{"id":40467,"date":"2026-05-16T15:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=40467"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:34:18","slug":"mamdani-administration-releases-speed-reforms-to-deliver-affordable-housing-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/40467","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani Administration releases \u201cSPEED\u201d reforms to deliver affordable housing faster"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEWYORK: Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, Deputy Mayor Leila Bozorg and Deputy Mayor Julia Kerson released the\u00a0streamlining procedures to expedite equitable development (SPEED) report, a sweeping set of reforms to deliver affordable housing faster across New York City.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reforms target every stage of the development process, including pre-development, permitting and lease-up, and will cut timelines for all affordable housing projects by eight months. For projects that require a zoning change, the reforms will reduce timelines by as much as two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese delays are not inevitable. They are the result of broken systems and a failure of political will,\u201d said\u00a0Mayor Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Yorkers cannot afford to wait years for affordable housing while projects sit trapped in bureaucracy. SPEED is about making government deliver \u2013 faster, fairer and at the scale this crisis demands.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur administration is tackling the housing crisis with the urgency that New Yorkers deserve. With these investments and procedural changes, we will cut months or even years off of the affordable housing development timeline \u2013 months that New Yorkers can spend in permanent housing instead of instability,\u201d said\u00a0Leila Bozorg, Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m grateful for the work of the SPEED Task Force, agency partners, and everyone who helped identify ways to build a more effective government.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis administration is clear-eyed in our mission to prove that government can deliver quickly and at scale,\u201d said\u00a0Deputy Mayor for Operations Julia Kerson.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether overhauling permitting through SPEED or pursuing Alternative Delivery contracting, we’re slashing project timelines in half. Faster, more efficient execution means more families in homes and better outcomes for New Yorkers across all five boroughs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the housing crisis impacting New Yorkers every day, we must do everything we can to deliver affordable homes more quickly \u2014 and streamlining regulations through SPEED will help us do exactly that,\u201d said\u00a0Department of City Planning Director Sideya Sherman.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy reducing the pre-certification timeline for many projects from two years to six months, we will get shovels in the ground and New Yorkers into homes faster \u2014 while maintaining a fair and thorough review process. These commonsense reforms are a critical part of our broader effort to meet the urgency of the moment and build a more equitable and affordable New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur housing crisis demands that we move faster.\u202fThe SPEED report lays out a vision for overhauling our affordable housing lease-up process that will significantly improve the timeline and user-experience for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who rely on the Housing Connect lottery system. By cutting application approval times in half \u2014 to under 100 days \u2014 families can move in sooner,\u201d said\u00a0Dina Levy, Commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation & Development.<\/p>\n

\u201cTogether with permitting and development changes, we\u2019re cutting 8 months off the timeline from inception to move-in day. This will help us get more families into affordable housing faster, making a real difference for thousands of New Yorkers. We won\u2019t let red tape and outdated systems stand between families and the affordable housing they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the face of the ongoing affordability crisis and the city\u2019s anemic rental vacancy rate, this administration must continue to be unapologetically pro-housing,\u201d said\u00a0Buildings Commissioner Ahmed Tigani.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mayor\u2019s SPEED report is a comprehensive blueprint that will unlock strategies to facilitate the efficient and safe construction of more badly needed housing for New York City families. More than just reshaping the development process so that we are responsive to the challenges of construction while taking advantage of new opportunities, today\u2019s announcement sends a message to the industry that the five boroughs are the best place to plan their next building project.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are proud to be part of this whole of government response to tackle the housing crisis with creativity, urgency and bold initiative,\u201d said\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Social Services Commissioner Erin Dalton.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are cutting the red tape, reducing administrative burdens, and collaborating with key stakeholders to streamline processes and expedite connections to deeply affordable housing for vulnerable New Yorkers. We applaud the Mamdani Administration\u2019s commitment to creating affordable housing at an unprecedented speed and scale by leaving no stone unturned to create efficiencies across agencies and prioritizing the needs of housing insecure New Yorkers across the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

The SPEED reforms will make City processes faster and more accountable across four stages of development: environmental review and planning; pre-development and financing; permitting and approvals; and marketing and lease-up.<\/p>\n

As a part of the overhaul, the administration will cut the \u201cpre-certification\u201d process for many projects requiring zoning changes from roughly two years to six months. The City will also reduce the permitting timelines for both new construction and office-to-residential conversion projects by approximately five months.<\/p>\n

To move New Yorkers into completed affordable housing more quickly, the City will also overhaul the City\u2019s housing lottery system. The Mamdani administration will implement immediate improvements while building a more flexible long-term system that is fair, transparent and easier to navigate.<\/p>\n

The reforms will cut the time between construction completion and move-in in half \u2013 from 210 days to fewer than 100 days.<\/p>\n

The reforms were developed by the SPEED Task Force, which Mayor Mamdani created by executive order his first day in office. The Task Force held roundtables with more than 100 industry experts, advocates, developers, builders and trade organizations and received more than 500 recommendations that informed the final reforms.<\/p>\n

None of the reforms require legislative action or change the City\u2019s discretionary approval process for projects.<\/p>\n

These reforms build on additional housing initiatives launched by the administration, including the City\u2019s first-ever Expedited Land Use Review Procedure (ELURP) and the Neighborhood Builders Fast Track program. Together, those initiatives will reduce the pre-development timelines for affordable housing projects by more than two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEWYORK: Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, Deputy Mayor Leila Bozorg and Deputy Mayor Julia Kerson released the\u00a0streamlining procedures to expedite equitable development (SPEED) report, a sweeping set of reforms to deliver affordable housing faster across New York City. The reforms target every stage of the development process, including pre-development, permitting and lease-up, and will cut timelines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40472,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40467\/revisions\/40472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}