Two firms are offering New York City a solution to a slew of affordable housing issues.

To make it work, Greystone and Lappin Associates need a property-tax break for rent-regulated housing.

Their plan would address two controversial elements of the rent-stabilization law passed last year: its severe limits on regulated rent increases to pay for improvements, and its elimination of means-testing, which lets even the wealthiest New Yorkers lease rent-stabilized units.

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