The Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury was the site of the Long Island Association’s (LIA) State of the Region breakfast, which took place on January 9. Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli spoke at the annual roundtable, where the focus was on affordability and the future of energy.
The first guest speaker, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, addressed those needs. “We all need to improve our downtowns,” he said. “We need to build a better path to homeownership so that the next generation can build their own independent lives. Homeownership is a key to Long Island.”
Blakeman called for the creation of an affordable housing program, but, more importantly, giving control of the local governments. “We need to have local control and smart growth, not the control to be determined up in Albany,” he said…