Mamdani backs off campaign promise, announces new affordable housing initiative in Brooklyn

Zohran Mamdani seeks to halt NYC Housing Voucher expansion despite campaign promise

Mayor Mamdani has defended the move by emphasizing the city’s deteriorating financial outlook. According to his administration, the proposed expansion could cost up to $10 billion over the next five years.

Mamdani moves to block NYC housing vouching program: 'It feels like betrayal'

A political clash is intensifying at City Hall as Mayor Zohran Mamdani seeks to block the expansion of New York City’s housing voucher program, despite previously pledging to support it.

Mamdani backs off campaign promise, announces new affordable housing initiative in Brooklyn

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is backing off a major campaign promise on affordable housing as the city faces a multi-billion dollar budget gap.

Zohran Mamdani fights $10B NYC housing voucher expansion in U-turn from campaign promise

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is continuing the legacy of his predecessor Eric Adams by formally appealing a City Council-led expansion of the Big Apple's housing voucher program -- a reverse of a campaign promise.

Mamdani backtracks on rental voucher expansion

(The Center Square) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is walking back a key campaign pledge to drop the city's opposition to a massive expansion of a taxpayer-funded rental voucher program.

Mamdani Administration Launches Fast-Track Program to Speed Affordable Housing on City Land

NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on Tuesday announced a new initiative aimed at accelerating the development of affordable housing on city-owned land, introducing a streamlined approval process intended to cut project timelines by more than two years. The program, called the Neighborhood Builders Fast Track, will pre-qualify developers and shorten the request-for-proposals […]