Instead of missing a deadline for the state budget, lawmakers Thursday moved it.

They now have until April 4 instead of April 1 to make a budget deal with the governor.

After making sure that state workers will be paid through next Thursday, lawmakers went home for Easter weekend.

“I don’t think we’re near agreement on housing right now,” state Sen. James Skoufis, a Cornwall Democrat, told NY1.

There’s unfinished business — chief among them: deals on housing, health care and education.

“How much affordable housing do we get? How much cost is going to go into that out of the city’s property taxes? And of course there will be labor concerns and issues,” state Sen. Liz Krueger, a Manhattan Democrat, told reporters in the State Capitol on Thursday.

“Everybody has to come to the table, everybody probably has to give a little,” she said.

Those are some open questions tied to the overall housing policy negotiations. There’s disagreement over wage standards for a new housing development plan akin to the since-expired tax exemption program called 421-a.

Sources told NY1 that labor and real estate leaders quietly met with legislative leaders and Gov. Kathy Hochul in Albany.

Among them: Gary LaBarbera, president of the powerful Building and Construction Trades Council.

“Deals can happen very quickly, when people want to make a deal,” state Sen. Brian Kavanagh, a Manhattan Democrat, said.

Democrats are also divided over tenant protections — specifically the controversial “Good Cause Eviction” proposal.

“What ‘Good Causes [Eviction]’ proposes is: it no longer would require both parties to agree to renew a lease,” argued Skoufis, an opponent of the measure. “Only the tenant would have to just say: I want to keep living here and whether the landlord, who owns that unit, likes it or not they would have no choice but to continue to allow that tenant to continue living in that apartment.”

“One of our concerns is that a deal would be made that benefits investors and developers in New York City which then saddles property owners and investors in the rest of the state with all of the problems with ‘Good Cause Eviction,’” Richard Lanzarone, president of the landlord group Hudson Valley Property Owners Association, Inc, said.

Then, there’s the fate of renewing mayoral control over the city’s public school system.

“It just doesn’t belong as part of the budget, it won’t be in the budget,” New York City Education Committee Chair State Sen. John Liu, a Queens Democrat, said.

But there appears to be a deal forming around a plan to grant local law enforcement more power to close illegal weed shops.

“There’s a lot more work to be done. So we’re focusing on the details on what sort of enforcement can happen, so that the illegal shops can be closed much, much quicker,” said Assemblyman Alex Bores, a Manhattan Democrat.

Nonetheless, lawmakers like Liu are optimistic.

“I expect we’ll be done in the first few days of next week,” he said.

In recent years, it’s not unusual to miss the annual April 1 deadline mandated by state law.

The governor didn’t sign a budget deal last year until May 3.