Brooklyn affordable housing plans lag

Four years after allowing luxury condos to be built on the
Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfront, the city has yet to complete
1,345
affordable housing units that were promised at the time of rezoning.
Only one affordable building on Herbert Street with 14 units is under
construction, and more than 2,700 people have requested applications
for the units. Seth Donlin, a spokesperson
for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, said that
the delay
is due to numerous unforeseen obstacles, including problems finding a
new location
for a sludge tank that occupies one of the proposed building sites.
Evan Theis, a candidate for
City Council, said this is just another failure on the city’s part to
build
city-owned and managed affordable units on city-owned lots.