Queens Borough President Donovan Richards has modified his stance on the massive $2 billion Innovation QNS in Astoria just a day before the project goes before the City Council for its first public hearing at City Hall.
Richards ruled against the proposal in August citing affordability concerns, but his role in the city’s public review process is advisory while the City Council can kill the project altogether.
“With Queens in the throes of a housing crisis and asylum seekers by the thousands being directed into our homeless shelters instead of housing, now is the time for real solutions, not rhetoric,” Richards said Tuesday. “By creating 1,100 new affordable units in a community where affordable housing is essentially nonexistent, we must seize this opportunity to set a new standard when it comes to securing critical public benefits from private development. I encourage all involved in this process to not let this opportunity slip away.”
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