosting housing in the areaAnd Republican legislators appeared eager Friday to exploit the issue as elected leaders in Democrat-dominated Albany get ready for state budget negotiations ahead of an April 1 deadline.
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