Issue Position: Affordable Housing

Issue Position

Central Brooklyn is the epicenter of New York's affordability crisis, with rising rents pushing families out of the communities they call home. Zellnor will fight to repeal the Urstadt Law, which caps rent-stabilization in NYC and allows Republicans outside of the city to determine housing policy for those in his district. He's also committed to ending vacancy decontrol, which gives landlords an incentive to push out long-term residents, and to closing the preferential rent loophole, which allows for sudden and unexpected rent increases. Zellnor will also push for the use of neighborhood median income when determining affordability levels for new developments, rather than the current system that skews this calculation by lumping together all of New York City and including wealthy suburbs.

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