据卡梅伦·福齐报道，市长佐赫兰·曼达尼确定了纽约市12个地区，这些地区的可负担住房项目将有资格进入更快的审批流程，其中包括曼哈顿富裕的上西城和上东区。
Zohran Mamdani identified a dozen parts of New York City where affordable housing projects will be eligible for a faster approval process, including Manhattan’s affluent Upper West Side and Upper East Side.
曼达尼政府设定目标，未来十年在全市建设20万套新的可负担住房。该政府周四表示，之所以选择这些地区，是因为近年来这些地区在建设可负担住房方面进展落后。
The Mamdani administration, which has set a goal of building 200,000 new affordable homes in the city over the next decade, said Thursday that the districts were chosen because they had lagged in producing affordable housing in recent years.
“可负担住房快速通道”旨在加快这些社区项目的审批流程。该措施将于1月生效，覆盖皇后区的艾姆赫斯特、布鲁克林的卡纳斯里以及史泰登岛南岸等地区。它将绕过正常流程中的部分环节，包括市议会审查，目标是将审批时间从7个月缩短至3个月。
The Affordable Housing Fast Track seeks to speed up the approval process for project in those neighborhoods. It takes effect in January and covers areas such as Elmhurst in Queens, Canarsie in Brooklyn and South Shore in Staten Island. It bypasses parts of the normal process, including City Council’s review, with the goal of cutting approval times to three months from seven.
此举是市长为缓解全市住房短缺而采取的更大努力的一部分，措施包括增加住房供应。
The move is part of the mayor’s larger effort to address the city’s housing shortage by bolstering the supply of homes.
曼达尼在一份声明中表示：“我们将建设——一个街区一个街区、一个社区一个社区地——达到这场危机所要求的规模。”
“We are going to build – block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood — at the scale this crisis demands,” Mamdani said in a statement.
据该声明，市长办公室通过分析过去五年的全市住房开发情况，确定了这些社区。市长分析显示，2021年7月市长办公室重点关注的上东区一部分约有14万套住房，未来五年将新增150套可负担住房。
The mayor’s office identified the neighborhoods through a citywide analysis of housing development in the last five years, according to the statement. In July 2021, the part of the Upper East Side highlighted by the mayor’s office had about 140,000 housing units and produced 150 affordable units over the next five years, according to the mayor’s analysis.