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NYC’s fair housing growth strategy

The Fair Housing Growth Strategy will provide communities and policy makers with the figures and framework to understand how neighborhoods working together can address our housing crisis.

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New York City is scarred by a long history of discrimination, segregation, and injustice which have led to uneven development patterns and persistent disparities across our neighborhoods and city.

Additionally, housing costs in New York City have skyrocketed while housing opportunities and quality have declined. New Yorkers who encounter the greatest barriers in the housing market, like voucher users and low-income residents, are hit hardest by these challenges.

Part of the issue is that we don’t have enough housing to meet our growing need. Although certain neighborhoods have added a lot more housing, the city is building too few homes in too few neighborhoods overall.

To address these issues, we must understand the extent of the problem: How much housing does New York City need? And how should we distribute new housing across the city?

In 2023, New York City Council Passed Local Law 167 which mandated the City to create a Fair Housing Framework. The Fair Housing Framework includes two reports which must be published every five years: Where We Live NYC, a comprehensive fair housing plan, and the Fair Housing Growth Strategy, a citywide analysis guiding where and how much housing NYC needs.

With the Fair Housing Growth Strategy, the City is conducting detailed analyses of this kind for the first time. The report consists of three sections:

  1. A long-term Housing Needs Assessment (HNA) which identifies the total number and types of housing units needed to address our housing crisis.
  2. Housing Production Targets (HPT) which recommends distributing new housing development across the city using fair housing principles.
  3. A Strategic Equity Framework (SEF) which assesses the obstacles to fair housing and equitable development and how we can overcome them.

Where We Live New York City's Fair Housing Framework chart

Together, these analyses provide communities and policy makers with the figures and framework to understand how neighborhoods working together can address our housing crisis.

There will be a draft report released in summer 2026, a final report released in fall 2026, and opportunities to weigh in through the summer and fall.

The Fair Housing Growth Strategy is a collaboration between the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development and the NYC Department of City Planning.