In his first year in office, Mayor Eric Adams repeatedly pledged his commitment to build housing lower-income New Yorkers.

“Housing cannot be a privilege for those with supportive families or generational wealth,” he said in April in his State of the City speech.

To address the crisis, he has unveiled a blueprint for housing and homelessness, a proposal for zoning text amendments to facilitate new construction and over 100 recommendations for removing red tape to help achieve his administration’s ambitious goal of 500,000 new units in a decade.

“It is a moonshot,” Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer said earlier this month, adding, “I believe we can get there.”

But Adams has not said what share of those half million homes should be below market rate, saying in June when announcing his “Housing Our Neighbors” plan, “I’m not at this magic number.”

Adams has voiced a responsibility for creating and preserving homes for all incomes, including those struggling in the middle-income range.

One of his biggest celebrations this past year was announcing a major league soccer stadium would anchor a Queens project with “2,500 units of 100% affordable housing.”

But he at least twice this year delivered housing development-centric remarks before the Association for a Better New York business group.

Earlier this month, in front of ABNY, he criticized those who’ve wanted wealthier New Yorkers to leave. “No, you leave!” he responded. “I want my high-income earners right here in this city.”

At the same ABNY gathering, Adams and Hochul jointly unveiled a vision for New York.

“Because we have to ensure that people know that these are business districts, but they’re not limited to that,” Hochul said. “They don’t have to just be for business any longer. Why can’t we have people living there as well?”"

Hochul plans to use her State of the State address next month to detail her blueprint for hitting her target of 800,000 new housing units in the next 10 years. And unlike Adams, she had separately set a goal for affordable housing.

“We have to make up for the past,” she added earlier this month. “So we proposed $25 billion in building 100,000 units of affordable housing over the next five years.”

Both the governor and the mayor have indicated that they don’t think building at such scale would be possible without a tax break for developers to replace the now-expired 421-a.

“I believe we’re going to have to get back to a form of incentives,” Hochul said recently. “This does not happen on its own.”

The availability of that tool and host of other factors will determine how big a building boom the city actually sees in the coming years.

“We’re going to hold this mayor to a plan to produce housing,” said Rachel Fee of Housing Conference New York. “We know there are many challenges around cost inflation, around rising interest rates, but New Yorkers need affordable housing now more than ever.”

As for the year in housing in numbers, the City Council approved land use applications totaling more than 12,000 units.

The mayor touted that in one week in November, 8,500 units had been “advanced,” but the figure included the Willets Point, Queens, project not yet approved by the council.