New York's current building code is outdated and excessively expensive, serving as a primary obstacle to affordable housing and infrastructure development.

“what gets uh talked about much less is even if a piece of land is perfectly zoned, it is still hard to get the math work because the minute you hit dirt, particularly in New York with the complexities of the building code and the gold-plated nature and the outdated and so on and so forth, it it is i”