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To confront the state’s housing crisis, Hochul proposed in her State of the State address Tuesday a plan dubbed the “New York Housing Compact,” which will require every town, city and village in the state to set a target number of new homes to create over a three-year period.
Housing rights groups are petitioning the governor to couple her call for building more units with a slate of bills that would help keep tenants in their apartments amid rising rents and provide assistance to those facing the frightening possibility of homelessness.