Gov. Kathy Hochul confirmed on Thursday that the growth mandates which anchored her housing plan this year will not be part of her agenda going into the new legislative session in January.
A controversial requirement to build housing every three years by certain percentages for areas upstate and downstate was the centerpiece of Hochul’s plan to construct 800,000 units of new housing over a decade — “The New York Housing Compact” — that she unveiled last session. But the mandates were widely unpopular with suburban state legislators and ultimately tanked much of Hochul’s proposal.
