Gov. Andrew M. Cuomos budget this year calls for more state control over the financing of affordable housing, a move that New York City officials and affordable housing representatives say would slow and undermine efforts to build and maintain such units for low-income New Yorkers.
Cuomo administration officials had said the new state oversight would add more transparency to a system that funnels $2 billion a year to finance housing and economic development around the state. A senior budget official referred to a report by the research group Citizens Housing Planning Council that called for more coordination between the state and local governments and more publicly reported data on how bonds are allocated and used.
But Jerilyn Perine, the groups executive director, said the report called for more conversations among officials and more information to be made available on housing agency websites.
“We were not talking at all about additional government bureaucracy,” she said.
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