A group of homeowners and opponents protested Gov. Kathy Hochul’s housing plan at Queens Borough Hall Friday.

“This thing that she put into the budget is apocalyptic,” said Paul Graziano of S.A.V.E. 1 Family NY.

Protesters say they believe it’ll increase congestion and decrease quality of life.

Inside of Hochul’s budget proposal is a plan to addresses the state’s housing crisis.

While some supporters see the proposal as a path to progress, opponents see it as a setback.

The governor’s plan to create 800,000 new homes statewide over the next decade is outlined in what her office calls — The New York Housing Compact.

It would achieve its goal, in part, by changing zoning policies that would make way for new homes to exist where current laws prohibit them. That means allowing multi-family buildings in areas only zoned for one-family homes, including parts of Queens.

“She’s not making it affordable,” said Rene Hill, vice president of the Queens Civic Congress. “She’s making it so that investors can buy up the single-family homes and make it two and three families. And they’re not going to rent it for like $600 dollars. They’re going to have $1,700 rent.”

Althea Matthews recently moved into a new apartment following three years in New York City’s shelter system because she couldn’t find an affordable home after her previous residence caught fire.

As a housing advocate working with groups like Housing Justice For All, she said she doesn’t believe the answer is to build new homes.

“We have a lot of empty units we can’t afford,” Matthews said. “And then we have a lot of rent stabilized apartments that the landlords are warehousing. So we don’t need to build no more units.”

Barika Williams is the executive director of the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, an advocacy group that promotes affordable housing. The organization supports Hochul’s housing plan but has some concerns.

“We’re supportive of the governor’s proposal to undo some of our long standing exclusionary housing practices,” Williams said. “We would love to see more of a focus on affordability and not just housing construction and production.”

Some opponents, including those protesting Hochul’s housing plan Friday, believe housing construction is the point of the proposal.

“Just a big giveaway to the real estate industry,” said Graziano.

In a statement, a spokesperson for Hochul’s office said, “The New York Housing Compact proposed by Governor Hochul is a plan to create a broad range of housing types — including single-family homes, affordable housing, mixed-income multifamily, and others — in New York communities and neighborhoods.”

Hochul’s housing proposal is one of the main sticking points of budget negotiations happening in Albany.

Lawmakers have been pushing back against parts of it.

It is unclear what will make it into the final budget.