City of Yes for Families

Too many families struggle to make rent or purchase a home in New York City. That’s why NYC is launching City of Yes for Families, a muti-pronged initiative to help families to live and thrive across the boroughs.

It includes family-friendly zoning proposals to make it easier to co-locate housing and schools, increase access to fresh, healthy food via the Food Retail Expansion Program to Support Health (FRESH), enhance the Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS) program to encourage the creation of more playgrounds and public spaces, and improve the accessibility of public transit stations.

City of Yes for Families also includes non-zoning measures to create more family-sized income-restricted affordable homes, help families make a downpayment on a home, make it easier to add an accessory dwelling unit to their property, and count rental payments towards credit history.

The initiative is being launched in 2025, and more details will be announced soon; stay tuned.