Mayor Eric Adams is doubling down on his administration’s goal to provide supportive housing for New Yorkers.
Adams plans to build 6,000 congregate apartments — low-priced units with on-site health, mental health and substance abuse services — as part of his 2026 budget proposal, City & State New York reported.
The city plans to spend $46 million over the next few fiscal years to deliver the apartments. Roughly 4,500 of the units will be new, while another 1,300 are already built but need preservation work.
The administration plans to announce other details about the proposal on Monday. Those include additional housing-related initiatives like an extra $350 million for repairs and renovations at New York City Housing Authority units and $7.6 million geared toward legal services for tenants who have been harassed by their landlords.
Once released, Adams’ budget will head to the City Council, where it needs approval by the end of June.
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio put supportive housing on the city’s agenda in 2015, when he set a goal of creating 15,000 units by the end of 2030 under a measure known as the 15/15 Supportive Housing Initiative. Adams later took up the mantle, pushing the deadline up to 2028. At the time, the city had about 32,000 supportive housing units.
The city’s plan includes two types of supportive housing, congregate apartments and scattered site units — designated apartments in privately-owned buildings used to house individuals in need of supportive services, but who access those services at other locations.
Adams is on track to exceed its benchmark for congregate units, though it appears to be falling behind on the 7,500 scattered site units target. A spokesperson for the administration told City & State they weren’t able to provide updated data on the number of scattered site units built, though Politico reported that less than 1,100 had been created as of last spring.
— Sheridan Wall
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