Mayor Eric Adams (D) made housing one of his main priorities at his 2023 State of the City speech along with jobs, care, and safety and quality of life.
During the State of the State, Governor Kathy Hochul announced the New York Housing Compact, a statewide strategy to increase housing supply and combat exclusionary zoning, with the goal of producing 800,000 new homes over the next decade.
Mayor Eric Adams announced new proposals to address the housing crisis and set a “moonshot” goal of meeting the need for 500,000 new homes over the next decade.
The Illinois Housing Council released its annual housing progress report, which found that Illinois has the eighth highest deficit of homes nationally and that deficit has grown nearly 64 percent in the last ten years.