In his run-up to becoming mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani centered his housing strategy around freezing the rent for the city’s nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments.
But the mayor has said comparatively little about an even more vulnerable population: the 300,000 or so people who live in the city’s crumbling public housing system.
On Tuesday, Mr. Mamdani intends to release a comprehensive plan to address longstanding problems at the New York City Housing Authority.
The plan includes several measures to shore up public housing, including using two financing tools to raise money for repairs, restoring thousands of vacant apartments and building new housing on land owned by the authority.
Leila Bozorg, his deputy mayor for housing and planning, said in an interview that Mr. Mamdani had been “clear that he wants to put NYCHA residents front and center in his housing plan.”
“We think this is a holistic approach to really try to chip away at the issues facing NYCHA, including the backlog that residents deal with each day,” she said.
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