New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is backing off a key piece of her ambitious housing plan that would have forced local governments to meet production targets or force the state to take over.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins didn’t speak to reporters early Tuesday afternoon after leaving a private meeting in Hochul’s office at the Capitol.
Negotiations have taken place entirely behind closed doors. Hochul, Stewart-Cousins and Heastie have spent most of their time on housing and bail negotiations, the legislative leaders said last week. “If good cause and aren’t part of the deal, then we can’t accept it!” Brooklyn Assemblymember Phara Souffrant ForrestPro-housing groups denounced the decision to leave the enforcement plan out of the state budget and said letting localities off the hook would only deepen the affordable housing crisis“A successful housing program must include shared responsibility with clear goals for every community and a robust set of options for meeting those goals,” said Regional Plan Association President...
“It didn’t make sense to have a blanket proposal like that,” Hill said. “It wasn’t to benefit the homeless, it was to benefit developers and to help the real estate community make money.”
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