{"id":1314,"date":"2026-02-15T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:45:20","slug":"the-best-way-to-build-new-york-affordable-housing-not-luxury-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/2026\/02\/15\/the-best-way-to-build-new-york-affordable-housing-not-luxury-units\/","title":{"rendered":"The best way to build New York: Affordable housing, not luxury units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Roberta Brandes Grantz<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why are we tearing down viable affordable housing to be replaced by luxury condos? Where are all the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/content\/planning\/pages\/our-work\/plans\/citywide\/city-of-yes-housing-opportunity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">City of Yes<\/a>\u00a0cheerleaders who pushed for build, build, build? Did they really think developers would willingly spare existing housing in order to build new? LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/15\/the-best-way-to-build-new-york-affordable-housing-not-luxury-units\/\">Affordable Housing Not Luxury Units<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Roberta Brandes Grantz<\/p>\n<p>Why are we tearing down viable affordable housing to be replaced by luxury condos? Where are all the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/content\/planning\/pages\/our-work\/plans\/citywide\/city-of-yes-housing-opportunity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">City of Yes<\/a>\u00a0cheerleaders who pushed for build, build, build? Did they really think developers would willingly spare existing housing in order to build new? LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/15\/the-best-way-to-build-new-york-affordable-housing-not-luxury-units\/\">Affordable Housing Not Luxury Units<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}