A Mamdani order revokes all executive orders issued by former mayor Eric Adams, including one that created a city office focused on cryptocurrency.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani issued several executive orders on his first day in office aimed at fulfilling his campaign promise to make housing more affordable, according to reporting by Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Emma Goldberg in The New York Times.
“Mr. Mamdani announced three executive orders that would boost the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants and create two task forces to accelerate housing construction.” One task force, Land Inventory Fast Track (LIFT), will identify city-owned land that could be developed into housing. The other, Streamlining Procedures to Expedite Equitable Development (SPEED), will “identify and remove barriers like permitting that slow down projects.
Mamdani said a rent freeze is “not the extent of our efforts,” and that the new administration will “stand up for tenants, build new housing and get New Yorkers into housing faster.”
The new mayor also signed an order that revokes all executive order signed by former mayor Eric Adams after the date of his indictment on criminal charges. The revoked orders include one that allowed federal immigration officials to investigate criminal activity at Reikers Island and another that created an office focused on blockchain technology.
FULL STORY: Mamdani’s First Orders Focus on Housing and Undoing Adams’s Decisions
What Zohran Mamdani’s Primary Win Means for the Tenant Movement
The mayoral candidate made a rent freeze central to his campaign. Here's how his supporters used in-person campaigning to clinch a victory, and what's ahead.
NYC Mayor Mamdani Backs Down on Expanded Rental Assistance Program, Citing $7 Billion Deficit
The new mayor had promised to expand the CityFHEPS rent assistance program to an additional 47,000 households.
NYC landlords sue Mamdani administration over rent freeze
The suit charges the administration with unfairly promoting the rent freeze and accuses the city's Rent Guidelines Board of yielding to pressure from the mayor.
The state-sanctioned urbicide of Austin
People don’t kill cities. Freeways do.
US to reduce Colorado River water deliveries to Mexico
A new Colorado Treaty amendment reduces Mexico’s Colorado River water allocation by 250,000 acre feet.
New Jersey’s second-largest city bans standalone data centers
Jersey City will continue to allow co-location facilities, such as those meant for research institutions that store their own data.
Amtrak not solely to blame for New Jersey commuter rail's unreliability, report finds
A new study from the Garden State Initiative found that NJ Transit’s budget grew 20% across a 4 year period, but reliability declined significantly over the same period.
EPA erases limits on planet-warming pollution from power plants
Under Monday’s plan, power plants would still have some limits on how much mercury, arsenic and other contaminants they can emit.
Phoenix announces new on-demand transit service, more frequent RAPID buses
Both new services will launch in October, and are part of Phoenix's Project Effective Access Solutions for Easing Congestion.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
Eagle County Government
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Nashville Planning Department
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
Journal of the American Planning Association