The only candidate who’s already delivered. The only one who will.
New York doesn’t need another housing plan. It needs housing built. Achieving major progress on housing in our city is difficult, but Adrienne Adams is the only candidate for Mayor who’s already done it—overcoming NIMBY opposition, passing the broadest zoning reform in a generation, and unlocking over 120,000 new homes during her tenure. As Mayor, she’ll build on her success to go bigger – more housing, more investments in affordability and preservation, and more homeownership.
In 2024, Governor Hochul proposed the New York Housing Compact — the first serious attempt in decades to fix the housing crisis. But it was never enacted, or even brought to a vote. Housing demands more than campaign promises; it requires action to deliver tangible results that produce homes.
This is even more vital today. Rents have risen. Homelessness has grown. And families are getting pushed out of the neighborhoods they built.
Today, even New Yorkers making over $50,000 a year are ending up in shelters. Working- and middle-class renters are getting priced out and homeowners can’t afford the increased costs. And the next generation can’t afford to buy a home—denied the path to stability and wealth-building that their parents and grandparents once had.
Adrienne knows words don’t create homes and lower rents. Action does. She delivered the biggest pro-housing victory in a generation—unlocking 120,000 new homes in her time as Speaker. She stood up to opposition, charted a path, and got City of Yes done for the best interests of the city—even when the Mayor became too politically damaged to help.
She also secured $8 billion in funding for affordable housing, homeownership programs, Mitchell-Lamas, and NYCHA repairs.
Now, she’s launching the next phase: a bold platform to make New York a City of Abundance with more homes, greater affordability, and homeownership. It will add hundreds of thousands of new homes, built faster and more affordably by cutting red tape and using the zoning reforms she already passed. Success in approving more homes to be built for New Yorkers is hard and requires political leadership— she’s the only candidate with the record of doing it at this scale who can pull it off.
Adrienne’s platform will help the City:
As Speaker, Adrienne passed City of Yes zoning reforms by securing critical changes and $5 billion for housing and neighborhood investments as part of her City for All plan. Her efforts fixed the Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program rules to require more deeply affordable homes and expanded inclusionary zoning that incentivizes the creation of affordable housing citywide for the first time in NYC history. As Mayor, she’ll use these tools and others to unlock hundreds of thousands of new homes citywide.
Increase Housing Production with New Floor Area Ratio (FAR) Zoning Authority
As Speaker, Adrienne successfully advocated for the State to lift the “12 FAR” cap for residential buildings in certain parts of New York City, so greater housing production can be allowed in high-density areas, where development had been artificially and irrationally limited by state law. As mayor, Adrienne will leverage this new authority for the City to pursue zoning changes that increase FAR and facilitate building hundreds of thousands of new units of housing.
Launch Major Neighborhood Rezonings
As part of her City for All housing plan, Adrienne negotiated the inclusion of several new neighborhood planning studies that precede area rezonings in partnership with communities. These planning efforts with communities are beginning, and Adrienne will ensure major neighborhood rezonings that unlock tens of thousands of new homes across the city advance with local support.
Build above Libraries and on City-Owned Property
In her 2024 State of the City address as Speaker, Adrienne proposed building housing on top of more library branches, where appropriate, to increase housing production and renovate libraries. This is an approach previously used sparingly, which increased after her address. To expand housing for New Yorkers as Mayor, she will advance more projects that build above libraries while renovating the library branch. In that same 2024 speech, Adrienne also proposed greater housing development on more city-owned properties, including the Aqueduct site in Queens, specifically, that could be a major source of transit oriented development given its proximity to public transit. These innovative approaches will be a priority for the City to pursue as solutions to the housing crisis under her leadership.
Implement Innovative Financing to Produce More Affordable + Workforce Housing
Adrienne will pursue innovative financing to develop more affordable and workforce housing units to reduce homelessness and support civil service workers, diversifying how affordable housing is produced. The Community Solutions Housing Fund model that has blended catalytic capital in a social impact fund with more market-oriented impact capital provides the opportunity to acquire multifamily buildings for housing people experiencing homelessness and civil service and trade workers who are being priced out by housing costs. Adrienne will also work with public service organizations that want to leverage private capital to develop affordable housing this way. She will pursue housing finance models with labor unions and other organizations that utilize investment funds, including pension funds, to finance affordable and workforce housing production and preservation.
Protect Affordability of Mitchell Lama Developments
As part of her City for All plan, Adrienne secured $2 billion in capital investments to finance affordable housing and preservation, including for Mitchell Lama developments. She also negotiated the creation of a joint City-State Mitchell Lama Action Group to support developments that have accumulated major outstanding costs that threaten their continued affordability. Adrienne will ensure this funding is supplemented and that City-State efforts help stabilize Mitchell Lamas to preserve these affordable homes for New Yorkers, addressing their increased financial liabilities and providing key assistance to navigate challenges.
Preserve More Affordable Housing
As Speaker, Adrienne secured approximately $8 billion for affordable housing development and preservation, while shepherding a new law to reduce the warehousing of vacant apartments. She also helped win reforms to revitalize a key program to preserve multifamily affordable housing buildings that was defunct but recently re-launched due to her efforts. As Mayor, she will ensure the City’s housing preservation programs are effective and investments are utilized to rehabilitate rent-stabilized units, keep them affordable and preserve all types of affordable homes for New Yorkers.
Invest $500M in NYCHA Repairs and Vacant Unit Readiness + Secure Stability
Adrienne already secured $200 million in capital funding to bring vacant NYCHA units back online and to make repairs of more Section 9 NYCHA apartments. As Mayor, Adrienne will more than double that investment to prioritize speedy deployment of these funds to ensure faster repairs for NYCHA residents to have safer homes, and create more move-in ready NYCHA apartments. She will also pursue innovative public-private financing to support the development of mixed-income housing that can provide existing NYCHA tenants with newly constructed and renovated homes while increasing overall housing supply.
Push Albany for Common-Sense Pro-Housing Reform
Adrienne will work with the State to:
Make Homeownership Possible and Sustainable
As Speaker, Adrienne has prioritized the creation and preservation of homeownership. She secured investments in the city budget and through her City for All plan to help more families access affordable homeownership and protect existing homeowners from rising costs and predatory targeting that leads to deed theft.
As Mayor, Adrienne will promote homeownership in the following ways:
As part of her housing plan, Adrienne Adams will overhaul how the city supports unhoused New Yorkers—by replacing ineffective sweeps and removals with proven housing-first solutions.
Too often, the City relies on tactics that don’t work: between January and September 2024, none of the 3,500 people subjected to homeless sweeps were placed in permanent housing. Involuntary removals, mostly from private homes, rarely led to long-term treatment. These approaches trap people in a cycle of crisis, hospitalizations, and jail—and leave them back in subways and public spaces, worse off than before.
Adrienne’s housing plan will change this dynamic. She will expand successful, peer-led models like Community First and Neighborhood Navigators, which use consistent, trust-based outreach to connect people to basic resources, housing, and mental health care. Even with modest funding, these programs have reached over 1,100 individuals through more than 1,000 one-on-one interactions.
She will also fully commit the City to the Housing First model—placing people directly into permanent supportive housing, without preconditions. National studies show nearly 80% of participants in Housing First programs remain housed after six months, compared to just 27% in other models. But under the current administration, this approach has been limited to a small pilot. Adrienne will scale it citywide, put thousands of vacant supportive housing units to use, streamline the application process, and invest in building more supportive housing—because housing is the solution, and it must be at the center of our response.
Implement CityFHEPS Improvements
As Speaker, Adrienne led the passage of new laws to remove bureaucratic barriers that New Yorkers face in accessing CityFHEPS housing vouchers. The reforms would help keep more New Yorkers in their homes by preventing evictions and more quickly transition people from homelessness to permanent housing. Yet, Mayor Adams’ administration has refused to implement the laws, despite having immense flexibility to do so in a way that is practical. Consistent with her record of problem-solving governance, Adrienne will find a pathway to successfully implement the laws and build on the record investments she has secured for CityFHEPS in tandem with the creation of more housing.
Increase Housing Assistance for Domestic Violence Victims
Adrienne has been a strong advocate for increased support to crime victims, and this includes housing assistance for survivors of domestic violence. She led the Council to pass a new law to provide survivors of domestic, sexual, and gender-based violence with low-barrier microgrants to maintain safe and stable housing. Every year, Adrienne and the Council have fought for the funding for this program to be implemented and benefit more victims in need of assistance. As mayor, she will baseline increased funding for the program, at least $6 million each year. Adrienne will also add baselined funding of at least $1.5 million for the HOME+ program that provides survivors with free and confidential security resources to safely remain in their homes.
Invest in Supportive Housing (15/15 + JISH)
As part of the City for All plan Adrienne negotiated, she secured $137M in new capital funding for supportive housing. She will ensure this funding is paired with reforms that sustain supportive housing units and increase their accessibility, aggressively shifting the City to employ a “housing first” approach that eases the burdensome application process and has proven successful in reducing homelessness. Adrienne will also invest more, starting with an additional $100 million, to continue sustaining 15/15 supportive housing units and prioritizing Justice-Involved Supportive Housing (JISH) to reduce recidivism.
Strengthen Program Moving New Yorkers from Shelters to Vacant Apartments
Adrienne will ensure the successful implementation and expansion of the City’s new program to renovate chronically vacant rent stabilized apartments and move New Yorkers from shelters into them with CityFHEPS housing vouchers.
Stabilize and Support Right to Counsel
As Speaker, Adrienne fought to secure an additional $46 million for legal service providers, including Right to Counsel which provides legal representation for New Yorkers in housing court to avoid evictions. She will build on this commitment by securing greater funding and partnering with legal service providers to address the challenges that prevent them from helping tenants, with greater funding and stronger partnership.
Protect Tenants from Harassment and Support Organizing
As part of her City for All plan, Adrienne secured approximately $9 million to restore the City’s Anti-Harassment Tenant Protection program and increase support for the Partners in Preservation program that helps tenants organize and receive support. As Mayor, she will continue to prioritize these programs with steady and increased investments, rather than subjecting them to budget cuts that the current mayor has employed and she fought to reverse.
Support Enforcement of Housing Discrimination
Adrienne secured increased funding in the city budget and through City for All for the City’s Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) to enforce housing discrimination laws. Instead of starving the agency like the current mayor has done, she will prioritize ensuring CCHR has the capacity to protect New Yorkers from housing discrimination, such as source-of-income, that impedes the use of housing vouchers, to ensure New Yorkers can access homes.
Expand Capacity at HPD + Invest in Tech Systems
Adrienne already secured $50 million to upgrade outdated systems and add staff to enforce housing laws and fast-track housing projects as part of her City for All. This was pivotal to address the backlogs and delays resulting from the current mayor’s weakening of city agencies. She will ensure key agencies, like the Department of Housing Preservation and Development are funded and staffed appropriately to confront the housing crisis. She will invest another $50 to speed up approvals and new housing starts.
Add Resources at DCP to Speed Up Neighborhood Plans
Adrienne will expand DCP’s capacity with $15M in new funding so neighborhood planning can move faster and deliver more results with communities.
Adrienne Adams is a public servant, mother, Queens girl and she is running for Mayor of New York City. No drama, no nonsense – just competence and integrity. Support her campaign by making a contribution online today here.
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