The de Blasio administration announced they would be partnering with Council Member Helen Rosenthal to hold a free Rent Freeze enrollment event for New Yorkers in the Upper West Side.
The Brownsville Plan is the result of a community-driven process to identify neighborhood goals, form strategies to address local needs, and find resources to fill gaps in service. This will result in the creation of over 2,500 new affordable homes.
Mayor de Blasio announced that his administration financed 32,116 affordable homes last year, breaking the all-time record previously set by former Mayor Ed Koch in 1989 of 25,243 units.
The de Blasio Administration announced that the City is streamlining its rental assistance programs, consolidating seven different initiatives into one, to make it easier for New Yorkers to get back on their feet or remain in their homes and simpler for landlords to participate in the programs.
Mayor de Blasio appeared live at City Hall to discuss the issue of migrant children still being housed in the City without their parents and children in public housing being exposed to lead in the paint in their buildings.
Mayor de Blasio appeared on NY1 to discuss lead paint found in public housing in the City, with 800 children testing positive for elevated levels of lead in their bodies.