New York Mayor Eric Adams announced Thursday that the city is undertaking what he called a "moonshot" housing program that aims to create 500,000 housing units over the next decade.
Adams issued a report entitled "Get Stuff Done" listing more than 100 ways NYC's "administration of development is broken."
The mayor offered a bevy of solutions, most of which involve cutting red tape, including speeding up the precertification process of the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure that clears the way for zoning changes, and exempting housing projects with fewer than 200 units from environmental reviews.
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