Learn the Truth About Proposals
on Your 2025 Ballot
In the coming election, New York City voters will decide the fate of several ballot questions.
These include Mayor Adams’ so-called housing Proposals 2, 3 and 4, which have misleading descriptions that hide their real impact: to take away your power.
Don’t simply rely on Mayor Adams’ misleading language when you vote – learn how they take away your community’s power and inform your neighbors.
What These Proposals Do
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A statewide proposal to change the State Constitution, allowing an Olympic Sports Complex on State Forest Preserve Land in the upstate New York Adirondack region.
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Mayor Adams’ proposal takes away communities’ power to ensure housing is more affordable and meets the needs of local residents by eliminating the vote of their elected representatives on certain proposed development within neighborhoods.
It would transfer approval power for these developments within city neighborhoods to unelected appointees, primarily chosen by the mayor.
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Mayor Adams’ proposal takes away communities’ power by eliminating the vote of their elected representatives on certain proposed development within neighborhoods.
It would transfer approval power for these developments within city neighborhoods to unelected appointees, primarily chosen by the mayor.
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Mayor Adams’ proposal takes away communities’ power to ensure proposed development includes more affordable housing and investments to support the needs of their neighborhoods, like parks, public transit, and schools.
It allows the votes of New Yorkers’ City Council representatives to be overruled on development within their neighborhoods, even when they have improved an initial proposal to ensure new housing better meets residents’ needs.
The mayor and a borough president could overturn votes of the City Council, including those that deliver more affordable housing and community benefits than initially proposed.
This would give the City and developers significantly more power to disregard the needs of neighborhoods by undermining their ability to negotiate for more affordable housing and community benefits.
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Mayor Adams’ proposal to consolidate and digitize the City Map, which is currently decentralized by borough and on paper.
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Mayor Adams’ proposal to move local elections from currently being held during odd-numbered years to even-numbered years that coincide with federal presidential elections.
Your Power Could Be Taken Away by Mayor Adams’ Misleading Ballot Proposals 2, 3, and 4
Giving away your community’s power to developers will lead to housing that is less affordable for our neighborhoods.
LESS AFFORDABILITY
Mayor Adams’ Proposals 2-4 eliminate New Yorkers’ power to fight for more affordable housing in neighborhood development.
LESS INVESTMENT
Mayor Adams’ Proposals 2-4 weaken communities’ power, giving developers and the mayor even more power to ignore our neighborhood needs.
MORE GENTRIFICATION
Mayor Adams’ Proposals 2-4 take away the public’s power, leaving our communities weaker to fight irresponsible development and gentrification.
Why This Matters
For 35 years, New Yorkers have relied on the City Council, as the only democratically elected body with the power to vote on development projects, to ensure communities have a voice with real power.
This has delivered deeper affordability in new housing and secured investments that strengthen neighborhoods across the city, such as schools, childcare centers, parks, public transit improvements, infrastructure upgrades, and tenant protections.
