NEW YORK — Tuesday was the second day of public hearings on Mayor Eric Adams' "City of Yes" housing proposal. If approved it would update zoning laws to allow buildings to be built with 20% more ...

The City Council ultimately said yes to what the mayor has called New York City’s “most historical housing reform,” but just barely. The Council on Thursday voted 31-20 in favor of the ...

Mayor Eric Adams officially signed the 'City of Yes for Housing Opportunities' into law during a ceremony on Wednesday, the last stop of a long campaign for zoning reform aimed at ending the ...

Instead of generating up to 109,000 units over 15 years, the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity is now expected to add about 80,000 beyond what would otherwise have been built. The City Council ...

To many experts, New York’s City of Yes housing plan is modest — a set of zoning changes designed to induce gradual growth in low-rise neighborhoods. But to the people who spent two years ...

Of Brooklyn’s 18 community boards, 11 disapproved “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity,” and six approved. The results of the ...

The new rules — packaged as City of Yes for Housing Opportunity — roll back arcane restrictions that have long stifled housing supply in an era of staggering demand, and they have come about ...

Backers of Mayor Eric Adams’ “City of Yes” housing plan are mounting a final blitz to try to pressure the City Council into approving the zoning overhaul — and they’re going straight to ...

The City of Yes, before the City Council today, doesn’t include everything I might like it to. But it’s the boldest approach that New York has put forth to escape our housing shortage, and it ...

After heated negotiations, we can all breathe easier that the bulk of the City of Yes zoning changes survived the gauntlet of the City Council with its major provisions untouched, with only some ...