Mayor Eric Adams Announces Plans to Convert NYC Offices Into 20,000 Apartments

Mayor Eric Adams Announces Plans to Convert NYC Offices Into 20,000 Apartments
New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks onstage during NYC & Company Foundation Visionaries & Voices Gala at The Plaza Hotel in New York on Dec. 5, 2022. Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for NYC & Company Foundation
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Mayor Eric Adams on Monday unveiled plans to convert vacant office space in New York City into new apartments to help relieve the city’s affordable housing crisis.

Following the recommendations in a report from a city-led task force that was established in July of 2022, the mayor is making 11 recommendations that would make changes to state laws and city zoning requirements to ease regulations across 136 million square feet of office space.