It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

Good morning again, everyone.

And now that he's winning the Democratic nomination for mayor,

let's take a fresh look at what New York City's housing policy

might look like under a Mayor, Mom Dani, who might oppose that agenda, whether in Albany,

the real estate world or City Hall. And what can we learn from two other high-profile

housing stories that have been playing out in recent weeks, the fight over Elizabeth Street Garden, which

we mentioned before the news. And I believe Mom Donnie was on the side of the senior housing on that

one, so we'll touch on that. And the city's latest controversial waterfront development plan

in Red Hook. Joining us is David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC and Gothamist. Hey, David, always glad

to have you with us. Hey, Brian. Thanks for having me. So if Zora Mabdani does become

mayor next year, one of his proposals is to dramatically expand publicly owned, publicly

financed housing on state-owned land. Whitney Tilson, candidate,

you know, sort of also ran, but a Cuomo supporter, went hard after Mom Donnie on this

during the campaign, saying that would cost the taxpayers of New York like $70 billion that

they can't afford.

So what would it take to implement what kind of public housing development plan,

as Momdani has described?

So Momdani's plan is to dramatically increase the amount of money the city spends to finance new affordable housing. And so his plan

is $100 billion to finance the creation of 200,000 new units of affordable, especially for

affordable to the lowest income New Yorkers over the next decade. He says in his housing plan,

in his remarks on the campaign trail, he wants to quadruple the amount of money the city is spending each year to finance that housing.

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