Mayor de Blasio unveils plan to increase affordable housing in New York City
Will help keep middle-class jobs in city
Mayor Bill de Blasio in Fort Greene on Monday laid out a 10-year plan to build or preserve 200,000 affordable apartments across all five boroughs. The apartments would provide enough housing to serve more than a half-million residents, and prevent lower- and middle-class workers from being priced from their neighborhoods.
The Mayor called his $41 billion Housing New York plan “the most expansive and ambitious affordable housing agenda of its kind in the nation’s history.”
De Blasio said the plan would benefit families ranging from very low incomes (under $25,150 for a family of four) to those in the middle class.