New Yorkers are deeply divided ahead of this mayor’s race. But there is one area of broad consensus.

I’m talking, of course, about the need to address the affordability crisis in New York by building more housing. This is a goal that unites us — left, right, and center — even if we differ on the details of how to get it done.

That’s why the Charter Revision Commission’s proposal to streamline the process of approving the building of new affordable housing should be something we can rally around.

But sometimes common sense and common ground run smack into the kind of cynical. turf protection racket that New York politics too often becomes.

That’s what’s happening with the City Council’s desperate effort to block the Charter Revision Commission’s proposals to build more affordable housing.

The worst part is that they’re doing it with your money — in violation of established law.

Why? It’s because their members will have less individual ability to kill housing development in their districts. Instead, Community Boards and the City Council-approved City Planning Commission would have the power to fast-track affordable housing.

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