Housing to take center stage in Albany in 2024 — again
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As the state’s budget deadline approaches, Queens democratic lawmakers are at odds over whether it should include a path for legalizing the city’s basement and cellar apartments.
While Gov. Kathy Hochul included a pathway to basement legalization in her February budget proposal, the word 'cellar' is absent from her plan. The two terms may be indistinguishable to most property owners, but they're different under zoning and dwelling laws, and excluding cellars from the state's plan would omit a significant swath of below-grade housing stock from potential conversion, advocates say.