Here's How Mamdani Voted On Affordable Housing Ballot Proposals

NEW YORK CITY — After dodging questions about the six ballot proposals during his campaign, Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani told reporters Tuesday morning he was voting "yes" on the affordable housing proposals on the ballot, according to several reports.

This year, the six ballot questions span several civic issues but the main focus is on changing bureaucratic processes around building affordable housing and development.

Two of these ballot questions ask if voters would let the city fast-track certain development approval processes, and the third would add a governing board to vote on affordable housing development applications.

Essentially, these proposals would expedite affordable housing, but reduce the City Council’s influence over such decisions, and change the power balance in City Hall.

"I think we need to urgently build more housing … across the five boroughs," Mamdani said to Gothamist on Election Day. "And we also need to ensure that that housing is high quality, creating high-quality union jobs."

The rest of the ballot proposals are more of a grab-bag, including one about building an olympic stadium on a state-owned park, and another about moving city election dates to align with the presidential election cycle. There's also a question asking voters if the city should make a digital city map of New York to streamline operations.

To read Patch's explainer on each question, click here.

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