Brian Laird on WNYC, we here at WNYC are lucky to have arguably the single best housing

reporter in the city on our staff these days, David Brand, who joined last year.

Some of his recent stories on the radio and on our local news website, Gothamist,

include Landlord Drops Challenge to Rent Stabilization at Manhattan's biggest department complex,

that's Styrtown, Peter Cooper Village.

Midtown leaders call for housing,

not tennis courts on site of stalled Penn 15 skyscraper. That's the one being built or considered

around Penn Station. Scotus, the Supreme Court of the United States, rejects challenges to New York's

rent stabilization rules.

And looking for an affordable two-bedroom apartment for a family, the odds are against you.

We'll touch on a few of these, but concentrate mostly on that last one about affordable housing

for families right now. It turns out about 70% of the new apartments that the city is creating under Mayor

Adams for the housing lottery system are studios or one bedrooms, and many of those are in

neighborhoods where many families with children live. That despite the mayor saying this,

when he announced his housing policy in 2022.

We have a hemorrhaging of black and brown families leaving New York because it's no longer affordable.

We've decimated the middle class and we need to refocus our attention on stabilizing these families.

David Brand joins us now. Hi, David. Welcome back to the show.

Hey, Brian. Thank you. And thank you for that very kind introduction. You're very, very welcome and

well deserved. And you use that Eric Adams quote at the beginning of this article. Why that one?

Well, we did an analysis of city data on Mayor Adams Housing Program. So we looked at the roughly 24,000 units that have been

built or financed since Adams took office in the start of 2022. Some of these were, many of them

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