{"id":258517,"date":"2026-06-07T21:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258517\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:44:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-power-politics-mamdanis-affordable-housing-plan-free-inspections-rollout-ny-7-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258517\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Power Politics Mamdanis Affordable Housing Plan Free Inspections Rollout Ny 7 Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New York City&#8217;s housing crisis is in focus as mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani unveils a plan to build 400,000 affordable housing units over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The proposal comes amid ongoing concerns about vacant rent-stabilized apartments across the city.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 spoke with Kenny Burgos, CEO of the New York Apartment Association, who says thousands of units remain empty due to current policies that limit repairs and renovations.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">City officials say they are working to support homeowners.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Department of NYC Buildings Commissioner Ahmed Tigani announced free, no-penalty home inspections available through July 10 via 311, aimed at connecting low-income homeowners with city resources.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Meeting the candidates for New York\u2019s 7th Congressional District: Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and Claire Valdez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City&#8217;s housing crisis is in focus as mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani unveils a plan to build&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-258517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258517","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=258517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}