Abstract
Lower income New York City residents are faced with a housing emergency. Concurrently, commercial and luxury residential development is expanding. New York is considering adopting an approach to the housing shortage which has been taken in several other cities. The plan advocates amendment of the City's zoning ordinance to require developers of commercial and luxury residential projects to provide the City with lower income housing units. This Note examines the proposed requirement that commercial developers provide lower income housing units. It addresses the question of the validity of such a requirement in the context of New York City's statutory authority to use zoning ordinances to place conditions upon proposed development projects. By analogy to the limitations on this authority, this Note recommends a shift in emphasis to bring such a program into compliance with New York law.
Recommended Citation
Carl J. Rossi, Carl J. Rossi, Carl J. Rossi, and Carl J. Rossi,
Zoning New York City to Provide Low and Moderate Income Housing - Can Commercial Developers Be Made to Help?,
12 Fordham Urb. L.J. 491
(1984).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol12/iss3/4