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https://nypost.com/2024/01/24/metro/nyc-...g-apple-for-affordable-housing-projects/

NYC Mayor Eric Adams to push plan for public sites across Big Apple for affordable housing projects





By Craig McCarthy and Emily Crane
Jan. 24, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams is set to use his State of the City address Wednesday to unveil a new push to use a slew of city-owned properties for affordable housing projects, The Post has learned.

The new plan will make use of public sites across the Big Apple in a bid to advance a total of 24 housing projects by the end of the year, according to an early snippet of Hizzoner’s speech obtained by The Post.

The ambitious project — dubbed “24 in 24” — will create or preserve more than 12,000 affordable homes scattered across the five boroughs, according to the mayor’s office.

“Our ’24 in 24’ plan to create and preserve affordable housing on 24 publicly-owned sites is another example of how we’re doing everything within our control to deliver housing and relief to New Yorkers when they need it most,” Adams said in a statement to The Post.

Among the locations already tipped to be part of the project is the Grand Concourse Library on 173rd Street in the Bronx and a Staten Island site located on the corner of Canal and Front streets.

At least three of the sites slated to be announced in Adams’ initial plan later Wednesday have already been floated as affordable housing developments, including 388 Hudson St. in the Greenwich Village.

In September, the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development had unveiled four potential renderings of the soaring building, which could rise up to 355 feet at the city-owned lot — angering some residents in the quaint neighborhood.

Two other lots in Queens — including the Hunters Point South Parcel E and a parking lot on Ninth Avenue in Inwood — are also HPD-led projects that are among the initial sites included in the mayor’s new plan.