Ex-LI officials share thoughts on housing, political landscape

BY BRANDON DUFFY

Former Long Island officials spoke Wednesday night on a number of pertinent issues in the state during an education forum with the Long Island Builders Institute.

The institute held a “State of Politics” discussion for their members at The Bristal in Jericho, including former Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and former U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi of the state’s 3rd Congressional District, two Democrats, and former state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and former state Sen. Michael Venditto, two Republicans.

Venditto filled in for Peter King, who was recovering from surgery to remove a malignant tumor.

Formed in 1941, LIBI’s members build most of the at least 5,000 new homes produced in Long Island annually, according to their website. The event showed LIBI members how to “understand the politics involved in how governments work and how it makes decisions,” CEO Mike Florio said in a statement.

The four said they disagreed with Gov. Kathy Hochul’s original housing compact for Long Island which was removed from the executive budget while suggesting different ideas on fixing the

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Hochul’s plan called for a 3% increase in housing units over three years, the possibility of the state stepping in if the 3% goal was not met and the use of transit-oriented developments to achieve that objective. The plan was intended to address a shortage of 800,000 housing units in the New York metropolitan area.

“The only way you really get housing done is you have to incentivize it, promote homeownership and promote subsidies,” Flanagan said. “It was wellintended but I don’t think it was good for Long Island.”