I'll keep tweeting it as long as polls keep showing it: housing costs are the #1 issue for New Yorkers. (worth reading the rest of the results for a fascinating look at the race - I've never seen New York's diverse electorate so granularly examined)

“The answer seems to have been for the past few years to that, to try to solve the housing crisis, to keep making units smaller,” On the difficult trade offs in building affordable housing in expensive New York…

What actually happened during "housing week"?? City Limits has the quick summary for your Friday!

July w/ SAILORR Lola Young Westside Gunn Brevin Kim Clipse Lilttle Simz Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/518hw… Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/ju…

The draft plan includes a program to encourage New Yorkers living in areas prone to severe flooding to voluntarily move, and another to legalize more housing with shared kitchens or other common facilities. via patrick spauster: bit.ly/3HlKjBT

“ We've watched so many other corporations and foundations and businesses just like completely turn their back on the community, and the city didn't do it" New York opens first-in-nation homeless shelter for transgender people Story by Karen Yi for Gothamist WNYC 🎙

For three years, Eric Adams and his technology and police departments have planned to use a free internet program to expand surveillance at NYCHA. We could not find a single instance of them telling anyone — not NYCHA residents, not the City Council, and perhaps not NYCHA itself.

Incredibly exciting vision to help transform NYC into a truly world-class bicycling city. “Imagine walking or biking the entire perimeter of Manhattan, or cycling the waterfront from Far Rockaway through Brooklyn and back up to College Point without dodging trucks and cars.”

News @citylimitsnews! City Council Passed the Midtown South Rezoning with ease 43-0. Anyone else remember when neighborhood rezonings used to be harder? Officials say that attitudes towards housing development in the city are changing. citylimits.org/midtown-south-…

“Of the total units Adams is counting, just 95,100 are actually new homes that have already been or will soon be added to the market. Roughly 40% of that total has been completed.” Janaki Chadha on the admins housing progress but exaggerated numbers politi.co/4lyMUGT

More on Cuomo's controversial pitch to cap incomes for tenants moving into rent-stabilized apartments, and the other local housing news you might've missed this week, via patrick spauster and Jeanmarie Evelly: bit.ly/41709qO

Another perfect day in the NYC mayoral race

Really striking to what degree NY has become an outlier in recovering from the remote-work shift, especially given that it is the city that was hit first and hardest by the pandemic that prompted the shift.

“Heat-related incidents have definitely been on the rise,” said Josiah Haken, CEO of the homeless outreach group City Relief. “The people we serve are often the ones who feel the impact of these changes most, and they can’t escape it.” bit.ly/4lvE7Fv