New York desperately needs more housing; as much as 800,000 new housing units. The housing needs to be inclusive – racially and economically – and it needs to be widely distributed across Long Island – not focused on only a few communities. ERASE Racism has, therefore, created an Affordable and Inclusive Housing Tool, a free interactive mapping tool designed specifically to identify places in New York State where affordable housing is especially scarce.

Essential to building affordable housing quickly is modernizing the State Environmental Quality Review Act. SEQRA was enacted in 1975 and is now a bottleneck that unnecessarily delays and blocks affordable housing and other needed infrastructure. ERASE Racism, therefore, supports Governor Hochul’s pursuit of SEQRA reforms that would, as she says, “expedite critical categories of projects that have been consistently found to not have adverse environmental impacts.”