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Governor Hochul Announces Executive Actions on Housing

Jul 25, 2023

On Tuesday, July 18, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced several executive actions to promote housing growth, including:

Declaring an Executive Order establishing priority in certain discretionary funding programs for localities across the state that comply with a new “Pro-Housing Community” certification process;
Creating a program to advance residential projects halted by the expiration of 421-a that include affordable housing; limited to within the Gowanus rezoning area in Brooklyn;
Requiring all state entities to identify the potential for state-owned lands to support housing;
Recent and forthcoming regulatory initiatives to identify opportunities for greater efficiencies to promote housing growth;
Launching of the beta version of a new, interactive portal to collect and share community-level housing and zoning data and information.

To read a full breakdown of Governor Hochul’s executive actions, click here.