{"id":139676,"date":"2026-02-20T04:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139676\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:52:13","slug":"hochul-and-mamdani-should-take-this-heresy-and-run-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139676\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul and Mamdani should take this ‘heresy’ and run with it"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s support, Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing to ease New York\u2019s environmental-review law<\/a> to make it faster and cheaper to build housing and public works in the Empire State \u2014 which is great, but why not fix this quagmire for all builders?<\/p>\n

Seizing on Mamdani\u2019s push for \u201caffordability\u201d<\/a> and less-expensive housing, Hochul is offering a new \u201cLet Them Build\u201d push to reform the State Environmental Quality Review Act, or SEQRA, to allow for faster, and therefore cheaper, construction.<\/p>\n

Construction projects in New York take far longer than in other states to move from concept to construction \u2014 which causes costs to escalate; the Citizens Budget Commission<\/a> estimates that regulatory red tape can add up to $82,000 per housing unit in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n

To his credit, Mamdani (along with the state Association of Counties, Association of Towns and Conference of Mayors) came out in support for Hochul\u2019s push \u2014 even though \u201cderegulation\u201d is anathema to so much of the left.<\/p>\n

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But the gov\u2019s being too cautious: Everyone who wants to build should get the same relief; it\u2019s be a boost to the statewide economy the gov says she wants to improve. <\/p>\n

Mamdani, for his part, should start looking at how deregulation could boost affordability all across the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s support, Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing to ease New York\u2019s environmental-review law to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[433,304,2907,426,9,24,63,299,122,124,123,5913,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-139676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-affordable-housing","9":"tag-editorial","10":"tag-housing","11":"tag-kathy-hochul","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-opinion","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-queens-headlines","18":"tag-queens-news","19":"tag-regulation","20":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}