It's the Brian Larosho on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. Real treat coming up later

this hour. Patty Smith will join us ahead of a concert that she'll be giving in New

Jersey tomorrow. Patty Smith coming up in about a half hour. Right now Mayor Adams unveiled

a new housing plan that he says could pave the way for 100,000 new homes in New York

City over the next 15 years. The so-called City of Yes plan proposes a range of initiatives

including incentives for developers to add income restricted units to their projects,

policies allowing single-family homeowners to build a spare apartment in their backyard

and the elimination of parking requirements that currently make new apartment buildings

additionally expensive to construct. The proposed changes aim to address the decades

long housing shortage, soaring rents and the homelessness crisis in the city obviously

while the Adams administration calls out exclusionary zoning practices which it says hinders

new housing and locks out lower middle income New Yorkers. So there have been so many

housing proposals by so many mayors over the decades. Can this one be any different

and really move the needle in ways that others haven't? We're going to go over what the

mayor is proposing now with Vicki Bean, professor at NYU School of Law, faculty director

of NYU's Furman Center for real estate and urban policy. That's a housing policy think

tank. She was also the deputy mayor for housing and economic development under Mayor Bill

de Blasio. You may remember from 2019 to 2021. Hi Vicki, Professor Bean, welcome back

to WNYC. Thank you, Brian. Nice to be back. So where would you want to start in describing

what Mayor Adams proposed yesterday in ways that won't make our listeners eyes glaze over

as, oh, here we go again, all these words. Okay. Well, so I think look, I think there are

some really great things about the proposals and some significant things to be improved.

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