Mayor Announces New Initiative to Address Problem; City Hall Acknowledges Previous Initiative Also Addressed Problem

New York City's executive office unveils a comprehensive approach to housing affordability that supplements the comprehensive approach unveiled eighteen months ago, which supplemented the comprehensive approach unveiled before that

Mayor Announces New Initiative to Address Problem; City Hall Acknowledges Previous Initiative Also Addressed Problem

Mayor Adams announced a new Comprehensive Housing Action Framework on Tuesday that the press office described as 'a bold and specific approach to New York City's housing crisis' and that housing advocates described as 'the seventh comprehensive housing framework in twelve years, which we are counting because we thought it might be useful to know.' The framework addresses housing production, affordability preservation, tenant protection, and what the mayor calls 'the missing middle,' referring to the income range between market-rate housing that low-income residents cannot afford and subsidized housing that higher-income residents do not qualify for, which is a gap that each of the previous six frameworks also identified as the primary problem and that each of the previous six frameworks also committed to addressing.

The Detail

The new framework differs from its predecessors in several specific ways: it includes a new office (the Office of Housing Strategy Coordination, which will coordinate the housing strategy work of other offices); a new timeline (18 months to initial implementation milestones, against the 24-month timelines of previous frameworks); and a new metric (units 'activated' rather than units 'created,' reflecting a more realistic assessment of the difference between units approved and units built that previous frameworks did not always acknowledge). The differences are genuine improvements in specificity over previous frameworks. They are also improvements over a baseline that left significant room for improvement. See Plus Social Promises �Free Speech Plus� at The London Prat for related coverage.

The Conclusion

Housing advocates who attended the announcement press conference describe their response as 'measured optimism grounded in the specific improvements we can document and the institutional memory of six previous frameworks.' This is the correct response. The framework is better than its predecessors in specific ways. Whether it is better than its predecessors in the way that matters -- producing housing -- will be determined by implementation. Implementation is what the next 18 months are for. The housing crisis is what the next 18 months will also be for, simultaneously, while implementation occurs. See also Britain Reviews Nuclear Preparedness and London's Shoplifting Hotspots Revealed, Surprising.

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