NEWYORK: Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning Leila Bozorg released the Land Inventory Fast Track (LIFT) Tracker, an interactive tool that gives New Yorkers their first comprehensive look at the administration’s pipeline of affordable housing on publicly owned land.
The tracker maps more than 100 City-owned sites across the five boroughs that will deliver more than 50,000 new homes, making it easier for New Yorkers to follow the City’s progress in bringing new housing online.
LIFT also highlights opportunities to pair new housing with public amenities, including libraries and other neighborhood services.
The Mamdani administration will maintain an aggressive pace of affordable housing development on City-owned land, issuing requests for proposals (RFPs) for five or more new sites each year.
Developing housing on City land is a central part of the Mayor’s Block by Block housing plan, which charts a path to create 200,000 new affordable homes over the next decade while investing in public housing, preserving existing affordable homes, strengthening tenant protections and expanding homeownership opportunities.
“Too many New Yorkers are being priced out of their homes. We have a responsibility to use every tool we have to build the affordable housing our city needs. The LIFT tracker brings transparency to that work and makes clear that City-owned land is not sitting idle—it is becoming homes, libraries and community space across the five boroughs,” said Mayor Mamdani.
“On his first day in office, Mayor Mamdani charged us with exploring how we can best use City-owned land to deliver the housing that New Yorkers need – and we are delivering. We have already taken tangible steps forward on more than a dozen projects on public land that will create more than 5,000 new homes, and we are bringing unprecedented public transparency and engagement into this project with the release of the new LIFT tracker,” said Leila Bozorg, Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning.
“We’ll continue our work to advance housing on public sites across the five boroughs, using every tool at our disposal to speed up these projects and identify creative ways to maximize our resources.”
Since taking office, Mayor Mamdani has moved quickly to accelerate affordable housing production on City-owned land.
