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Analysis: How to Leverage ‘City of Yes’ Zoning to Create More Housing Near Subways
Streetsblog analyses existing zoning, population and travel times to determine the best places for increasing housing density ... now!
July 28, 2025
Council Likely To Weaken Mayor’s ‘City Of Yes’ Pro-Housing Zoning Plan
The City of Yes for Housing Opportunity is up for a vote on Thursday and the City Council has signaled it will roll back the proposal to remove parking mandates citywide.
November 20, 2024
HOUSING CRISIS: Council Pushes Mayor to Create ‘City Of Yes … And’
The speaker of the City Council is demanding that Mayor Adams's signature housing initiative create more affordable units — but it's unclear if she backs the key proposal that undergirds the plan: ending mandatory parking.
November 4, 2024
President Sprawl? What’s With Pols Talking About Developing Federal Land?
The federal government's job should be "to make sure that all people have the choice of living in the community that they choose and that they’re able to afford to live there,” said one activist.
October 23, 2024
City of Yes: Council Hears Rezoning Plan as Jumaane Thumbs the Scale
As the city planning commission admits that removing parking mandates is the key to making key pillars of City of Yes work, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams announces he does not support lifiting the mandates citywide.
October 22, 2024
Will Indicted Mayor Adams’s Bid to Eliminate Parking Mandates Survive Council Review?
As the City Council review proccess begins, experts say it is crucial to keep getting rid of parking mandates in the City of Yes.
October 3, 2024
Op-Ed: Eliminating Parking Mandate is the Central Piece of ‘City of Yes’ Plan
City of Yes can only work — and we urgently need it to work — if we do that.
October 2, 2024
Two Brooklyn Boards Say Yes To Mayor’s Housing Plan (Sort Of…)
In Brooklyn, two community boards with very different demographics split on parking mandates.
June 14, 2024
City of ‘No’: Community Board Members Don’t Want Newcomers Stealing ‘Their’ Parking
The road to more housing is paved with lots of people who don't want to give up parking, as the mayor is finding as his City of Yes plan goes forward.
May 10, 2024
Manhattan Judge Tosses ‘Green Amendment’ Lawsuit Against Two Bridges Mega-Development
Sorry, NIMBYs, but dense development is just life in the city.
May 11, 2023
