NYHC Testifies at Queens Borough President City of Yes Hearing

NYHC Director of Policy and Operations Brendan Cheney testified at the Queens Borough President’s public hearing on the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity, sharing the need for more housing to address our housing crisis and history of housing discrimination.

Our NYC Housing Tracker data shows that housing production is not shared equitably across the city. The top 10 Council districts that produced the most affordable housing financed more than 3,500 units each over ten years while the bottom 10 districts financed just 200 units or fewer each. This disparity is particularly stark in Queens: five of the ten Council districts that produced the least new affordable housing were in Queens.

Without the changes City of Yes, certain neighborhoods will continue to opt out of adding housing. Read the full testimony here.