If elected as the next city Comptroller, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine wants to go beyond the basics of the fiscal watchdog post with his own plan to tackle the city’s sprawling affordable housing crisis.
Levine’s proposal, which his campaign shared exclusively with amNewYork Metro ahead of its Wednesday release, would use the municipal pension fund system, which is managed by the comptroller’s office, to help finance building and preserving as many as 75,000 affordable units over the next decade.
