Peck on public restrooms and housing affordability
Peck describes the $4M modular restroom pilot program RFP and EDC's view of housing as essential economic infrastructure, with insurance costs tripling since 2017 driving the need for the city-backed insurance program.
Public restrooms.
In March, I shared that EDC had released the RFP for modular restrooms across
The city to expand access to public bathrooms, one of the mayor's first 100 days commitments.
This $4 million pilot program will make sure that more New Yorkers will have more access to public bathrooms.
Bathrooms are basic public infrastructure and access to them should be easier.
We anticipate an update on the RFP soon.
Housing.
EDC views housing production as an essential economic infrastructure.
Affordable housing enables workers and New Yorkers to live near jobs, to raise their families, build roots in the community.
It supports economic mobility and underpins the neighborhood vitality across the five boroughs.
But today, New York City is facing an existential affordability and housing crisis.
As the mayor has said, New York cannot remain a city of opportunity if the people who make this city run are priced out of it.
At EDC, we're advancing affordable housing development across the city, and that includes going after the structural costs that are driving up the price of housing.
Insurance is one of them, with the price of insurance tripling since 2017.