Brian Lear on WNYC. We'll talk in just a minute to Maria Torres Springer,

Deputy Mayor of New York City for Housing, Economic Development, and Workforce.

Just back, as I understand it, from a breakfast event where she presented a major new rezoning

reform proposal from the Adams administration to enable a lot more affordable housing

to be built all over New York City.

This will affect many neighborhoods, so get ready to listen up.

And many of you know by now the two point law of affordable housing politics

that we've talked about a lot on the show.

1, everyone wants a lot more affordable housing.

Point 2, just don't build any near me.

So before we bring on the deputy mayor, here's Mayor Adams on what he wants from City Council and Albany this year.

So this year, we're clear on what we want. We need housing. We have to build more and if we don't build more the mayor

didn't fail we failed the people of the city because people of the city all agree

we need to build more housing.

And at least on paper he and Governor Hockel agree.

I know it's a good start, but it's not enough to fix our affordability crisis.

So let's be honest with New Yorkers.

The only thing that will solve this problem is building hundreds and hundreds of thousands of homes.

Governor Hockel from her state of the state in January and it's hard enough just to build in the city

then you bring the suburbs into it and you get things like this from Nassau County Executive Bruce

Blakeman who was on this show on the topic last year.

I think we just have to be smart in the way that we develop those communities and realize that whatever we do we can't kill the suburban character of Nassau County.

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