Has Mayor Eric Adams Built More Affordable Housing Than Bloomberg and de Blasio Combined?

Mayor Adams has surpassed each of his predecessors
individually in terms of new and preserved affordable housing units, but
he has not exceeded their combined total — as he said he did during a press event in July.

According to official city figures,
Adams reports 229,800 affordable homes built or preserved since 2022,
plus 197,000 units planned through rezonings that may take years to
materialize. Bloomberg’s administration produced more than 175,000 units built or preserved in 12 years, and de Blasio’s plan produced about 200,000 in 8 years.

Together, Bloomberg and de Blasio delivered about 375,000
built or preserved units, which is far more than Adams’s current total.
Adams’s claim of 426,800 built, preserved, or planned homes only holds
if planned rezonings are treated as completed housing, which is
misleading since many projects may never break ground, and some began
under previous administrations.