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HPD is currently in the midst of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's Housing New York initiative to create and preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing by 2026. By the end of 2021, the City of New York financed more than 200,000 affordable homes since 2014, breaking the all-time record previously set by former Mayor Ed Koch. [3]
The Metropolitan Council on Housing (also referred to as Met Council) is a tenant rights organization in New York City founded in 1959. [1] As the oldest and largest tenants' organization in the city," [ 2 ] [ 3 ] it has focused on issues including rent regulation and affordable public housing.
The codified local laws of New York City are contained in the New York City Administrative Code. [24] [25] The Council has several committees with oversight of various functions of the city government. Each council member sits on at least three standing, select or subcommittees. The standing committees meet at least once per month.
New York City recently made it legal to add a housing unit to certain one- and two-family homes. But both city and state regulations will drastically limit construction, experts say. A state law ...
— Mihir Zaveri, 5 Ways to Fix New York City’s Housing Crisis, The New York Times, (November 26th, 2024) Maggie Brunn had 56,126 total Housing Maintenance Code violations in New York City as of February 7th, 2025.
From November 2013 until January 2016, the NYC Housing, Preservation and Development agency, which is responsible for oversight of the city’s vast stock of multi-unit residential buildings, issued more than 10,000 violations for dangerous lead paint conditions in units with children under the age of six, the age group most at risk of ingesting lead paint.
The New York City Council is the lawmaking body of New York City in the United States. It has 51 members from 51 council districts throughout the five boroughs.. The council serves as a check against the mayor in a mayor-council government model, the performance of city agencies' land use decisions, and legislating on a variety of other issues.
The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) is the department of the New York City government that enforces the city's building codes and zoning regulations, issues building permits, licenses, registers and disciplines certain construction trades, responds to structural emergencies and inspects over 1,000,000 new and existing buildings.