How New York – and other cities – can beat NIMBY

How New York – and other cities – can beat NIMBY

As has long been true, each of the major New York mayoral candidates has declared a commitment to building more affordable housing. It’s the first issue listed on the platforms of Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo, and second (to public safety) on that of Eric Adams. But recent history tells us to be skeptical about how easy such promises — or any housing construction at all-will be to fulfill, notwithstanding naïve ideas such as that of Mamdani t…