Major Rezonings to Address NYC’s Housing Crisis a Standout among the Adams Administration’s Accomplishments

As the change of New York City’s administration in City Hall quickly approaches let’s take a moment to reflect on the accomplishments of the Adams Administration as it begins wrapping up its to-do list. Taking center stage is the ambitious goal to increase the city’s housing supply. According to the July 2025 press release by Mayor Adams’ office, a total of approximately 426,800 homes has been created, preserved, or planned over his term to help ease the city’s current affordable housing crisis. Efforts to achieve the goal led to five major neighborhood rezoning proposals that could create up to 47,800 new homes over a decade, of which 14,750 would be permanently affordable — Bronx Metro-North Station Area, Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan, Midtown South Mixed-use Plan, Jamaica, and OneLIC. In response to the passage of the rezonings, Andrew Fine, the policy director at pro-housing group Open New York, reportedly stated that the rezonings “mark a welcome change from the ‘downzonings’ that restricted growth in an area and were more common in the 2000s, when the city did not recognize its housing shortage the same way it does now.” However, Fine further commented that the current pace of reaching the goal line is not on target, “and so that just means the next mayor has to do even bigger changes to get us onto that path.”

Source:    https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/look-mayor-eric-adams-neighborhood-rezonings