It's the Brian Mayoro on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

So in New York every year, there are two big deadlines

for the state legislature to pass major bills.

We're in the home stretch now for the first one, the beginning of the new fiscal year. pass major The approaching budget deadline has a few major unresolved controversies.

One is the perennial issue of affordable housing.

Governor Hockel's big housing construction push failed last year, as many of you know,

due to suburban opposition to building more affordable housing

in many areas just outside the city.

The governor and legislature are trying again this year in different ways.

And there are other issues too as more federal

COVID era money expires. Mayoral control of New York City public schools is up

for renewal the state grants the mayor that authority if you didn't know, and there's a lot of debate about it this year.

And with me now is New York State Senator Hulius Alizar of Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Bushwick, and elsewhere around and between there,

one of the progressives pushing for a so-called good cause eviction bill, among other things.

Salazar recently released a report with a community service society advocacy group

for low-income New Yorkers that found more than half of market rate tenants faced hikes

last year because the state did not pass good cause.

We'll talk about that and more.

Senator Salazar always good to have you.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you as always for having me Brian.

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