Adams ignoring COY for Housing opposition

To the editor:

Mayor Adams is not telling the whole truth when he claims “New Yorkers are saying yes to more affordable housing.”

He ignores the number of community boards that have voted a resounding no against the City of Yes, skips over the groundswell of resident opposition and does not mention several other pertinent facts that undercut his argument.

Those include the inconvenient facts this proposal does not actually require any affordable housing, cedes land-use decisions to developers and will worsen the effects of climate change by eliminating green space.

My neighborhood is a lovely community with a mix of single-family homes, small multi-family homes and larger apartment buildings, and it is denser near the Long Island Rail Road station than it is a few blocks away.

Isn’t that what we want?

We have available space along commercial corridors where builders could put apartment buildings right now, today, but they don’t want to because they would profit more from jamming quick-and-dirty new buildings into residential blocks than by taking on the kind of larger-scale projects we need; and that would deliver more homes in appropriate locations.

Developers should not decide how our communities grow, we should. But by ignoring this reality and publishing sunny articles that claim to have the support he needs for this horrible proposal, our mayor is flat-out lying to us.

We should all be asking why; who profits from this? Developers, that’s who.

Let’s put a stop to this misguided proposal, fix the outdated zoning rules the planning commission keeps citing as the reason we can’t get housing built and create housing without destroying communities.

Roseann Foley Henry