New York City rents are at a record-high and rising. Ditto home sale prices. About 90,000 people are spending each night in a city homeless shelter. And the number of vacant apartments across the five boroughs is stuck at a six-decade low .

So how do you solve a housing crisis like New York City’s? Late last year, Mayor Eric Adams commissioned a committee to find updates to the city charter that can streamline the city’s land use review process and speed up development.

It came up with four proposals: Two would eliminate steps from the current procedure and a third would create a mechanism for appealing rejections or modifications. All come with some controversy because they would erode the power of the City Council, which some see as an impediment to building.

A fourth would digitize

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