Joshua Solomon reports in the Times Union that the Albany legislature has failed to pass any significant legislation this year to address the large affordable housing crisis in the state. State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie released a joint statement on June 8 to blame Gov. Kathy Hochul for their failure to pass any legislation. “Unfortunately, it was clear that we could not come to an agreement with the governor on this plan,” Stewart-Cousins and Heastie said. “All three chambers must immediately redouble our efforts and come up with a plan that the governor will sign into law.” But the legislative session ends this week, so there will not be any help to renters and buyers across New York any time soon. Hochul’s spokesperson, Julie Wood, blamed the legislature. Hochul originally proposed building 800,000 housing units across the state over the next ten years. Other bills have proposed converting commercial buildings into housing, and to give tenants more rights. None of it passed. Open New York, a group that supports both good cause legislation and housing development, denounced both the governor and the legislature, with Annemarie Gray, the group’s executive director, saying in a statement, “While Albany is spending the day finger-pointing their way through failure, it is beyond clear that there is more than enough blame to be spread around.” Read more about this story in the Times Union.