In City & State NY, John Sanchez warns if Albany doesn't address NYC's housing crisis, we will witness increased homelessness and population loss – having a trickle-down effect on NYC's schools, the MTA & infrastructure projects. Read Shantel Destra: cityandstateny.com/policy/2023/05…

It's unacceptable New Yorkers continue to suffer as a result of Albany opposing housing relief. We're “tired of Manhattan elected officials being more concerned about tall buildings than...thousands of New Yorkers living in shelters,” says John Sanchez. cityandstateny.com/policy/2023/05…

New: Areas in New York that saw the slowest rent growth from 2017 to 2023 made more housing available. Areas with strict zoning that couldn’t keep up with the housing demand saw rents spike. Why adding more housing improves affordability: pew.org/3CcKw4t

NYC data is out on total # of new multi-family residential building permits in the month of May. Citywide: 6 buildings totaling 539 units Manhattan: 0 buildings Yes you read that right. This is a five-alarm crisis.

Tomorrow on #InFocusNY1, @CherylWillsNY1 is joined by Queens Borough President Donovan Richards to discuss affordable housing. Plus, John Sanchez and Empire State Properties' Suzanne Miller are on with the current #HousingCrisis and market. Watch Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Today on #InFocusNY1, @CherylWillsNY1, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, John Sanchez and Empire State Properties' Suzanne Miller discuss the #HousingCrisis in the city. Watch at 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

We cannot wait until next year for Albany to take action on housing. There’s a freight train barreling towards us in the form of even higher rents. NYC will continue to grow in net population - we always have and always will. Middle-class housing production must resume now.

“This is an opportunity for Albany to unleash 20,000 new apartments south of 96th Street in Manhattan.” Watch John Sanchez discuss with Spectrum News NY1’s @CherylWillsNY1 how conversions and lifting the FAR cap can deliver housing relief to everyday New Yorkers: spectruminfocus.com/section/in-foc…

“If Albany does nothing on housing this legislative session, it will be a failure.” John Sanchez urges lawmakers in Albany to support conversions and #LiftTheFARcap to expand affordable housing across NYC. Watch his discussion with Spectrum News NY1 @CherylWillsNY1: spectruminfocus.com/section/in-foc…

“The State Legislature has let New Yorkers down.” Following yesterday's announcement that the NY Legislature failed to reach an agreement on housing, John Sanchez calls on lawmakers to remain in Albany until they come up with a solution to NYC’s dire housing crisis. Read ⬇️

Dr. Hazel N. Dukes of NAACP New York State Conference, Dr. Johnnie Green of MPAC-NY, and John Sanchez stress the need for housing solutions from lawmakers in Albany to stop “the mass exodus of Black New Yorkers who are finding it harder and harder to live here.” Read New York Amsterdam News: amsterdamnews.com/news/2023/06/0…

“The overwhelming majority of affordable housing that is built comes from private developers that team up with public agencies and tap public subsidies.” nytimes.com/2023/06/14/bus…

CHPC’s Howard Slatkin demystifies “illusionary zoning” practices that look like it they’ll help us out of our housing affordability crisis but really dig us in deeper: gothamgazette.com/130-opinion/12…

“…the same people who want to increase affordability in rezonings are hostile to replacing the expired 421-a program. But mapping MIH without a 421-a replacement is Wishful Zoning – on paper, it sounds like more housing and more affordability, but in practice we’ll get neither.”

100,000 people in NY shelters and the NY state legislature breaks for summer recess for the next 6 months. nytimes.com/2023/06/28/nyr…

This is a great great piece about what happens to local politics in the absence of truly representative elections theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

How Child Care in New York City Became Unaffordable for Nearly Everyone nytimes.com/2023/09/11/nyr…

“By investing in transit and allowing development, the city has added more housing units than the total number of units in New York City.” ⁦Binyamin Appelbaum⁩ nytimes.com/2023/09/11/opi…

If anybody is looking for two tremendous NYC journalists, they could do no better than @NDHapple and David Cruz.

New >> California and New York are projected to lose up to 8 electoral votes in 2030. Texas and Florida are projected to gain 8. If Kamala Harris had to compete with that map, even winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin wouldn’t have saved her.