Governor Hochul's budget laid out several proposals for New York Housing crisis including a plan to build 800,000 new homes over the next decade, and $250 million dollars for infrastructure upgrades and improvements to local housing growth and development throughout the state.
"The reality is" said Citizen Action of New York Legislative Director Rebecca Garrard "it did nothing for New Yorkers who are experiencing immediate crisis."
Garrard says the Governor's budget includes long term goals, but what about the thousands of New Yorkers who are experiencing difficulty right now.
"We must have in the immediate tenant protections against rent increases and retaliatory and predatory evictions" said Garrard "so we must have good cause eviction legislation as apart of any housing package that truly addresses the crisis. We know that every sector of the State is impacted by a housing crisis, and really every sector recognizes that the crisis exists."
In Saratoga Springs Mayor Ron Kim says affordable housing is an issue for the City.
"I think we've missed a couple opportunities prior to me getting into office" said Saratoga Springs (D) Mayor Ron Kim "there have been a couple other attempts to locate a shelter and they've all fell by the way side."
Most recently a proposal of placing a low barrier homeless shelter behind the school's Broadway campus has sparked controversy.
Mayor Kim says he plans on having open dialogue with any parents who have concerns, and previously he told CBS 6 news that the city thinks this is the best location for the shelter, but safety will always be top priority.
Kim also says other projects are in the works to address the housing need.
"We have a project on Tait lane that is under construction that's about 200 units that will be affordable housing we have" said Mayor Kim "we also have near Allen drive the housing authority is rehabbing our existing housing stock for affordability."