“The public says we don’t want to pay them any more,” he said, noting that many lawmakers basically work full time and earn $79,500 a year. “And somebody is going to represent Manhattan and raise a family?”  There was no doubt that housing was a top-line issue for Mr. Cuomo this year, when he promised to spend $20 billion over the next five years to create thousands of affordable and supportive housing units. But housing advocates were dismayed at the bargain that state leaders struck on Friday night, saying that the $150 million in new state funding amounted to little more than a token of the $2 billion for housing that the governor and legislators approved in the budget in March.  “Every month that passes without the full M.O.U. means New York misses out on at least 1,000 new units of affordable, senior and supportive housing,” a group of advocates said in a statement on Saturday, referring to the memorandum of understanding that the legislative leaders and the governor must sign to open the funding spigot. “Without the release of the full $2 billion, affordable housing projects are being needlessly delayed at a time of unprecedented need.”  That said, there is nothing that says the agreement had to come by Friday night. In theory, Mr. Cuomo and the legislative leaders — John J. Flanagan, the Long Island Republican who is the Senate majority leader, and Carl E. Heastie, the Bronx Democrat who is the State Assembly speaker — could still negotiate a broader one later this year.  “Technically, it can get negotiated later, but the practicality is, there’s no shot,” Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, a Democrat and chairman of the Assembly’s social services committee, said before the agreement was signed last week. “Everybody goes back to their districts in an election year. Nobody’s going to be focused, nobody’s going to want to cut a deal.”  Over the weekend, the governor’s office said the overall commitment — including tax credits and other types of funding — would amount to $570 million in 2016, and would allow the state to fund 1,200 units of supportive housing this year. That schedule is consistent with the plan Mr. Cuomo outlined in January, his aides said, and puts the state on track to open 6,000 units over the next five years and 20,000 units over the next 15 years.  In the interview, Mr. Cuomo called the criticism “a distortion of the facts,” explaining that this year’s funds are only the first installment of a larger, $10.4 billion plan to reduce homelessness through new beds and services. He said new rounds of funding would come as the state worked to open each chunk of supportive housing units, a process that he said was standard for city, state and federal programs.  “They don’t set aside and allocate $20 billion in year one; otherwise, it would be a one-year program,” Mr. Cuomo said. “The system cannot produce that much housing that fast, and that’s why you come up with the allocations.”  The Cuomo administration voiced its displeasure with critics on Twitter, where Melissa DeRosa, the governor’s chief of staff, mocked the complaints directly. “$570M for first year of 5 year pledge fulfilled,” she wrote on Friday, adding, “Learn to take yes for an answer or stop being credible.”  She also drew a sharp distinction with the mayor.  “How much $ has city hall released?” Ms. DeRosa wrote. “More than enough for 1200 units? Did mayor break promises? Guilty of betrayal?”  On Saturday, the mayor’s office returned fire, suggesting that the governor and the Legislature had missed the opportunity to address affordable housing and homelessness in the city.  “When it comes to affordable housing investments and help for homeless New Yorkers, it’s clear the state is doing far too little,” he said in a statement on Saturday.  Mr. de Blasio, of course, had other reasons for consternation, chief among them the one-year extension of his control of city schools — an outcome that could hardly have been worse, given that most legislators did not seriously entertain notions of allowing mayoral control to lapse. The mayor also had to accept two unpalatable concessions just to get the bare minimum: agreeing to publish information about the city’s schools budgeting and changing the way many of the city’s charter schools are run.  It was the second year in a row that Mr. de Blasio had to accept a single-year extension. On Saturday, he called the consecutive one-year extensions “no way to treat our children, families and educators,” adding that it was, nevertheless, a “crucial acknowledgment by state lawmakers that the education progress we have made in New York City could not have happened without our accountable control of the school system.”  Mr. de Blasio’s office noted what it thought were successes, such as protecting neighborhood zoning regulations, stabilizing bus contracting and preventing tinted windows on cars. He thanked Mr. Heastie, but, notably, not Mr. Cuomo or Mr. Flanagan.  “This legislative session,” the statement concluded, understatedly, “was not without its missed opportunities.”  Others in the city who watched the negotiations were on the edge over the brinkmanship. “What we need in New York City is stability,” said Dennis M. Walcott, the schools chancellor under Mr. de Blasio’s predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg, who won a seven-year extension of mayoral control. “To me, this back and forth, back and forth is a really unsettling situation.”  The Cuomo administration suggested that the session’s end was anticlimactic because many of its priorities were accomplished at the March 31 budget deadline — most notably an increase in the minimum wage to $15.  “Fifteen dollars is a national accomplishment,” Mr. Cuomo said. “Paid family leave is a national accomplishment. First state in the nation to do lead testing in every school, that’s a national accomplishment, and these are accomplishments that affect people. What session, what accomplishments produced more?”  J. David Goodman contributed reporting from New York.  A version of this article appears in print on June 20, 2016, on page A14 of the New York edition with the headline: Legislative Session Is Called a Letdown, but Cuomo Has a Much Different View. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said “it was probably the most successful session in modern history,” despite falling short on proposals involving ethics and housing reform.