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So last week, New York City Council and the Adams administration struck a deal on the mayor's ambitious city of yes housing plan.

Maybe you miss this if, you know, your news tastes tend toward the national and you're focusing on all the Trump

nominees and everything. But city of yes, it's a big, big deal. The city and the state have injected

a surprise $5 billion of funding and the city council's key land use committee voted to approve it.

The plan is now headed to a full council vote on December 5th next Thursday,

and with us now to talk more about what exactly is in this plan and how it may impact your

neighborhood and housing across the city. I'm joined by David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC and

Gothamist. Hi, David. Hey, Brian. So a $5 billion deal was struck between the city and the

state. What's in the deal and what can New Yorkers expect in their neighborhoods? It's a great question.

And I like how you frame that as people might be paying more attention to national news and national

politics. And this is pretty much as local as it gets. And I think zoning,

we talk about that, it can seem so technical and so wonky. But really, it has a huge impact on

all of our lives. And I was just thinking about this, you know, if you walked around a more

suburban-style neighborhood like Whitestone, and you wonder how in the concrete jungle of New York

City, we can have

these kind of leafy streets with large lots and single family homes. Or you travel by bike

along Metropolitan Avenue between Ridgewood and Williamsburg, and it's so industrial, and there's

big trucks everywhere. And yet, these are areas that are so hot that people want to

live in. Why don't we build housing there instead of factories? Or you're in downtown Brooklyn.

And you're wondering, how are these huge skyscrapers here? It looks more like what we think of Manhattan.

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