It Is Time to Start Building Affordable Housing

In another audacious display of dysfunction, Albany’s “three men in a room” are now “three men in three different rooms.”

That is how it appears, as housing advocates across New York wait in vain for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to come to agreement on how to spend about $2 billion for affordable housing development across the state. More than six months have passed, with no sign of resolution.