Pro-housing coalition takes a ballot proposals victory lap
The housing-related ballot proposals passed last week with broad support across the city, winning 55 of the city’s 65 Assembly districts, according to a new report from one of their biggest supporters.
Every Assembly district that Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani won voted in favor of the housing-related proposals, according to the report. But they also won six Assembly districts won by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo: the Upper East Side, Staten Island’s North Shore, Co-Op City/East Bronx, Flushing and Corona/Lefrak City. After studiously avoiding taking a position on the proposals publicly, Mamdani revealed he voted in favor of the four housing ones after casting his ballot on Election Day.
“New Yorkers from the Bronx to Brooklyn have been suffering under skyrocketing housing costs for far too long,” said Amit Singh Bagga, campaign director of the Yes on Affordable Housing coalition and political action committee. “The success of these measures proves what we already knew: that we’ve been out of time and out of excuses.”
While there were six measures on the ballot for the general election, the coalition’s efforts centered on promoting proposals two through five, which pertained to the city’s development process. Those were created by a Charter Revision Commission convened by Mayor Eric Adams last year. Voters passed all four of them with a decisive margin on Nov. 4 despite opposition from the City Council and several labor unions, delivering a strong message about New Yorkers’ willingness to embrace development amid the city’s dire housing crisis.
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