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Land use committee seeks rezoning accountability, rent-regulation data and loft-conversion records to track displacement
Summary
The committee asked city agencies to study Hudson Square’s rezoning effects, add SoHo/NoHo to that review, and press DCP/HPD/Department of Finance for a non-granular rent-regulated dataset. Members also discussed Loft Law conversion records and recommended programmatic analysis and a planner budget to audit self-certification processes.
Manhattan Community Board 2’s Land Use & Housing Committee on Oct. 15 directed staff to pursue multiple studies and data requests aimed at measuring whether recent rezonings have produced the housing outcomes the city expected and at tracking displacement.
The committee asked that a study of the Hudson Square rezoning’s effectiveness be carried out and that the SoHo–NoHo rezoning be added to that scope to capture displacement trends and whether promised housing outcomes materialized. Eugene Yu, chair of the committee, said members want the studies framed to measure "if rezoning goals are being met — particularly housing production and affordable units — rather than producing only office or commercial development."
Data request: The committee discussed a standing request for a dataset of…
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