With a little more than a week left in office, the Adams administration released recommendations for ramping up housing construction in Manhattan. The mayor’s office on Monday released the so-called Manhattan Plan, laying out six “key themes” for increasing housing construction in Manhattan. Those themes include building near transit and job centers, upzoning mid-density districts to allow more housing, building on government-owned sites, encouraging development on vacant or underutilized private sites, streamlining approval processes and exploring new models of housing. Mayor Eric Adams first announced the Manhattan Plan during his State of the City address in January. At the time, […]
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