City Launches Online Map to Track Affordable Housing Projects
The map shows more than 100 sites and roughly 50,000 planned homes as the city seeks faster development on public land.
- On Thursday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled the Land Inventory Fast Track tracker, an interactive map displaying over 100 city-owned sites where his administration says more than 50,000 affordable homes will be built.
- With the city's rental vacancy rate at 1.4%, Mamdani's "Block by Block" housing plan aims to build 200,000 affordable homes over the next decade, using the tracker to provide transparency into the city's public-land pipeline.
- Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning Leila Bozorg noted after the Thursday tour that "we don't have that many very kind of easy, clean-cut vacant sites anymore to turn into housing," requiring creative development alongside libraries and public facilities.
- Officials plan to issue requests for proposals for at least five additional city-owned sites in each of the next four years, while environmental review reforms aim to reduce pre-certification timelines by up to 18 months.
- Most projects on the tracker were announced under previous mayors and remain unfinished, requiring significant community engagement, financing, and land-use approvals before construction can begin on the identified properties.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Deputy Mayor of Housing and Planning Leila Bozorg presented the Land Inventory Fast Track (LIFT) Tracker, an interactive tool that offers New Yorkers the first comprehensive vision of the administration’s plan to develop affordable housing on publicly owned land. The tracker shows on a more [...]
What is the LIFT Tracker, Mamdani's tool for monitoring affordable housing construction in New York?
City launches tracker for 50,000 affordable homes planned on city-owned land – but little vacant land remains
Mayor Zohran Mamdani launched an online tracker on Thursday mapping more than 100 city-owned sites where his administration says roughly 50,000 homes are planned in an effort to give New Yorkers a clearer view of the city’s housing pipeline on public land. The Land Inventory Fast Track, or LIFT, tracker brings together projects across the...
On a double-decker bus tour, Mamdani touts housing plans for city land
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