New York City Council and the Board of Elections are reportedly maneuvering to keep pro‑building charter amendments off the November ballot, sparing incumbents a public fight. Using procedural gateways to prevent voters from weighing in lets anti‑YIMBY forces win without defending the status quo on the merits.
— It spotlights how institutional chokepoints can nullify popular housing reforms, reframing the supply crisis as a governance‑design problem, not just a policy debate.
Halina Bennet
2025.09.10
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NYC’s City Council tried to keep pro‑building charter measures off the November ballot, mirroring the broader tactic of using procedural gateways to stall housing reform; the Board of Elections’ decision to include them underscores how ballot access is a decisive battleground for supply‑side housing policy.
2025.09.09
100% relevant
Eric Kober’s piece citing a New York Times report on the council/BOE effort to sideline charter amendments that would speed construction.
Eric Kober
2025.09.08
95% relevant
The article reports the NYC Council’s letter urging the Board of Elections to reject the mayor’s Charter Revision Commission (CRC) housing amendments from the November ballot, an attempted procedural choke point to preserve council land‑use veto power—exactly the tactic described by this idea.