Sanchez frames COPA as response to deteriorating housing stock
Sanchez says New York City faces a profound housing crisis beyond the need to build more, pointing to failing infrastructure, dangerous conditions, and buildings trapped in speculation, disinvestment, and neglect. She argues the city cannot build its way out while existing affordable housing falls apart.
New York City is in a profound housing crisis, and while we rightly talk about our desperate need to build more, we cannot ignore another crisis that is unfolding inside the homes we already have, the deterioration of our existing housing stock.
Across our city, tenants are living with failing infrastructure, dangerous conditions, and buildings caught in cycles of speculation, disinvestment, and neglect.
Our city cannot build our way out of this crisis while allowing the affordable housing that we already have to fall apart.