Posted on: March 02, 2026 02:00 PM

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So many affordable housing projects in NYC

Hands down Queens continue to build affordable housing for all where rent goes an average of $3,000 easily not including utilities.

As part of the program, a small portion is allocated for income restricted units from paying property taxes making the developers rich and richer who fund the local government.

Today more proposals were submitted forth in Queens.

Here are some of the listings.

75 new homes, including 20 income-restricted ones, in Murray Hill, Flushing near the Broadway LIRR station. Northern Blvd from Flushing to Jackson Heights is the next goldmine under developmental planning.

Long Island City continues to expand with rezoning and 11 more Babylon like towers all go.

Meanwhile, the Mayor went to the White House with a proposal for housing in Sunnyside Yards which is not a neighborhood but to transform the massive rail yard into 12,000 housing units with half which will be Mitchell-Lama-style homes asking for $21 billion in federal funds. This means each unit will cost $1.75 million when the market rate is $400,000. The rest of the money nobody knows where it goes. If President Trump approves, this will be the biggest housing project in NYC since 1973.

With Prop 4 passed by 58-42 in the NYC Council, the City Council has the final say on affordable housing. However, today many members of the City Council are blocking the Sunnyside project.

Another meeting between POTUS and the Mayor is scheduled in the coming weeks.