NYC Agencies Tasked With Finding Affordable Housing Sites

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is requiring city agencies to assess their property inventories in an effort to find sites for new affordable housing developments. As Marcia Kramer reports for CBS News, “In signing the executive order, the mayor wants agencies to look at every property and facility in their portfolios, including the sanitation building at 7 North Moore St. in Tribeca., for evaluation as possible housing sites, because the city faces a dire housing crisis.”

The mayor focused in on the city’s 578 miles of waterfront. Commenting on the area, Adolfo Carrion Jr., commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, called it “a lot of publicly owned land there that we can exploit in the best sense of the word for the city's competitive edge in terms of housing its workforce and housing its future.”

City officials say every viable city property is on the table — with some “notable exceptions” that include the city’s most famous parks. The city has already engaged in some affordable housing projects on converted city properties, including a Manhattan library branch that was redeveloped into a new library and 174 housing units.