Affordable Housing

The cost of renting or buying a home in New York is the highest it has ever been, with many New Yorkers being priced out of the neighborhoods that they grew up in. On Staten Island alone, median rent has risen 42% over the past decade, from $1,208 in 2015 to $1,718 in 2024. On the North Shore of Staten Island, the fastest growing part of the island, over 50% are rent burdened. It deeply hurts our families, who spend over 30% of their incomes on rent.

Omar will fight to expand affordable housing in our community by working with city and local partners on building more stock, but by working to lower home insurance costs that make it more expensive for small landlords to rent their units.