Can’t ‘afford’ weak housing plan – group

FOUR YEARS after Mayor de Blasio was elected on promises of making the city more affordable, 5,000 people are expected to descend on City Hall and say he hasn’t done nearly enough.

Metro-IAF will marshal supporters across the city at noon Monday to call on de Blasio (photo inset) to go beyond his affordable housing plan and back their own.

The Metro-IAF plan calls for building 15,000 units of affordable senior housing on dozens of vacant lawns and parking lots owned by the New York City Housing Authority.

Seniors in NYCHA would get first crack at the units, freeing up their often large apartments for younger families, some of them homeless. At the same time, Metro IAF wants the mayor to spend big on NYCHA to repair deplorable conditions.

Tawana Myers told the Daily News that her ceiling in the Linden Houses leaks so badly, she sometimes needs an umbrella to use the bathroom.

De Blasio “needs to be called out, because there’s lots of developments like ours,” Myers said. “There’s tenants that need to be heard that are seniors that are living in these conditions that can’t get out and speak.”

The group pitched its plan — which also includes deeper housing subsidies and stronger prosecution of slumlords — to de Blasio just over a week ago at a Gracie Mansion meeting and invited him to the rally. He’s expected to be marching in Manhattan’s Columbus Day Parade at the time.

The city has its own plan for building housing — some of it including market-rate units — on vacant NYCHA land, as part of plans to boost revenue for the cash-starved housing authority.

Many proposals have met with resistance. Two deals have been reached to build fully affordable senior housing.