Long Island elected officials expressed concerns Wednesday over Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to add more than 800,000 affordable housing units statewide in the next decade. She will do this in part by setting local targets and fast-tracking projects in areas that don’t meet them in the next three years.
The approach allows local governments to approve the types of housing they believe meet local needs but carries the prospect the state will step in if too few projects are approved.
Several town supervisors told Newsday they were still reviewing the proposal but worried about how it could interfere with local control over zoning rules. The proposal was part of Hochul’s State of the State speech Tuesday, and it will be several weeks before she releases more detail in her proposed budget. The proposal is subject to negotiation with the State Legislature.
The Affirmative Fair Housing Act
If you remember, Barack Obama pushed the affirmative fair housing act into place when he was president. It hasn’t gone anywhere. Kathy Hochul is looking to accelerate it here in New York. There’s already precedent for it with the Mount Laurel decision in New Jersey. It has pushed the housing act in New Jersey and is destroying zoning laws.
It will destroy the suburbs and make every suburb into a metropolitan area. Some people believe Democrats are doing this so they get votes in the suburbs which are traditionally Republican. What progressive Democrats plan to do is move people who are here illegally into those areas and they will vote Democrat.
We would no longer have control over who comes into our neighborhoods.
The sad thing is that most Americans don’t know what is going on. All of this is straight out of The Communist Manifesto.
Kathy Hochul plans to add these 800,000 affordable housing units in Westchester, Rockland County, Nassau County and Suffolk County. She will claim it’s a housing emergency.
The same bad progressive policies that ruined the metropolitan areas in our country will now ruin the suburbs. This is her plan, and if the Democrat legislature goes along with it, that is the end of the suburban land in New York.
The Democrats have made clear that this is what they plan to do. This is not a conspiracy theory. They’ve been pretty open about it.
Let’s mess up the suburbs.
I’ve lived in Tompkins, Schuyler (westerm NY) & Ulster (hudson valley) counties in NY. One would not think that housing would be so expensive in Western NY, but it is – Cornell University is the main draw for tompkins, and some ppl commute as far as Rochester and other fingerlakes areas to it – both as students or employees. The… Read more »
What else is one to expect from a socialist scumbag hell bent on destroying the lives of those that actually work for a living and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. Dragging the rest of us down to the lowest common denominator is the only hope they have at selling their delusion of equality; because we all… Read more »
its more than democrat/republican. NY is corrupt enough to laud hilary clinton when they should have sent her packing back to arkansas. Cuomo #1 sucked and then they brought back his scummy son for another round. Housing is exploitative, utilities is exploitative. Small town taxes and policies are exploitative, housing is exploitative, the job market is exploitative. but the issues… Read more »
Just imagine what this is going to do to crime and property values.
I live in what used to be an old peaceful German neighborhood just outside of Buffalo for over 40 years. In the last five years it has been infiltrated by a “certain” people bringing their ghetto ways . . it’s getting noisier and trashier by the day. They’re never satisfied, ruining everything everywhere they go. The once new affordable housing… Read more »
not surprising. Western NY has been having the cheapest home prices compared to downstate/eastern NY. Ultimately, its the developers and the AirBnB’ers, that residents should be taking a stand against. Not really the resulting people that move in. Plus, on the “certain” people, I can sympathize to a point, because each place has their own certain people. Albany has a… Read more »
let’s hear from some New Yorkers
I didn’t vote for her and neither did any of my friends and family. But once again, the NY election was stolen and we’re going to get shafted by the one party rule in our once great state of New York. Many are considering selling, against their will, but unfortunately aren’t left with much of a choice. The dems are… Read more »
The dems are NOT turning ” it into a cesspool”…They ARE the cesspool…
NY politicans overall are the cesspool. The republicans are pervs just like the democrats. Politics are just corrupt in general. We need normal people to start running – like a mailman or a receptionist, in addition to the ones who are buying up the votes with backdoor lobbying.
I agree. I’m retired and getting closer to the end of my life. Part of me wants to run to Florida while there is still room and part of me wants to just ride my last days out here. At least I got to see the best of New York State before it turned into this mess. The 1950’s right… Read more »
My family has been going back and forth to FL since the 70s, and each decade both places erode. FL is really bad too. As for room, they keep on running out of room and keep on creating new projects. Florida – at least S.FL, will always be creating “more room” via developments because that is a major part of… Read more »
She needs to be kept in the courts. This can’t be legal. She’s ruling like a Dick tator. If an attorney would step up I have no doubt New Yorkers would donate to fund the lawsuits. Our elected Republican town supervisors must fight this. Our schools will be destroyed.
schools are already destroyed. drug testing, sex ed, vax mandates, mask mandates, shitty curriculums, poor quality teachers. Just homeschool.
I live in Western New York. Most of it is beautiful as long as you stay away from the bigger cities, Buffalo and Rochester. Sadly, even Niagara Falls looks like a dump thanks to a certain breed who are slaves to the government. They eventually ruin everything that’s given to them. Community centers, parks, housing . . and then infiltrate… Read more »