{"id":208355,"date":"2026-04-24T14:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208355\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:14:19","slug":"n-y-housing-commissioner-discusses-state-budget-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208355\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. housing commissioner discusses state budget proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has been very clear that she wants to prioritize the creation of hundreds of thousands of housing units to address the state&#8217;s housing crisis.<\/p>\n<p>One tool she wants to use to do that is the state&#8217;s Environmental Quality Review Act, or SEQRA. It was created back in the 1970s to ensure an environmental analysis was done before construction projects were started.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Governor views SEQRA as a hindrance to building in some circumstances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Ann Visnauskas, the state commissioner of Homes and Community Renewal, joined Capital Tonight Thursday to discuss the issue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has been very clear that she wants to prioritize the creation of hundreds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,205,2908,109,116,204,202,19662,3242,2907,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-208355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-albany-capital-region","9":"tag-app-capital-tonight","10":"tag-app-housing","11":"tag-app-local-state-politics","12":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","13":"tag-capital-tonight","14":"tag-capital-tonight-interviews","15":"tag-capital-tonight-staff","16":"tag-environment","17":"tag-housing","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-headlines","20":"tag-new-york-news","21":"tag-new-york-state","22":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","23":"tag-new-york-state-news","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","26":"tag-politics","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208355","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=208355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}