He’s inheriting a solid foundation for housing — if he builds with it.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is poised to reap the benefits of housing-related ballot measures approved by voters on Election Day — but the socialist pol has given few concrete signs about whether he’ll actually use them.
The proposals crafted at outgoing Mayor Eric Adams’ behest — and over the objections of angry City Council members — aim to turbocharge the Big Apple’s notoriously slow process for approving new housing by offering up more power to the mayor’s office.
“You need an ambitious mayor who uses it because if you just sit back, then the measures don’t facilitate ambitious regulatory reform,” said Alex Armlovich, senior housing policy analyst at Niskanen Center.
“But you have to actually use them.”
Mamdani,

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