An annual report on the performance of city agencies shows that Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his administration have work to do in order to achieve his lofty goals on key policies, like housing development and childcare.<\/p>\n
Over a 12-month period that ended in June 2026, the city financed 26,913 affordable apartments, the report said. That\u2019s above the city\u2019s target but still nearly 7% down from the prior 12-month period.<\/p>\n
The report covers every city agency over the last six months of the Adams administration and the first six months of the Mamdani administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are new policy tools available to them that the previous administration didn\u2019t have,\u201d said Ben Wetzler of Open New York, a group that advocates for more housing development. \u201cThere\u2019s going to be a huge increase in the amount of affordable housing that the city is going to create. As a result of that, you\u2019re going to see, regardless of whatever is accounting for that small decrease.\u201d<\/p>\n
The administration is targeting 28,000 units by the end of next June, as part of a larger goal to build more than 200,000 new affordable units over 10 years, costing $22 billion.<\/p>\n
Still, the share of projects where applicants were approved within three months shrank to 7%; within six months, it was down to 26%.<\/p>\n
Median time to approve an application increased 26 days over a year, to 236 days.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re seeing those units taking almost a month longer to fill those buildings once they\u2019re done,\u201d Andrew Rein, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, said. \u201cWe have to get people approved, and those buildings filled as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
On early childhood education, Mamdani is trying to reverse a trend of dwindling interest.<\/p>\n
More parents applied for 3-K programs, and the city made over 5% more offers of seats for the 2025 school year that began under Mayor Adams.<\/p>\n
Yet, enrollment declined more than 2% to 43,678 \u2014 a figure that fell below the city\u2019s target. Enrollment also declined for pre-K.<\/p>\n
The report cites declining birth rates, families moving out of the city and lack of outreach from the Adams administration.<\/p>\n
But the number suggests parents were disinterested in taking an offer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did that happen? What did they end up doing instead? That may help inform the city\u2019s areas of focus and outreach moving forward,\u201d Grace Rauh of Citizens Union told NY1.<\/p>\n
The report expects enrollment to improve for this school year that just began under Mayor Mamdani, with more seats added to the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An annual report on the performance of city agencies shows that Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his administration have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[109,25,13408,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,87,27,200],"class_list":["post-350738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-dan-rivoli","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350738","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=350738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}