n investment of $4B to restore public While this focused the mission of agency housing and build and preserve affordable staff and leaders, it distracted the City from housing across the five boroughs will produce measuring whether the plan was achieving profound benefits for families and communities, important objectives and improving housing informed by a firm quantitative and qualitative and other issues in the city. United for Housing understanding of housing pressures in New York encourages the next mayor to connect housing City, and directed by a broader range of goals. investment to such objectives, committing to Ultimately, the City can become a place where specific numerical improvements in the metrics, any New Yorker can access affordable, safe, high including improving public health, outcomes quality housing or one day own a home regardless for children, racial integration, environmental of their identity, where standards, homelessness rates of homelessness and other important and eviction have priorities. Expanding the collapsed and housing City’s housing metrics United for Housing stability is no longer will not only deepen the encourages the next a source of anxiety, City’s commitment to where public housing affordable housing, but mayor to connect is celebrated and also serve as a selling housing investment to supported as a valuable point for gaining broadsuch objectives, including public good, and where based community a well-preserved housing support. Alternative improving public health, stock secures New metrics will give form outcomes for children, Yorkers’ health and to powerful narratives resilience. that communities can racial integration, rally behind and use to environmental Previous New York hold the next mayor City housing plans accountable. standards, homelessness defined success almost and other important entirely in terms of Instead of building and priorities. the number of housing preserving housing in units financed through a vacuum, additional new construction and metrics will show preservation programs. whether the next Metrics found in the administration is mayor’s management report (MMR) reflect making the city affordable and just. For NYC’s this focus, measuring construction starts and next housing plan, we recommend expanding completions by income level, bedroom size metrics in the MMR to measure progress on and special needs population along with certain improving outcomes for New Yorkers aligned with economic indicators including jobs created and the guiding principles we expect to underpin the economic output associated with construction. next housing plan.
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