NYU Furman Center Fall Policy Breakfast

Join the NYU Furman Center for a Policy Breakfast panel event:

On the Ballot: New York City’s Charter Revision Commission Proposals

Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2025 

Time: 8:45 - 10:00 AM ET

NYU School of Law - Vanderbilt Hall

40 Washington Square South

New York, NY 10012

Doors open at 8:15 AM. Continental breakfast will be served.

New York City registered voters will have the opportunity to weigh in this November on two affordable housing ballot measures proposed by the New York Charter Revision Commission to help expedite housing production to meet growing demand. 

The Commission proposed in its July final report five ballot measures, including three questions that would impact housing in New York City:

1. The first question to “Fast Track Affordable Housing” proposes two changes to the city’s review process for affordable housing projects. The first proposed amendment would allow the City’s Board of Standards and Appeals to provide waivers to Housing Development Fund Corporations (HDFCs) for zoning relief using a shorter process than now applies. The second, building on the passage of the New York City Council’s Fair Housing Framework, would propose a new, accelerated review process, called the “Affordable Housing Fast Track,” for projects in the 12 community districts that produced a lower share of affordable housing over a five year period. 
2. The second question on the ballot would create an “Expedited Land Use Review Procedure,” which streamlines the timing for certain review periods for eligible projects. 
3. The third question on the ballot would establish an “Affordable Housing Appeals Board,” consisting of the applicable Borough President, the Mayor, and the Speaker of the City Council, which would have the power to reverse City Council decisions on land use applications. 

Please join us for an informative conversation about the housing proposals on the ballot this November and to learn how these initiatives would impact housing production in critically important underdeveloped New York City neighborhoods.  

Panel
Anita Laremont, Charter Revision Commission Member and Partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Layla Law-Gisiko, President, City Club of New York

Mark Levine, Manhattan Borough President 

David N. Schleicher, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law, Yale Law School

Moderator
Vicki Been, Judge Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law, NYU School of Law, and Co-Faculty Director, NYU Furman Center 

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