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BUDGET OPENS DOOR TO FURTHER ALCOHOL-RELATED REFORMS
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BUDGET OPENS DOOR TO FURTHER ALCOHOL-RELATED REFORMS

Posted By: Alexandra Becker
Governor Hochul’s proposed executive budget for fiscal year 2025 (the “Budget”), released on January 16, 2024, includes a number of provisions which, while falling short of proposing sweeping change, should nonetheless have positive impacts on the liquor licensing and permitting process within the state. In 2022, the Commission to Reform the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law (the “Commission”) was formed to vote on whether to recommend changes to state laws to [...]
Build 800,000 new homes: How Governor Hochul proposes to do it.

Build 800,000 new homes: How Governor Hochul proposes to do it.

The concept that restrictive zoning and land-use regulations reduce the supply of housing, and in turn, increase the price of housing has been getting significantly more discussion in recent years by think tanks on all sides of spectrum, including the CATO and Brookings Institutes. Joining her colleagues in States like Arizona, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, and North Carolina, as part of her 2023 Executive Budget, Governor Kathy Hochul announced a statewide strategy to build 800,000 new homes [...]
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