Open New York
Grassroots nonprofit fighting for more homes for all New Yorkers
- This is the core of our housing crisis. Do we want more inclusive communities? Or do we want to fight for parking spots?
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- Kicking off our rally for the Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act with @agounardes.bsky.social @nyamcunningham.bsky.social , @lindabrosenthal.bsky.social and @briankavanagh.bsky.social “Because of our failure to build more housing in this state, New York is projected to lose two house seats.”
- SEQRA is raising your rent. Years of paperwork and lawsuits in the environmental review process can add up to $82,000 to the cost of a new home, driving up costs for New Yorkers. It's time to fix this.
- Reposted by Open New YorkETA is proud to be part of Unlock New York's Future, a coalition to modernize SEQRA. For too long environmental law has been used as a cudgel to stop or delay transit investments that we know will benefit not only NYers, but the environment. It's time to #UnlockNYsFuture.
- It’s time to modernize SEQRA and unlock New York’s future: infill housing, clean energy, & green infrastructure. We’re launching a coalition of 30+ orgs to update the law, while still protecting our environment. Let’s #UnlockNYsFuture
- It’s time to modernize SEQRA and unlock New York’s future: infill housing, clean energy, & green infrastructure. We’re launching a coalition of 30+ orgs to update the law, while still protecting our environment. Let’s #UnlockNYsFuture
- This coalition includes our friends @rpa.org, and leaders in environmental conservation like the Catskill Center, affordable housing like Habitat for Humanity of NYS, and transit advocacy like @ridersalliance.org.
- 🚨 New York is now set to lose TWO congressional seats. Texas and Florida will both gain 4. That's because they're building homes, and we're not. With our democracy at stake, we cannot afford for blue states to lose any more seats. New York must build more housing.
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- Reposted by Open New YorkBy clearing the path for more home choices near jobs and transit, New York is making room for a more affordable, sustainable future for everyone. 🗽🌱
- @AnnemarieGray.bsky.social on why it’s time to update SEQRA: “There are so many points in this process to modernize, and make sure government is using every tool at its disposal to address cost of living and the dire housing affordability crisis.”
- “New Yorkers are facing soaring housing costs. Today, the environmental review process often gets abused by 1 person who’s trying to stop affordable housing right above a transit stop. That’s crazy, and it's not serving our affordability or climate goals." @AnnemarieGray.bsky.social
- NEW POLL: 63% of New Yorkers support modernizing SEQRA environmental review to make it easier to build housing. New Yorkers are facing an unprecedented affordability and climate crisis, and they don't want bureaucracy to stand in the way of solving it.
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- “Even to build 83 units has taken so much struggle. That should not be so hard. This is an example of the scale of progress that was held up… We want to build as much as possible across this city, for those who call this city home and those who would love to.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
- We’re here in the Bronx alongside @NYCMayor and more to celebrate the resumption of the Just Home project, which will create 70 affordable homes with services for formerly-incarcerated New Yorkers. This long-overdue project is an act of compassion for our fellow New Yorkers.
- “As a doctor, the best prescription for my unhoused patients is housing. We have land. We want to house our patients. We want to use our land to house our patients.”
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- Excellent video from our new Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning!
- Reposted by Open New YorkYou probably don't know what SEQRA is - but you should know that it's slowing down the housing that we need. Deputy Mayor Leila Bozorg is here to explain why reforming it is key to cutting red tape and building more housing.
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- @ZohranKMamdani.bsky.social calls for modernizing environmental review “to deliver an affordability agenda on the timetable needed.” “We cannot address our housing crisis without making it easier to build in NYC.”
- @governor.ny.gov calls to reform SEQRA environmental reviews: “Right now they slow down the very projects that help us fight climate change, create housing, and strengthen our communities.” It’s time to end those delays and deliver for New Yorkers.
- “Even projects everyone agrees we need — affordable housing, clean energy, critical infrastructure — can spend years trapped in red tape, pushing up the costs and pushing opportunities further away.”
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- 🚨 NEW: New York State is modernizing its environmental review process to ensure that infill housing, clean energy, and climate resiliency infrastructure doesn’t get blocked by endless lawsuits and delays.
- SEQRA, a law originally intended to protect our environment, is now holding us back from building the green infrastructure we need to tackle today’s climate and affordability crisis.
- The solution to high housing prices is to build more homes. This will only make things worse.
- Thank you to Dan Garodnick!! Amid unprecedented political storms, Garodnick stayed focused on delivering more housing for New Yorkers and made @NYCPlanning.bsky.social the bright spot of the administration.
- Our Executive Director @AnnemarieGray spoke on 1010 WINS this morning on the landmarking of Victorian Flatbush
- Since 2010, Jersey City has been building 4x as much housing as NYC. The result? Rents stopped rising—and now they may be falling. New York City could do the same, says @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
