Exactly one year after the passage of its hard-fought City of Yes revamp of the city’s land use rules, the Adams administration is taking a victory lap, trumpeting the 130,000 housing units that could potentially be built because of those changes and five major neighborhood rezonings it enacted in its four years in office.

But whether all that new housing gets built will depend on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and whether — and how — he fulfills the pledge he made earlier this week to build on the City of Yes, not “discard it.”

“City of Yes and the neighborhood rezonings are big accomplishments,” said Howard Slatkin, formerly a top official at the Department of City Planning who now runs the nonprofit Citizens Housing and Planning Council. “But that doesn’t mean it’s ‘mission accomplished.’

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