Support More Housing in the OneLIC Plan

Council Member Julie Won and Queens Borough President Donovan Richards

Photograph from East River looking toward Long Island City with the Queensboro Bridge in the background.
This is a petition of support. A long-neglected part of Long Island City is finally getting some love through the OneLIC plan! OneLIC is an ambitious neighborhood plan that would turn an underutilized part of our neighborhood into a more cohesive part of our community. This means new public spaces, more jobs, and much needed new homes. The LIC community deserves better and this plan can get us there.


What is OneLIC?

New York City is faced with an unprecedented housing crisis, and we need bold solutions to address it.

  • OneLIC could bring more homes to the area, including 4,000 income-restricted affordable homes—several times as many as has been created in the area in the last 10 years.
  • The OneLIC area is next to the most transit-accessible part of Queens and one of the highest concentrations of mass transit infrastructure in the country—the perfect place to build lots of homes.
  • The plan gives us the ability to further expand public access to our well-loved waterfront. These are exactly the places we should be building homes—so more people have access to these wonderful spaces.
  • The area is currently a mix of car repair shops, storage facilities, and empty lots. This is wasted potential for the most well-connected and high-opportunity area of Queens. It doesn't match the surrounding context. OneLIC gives us the opportunity to correct this.
Sign our petition to demonstrate our power and support throughout the OneLIC process!
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To: Council Member Julie Won and Queens Borough President Donovan Richards
From: [Your Name]

As a community member, I would like to express my support for the OneLIC Neighborhood Plan and the thousands of new homes it would create. Our community has a huge need for new housing and this plan would allow for more housing stock to address the crisis.

This plan is a huge opportunity to build more housing in a transit-rich area. Not only would it create new housing stock, but much of it would be desperately needed affordable units. Our city is becoming increasingly unaffordable, with longtime residents facing displacement. Supporting new housing in the OneLIC plan would help current LIC residents can stay while welcoming new faces and reducing car dependency in the borough.

The area is currently a mix of car repair shops, storage facilities, and empty lots. This is wasted potential for the most well-connected and high-opportunity area of Queens. It doesn't match the surrounding context. OneLIC gives us the opportunity to correct this.