Rally with us to show NYC Council and Mayor Adams that most of SEQ,  Queens and Other Communities in NYC are against City of Yes. Organizations getting kickbacks and benefits to side with this proposal are not acting in the best interests of their constituents. 

Join us: Monday, November 25th @ 12:30pm Location: 172-12 Linden Blvd, St Albans, NY

This proposal will NOT make affordable housing, which is needed!!!  City Council must vote against City of Yes, and the City of All proposal, terminate them!  These proposals are not the solution to affordable housing and neither are vouchers.  Most residents in apartments eventually want home ownership, not to be renters. This will do away with home ownership. 

As long-standing members of our cherished New York City neighborhoods, we struggle to recognize the home we've come to know and love. We have been bombarded with migrants and now NYC feels we must carry them, and our young adults, because NYC lacks affordable housing? This is no fault of homeowners. NYC has thousands of empty apartments that should be filled first. Then empty office buildings. Here in SEQ we’ve done our part. High Risers are going up that our council members approved, not making sure that they were affordable. This incompetent behavior will continue, if City of Yes passes. 

Our lives are deeply rooted here, built on the anticipation that we could depend on the charm and density of our beloved city. The City of Yes Housing Proposal threatens to change that picture even more drastically.

The City of Yes and City of All initiatives encourage widespread transformation of single-family homes into multi-dwelling units. This scheme targets not only the fabric of our community but also its socio-economic balance, as it fosters a city of tenants instead of home-owners. We fear this shift will create an unfair advantage for people of color and current residents, inflating the cost of our homes in their quest to convert them into apartment buildings, thus promoting a culture of rentals over homeownership.

In our community, homeownership is not just about a financial investment, but about investing in a way of life, staking a claim in a community that echoes with history, character, and personal connection. Homeownership yields stability and agency—a sense of control over one's own surroundings, that tenant living cannot grant. Yet, both proposals would reduce access to this fundamental aspect of the American dream.

We, therefore, call on New York City Council to End the City of Yes and City of All Housing Proposals. Our beloved neighborhoods should be preserved, not diminished. The charm of our community lies in its intimate, suburbia like, small-scale living arrangements. Displacing current homeowners and discouraging future ownership destroys this cherished part of our lives. Let's stand together and resist this effort to commercialize our homes.

Sign the petition now.

Defend our past, present, and future. Homeownership should not become a distant dream. It's our city, let's ensure it stays that way.

Key Topics

• "One Size Fits All" doesn't work
• Overdevelopment - 500%+ increase
• Corruption & Adams administration
• Replaces owner-occupied housing with market-rate and luxury rental units
• 30 years behind in current infrastructure
• Designed by developers for developers.
• Environmentally catastrophic - replaces green space in yards
• Brings us straight back to the 19th Century •Reverses decades of community-based planning with buy-in from residents
•Takes away review and approval by community boards & council-members which prevents voters from holding them accountable.
•We do not have a housing crisis! We have an affordability crisis which CoYHO won't fix.
• Amending CoYHO will not work, it needs to be voted down.
• Replaces "outdated" with "prehistoric" zoning.

Statistics

• Current zoning, if never changed again, can accommodate 16-20 million people in total.
• NYC has lost 800,000 residents in the past 6 years
• NYC's population is under 8 million for first time in 30 years
• NYC has roughly the same population as it did 1960
• We have 800,000 more residential units than we did in 1960
• 150,000 units were approved in the first 6 months of 2024

For more information, Please check out:  http://save1familyny.org