Yay Yimby, nay bad landlords.
On Tuesday, back-to-back announcements delivered those two messages. The Mamdani administration released the dates for the five “rental ripoff” hearings, and then appeared at a rally to celebrate Gov. Kathy Hochul’s “Let Them Build” agenda, to support her proposal to reform the State Environmental Quality Review Act, or SEQRA.
During the press conference, Mamdani lamented the years that environmental review can tack onto a project’s timeline.
“Two years just to get through the environmental review on the project,” Mamdani said. “After that, you don’t even get to start building. That’s just when the actual approval process can begin.”…