REMARKS
Council Member Alexa Avilés on investment in aging New Yorkers
2:56:28
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Council Member Alexa Avilés stresses the need for increased support and investment in the aging population of New York City to ensure they age with dignity.
- Avilés thanks Chair Hudson and calls for investments to match the community's growth.
- Urges administration to coordinate and enhance investments for older New Yorkers at a pace equal to their population growth.
- Highlights the importance of dignified aging for immigrants within the senior community.
- Marks the issue as vital for the city's present and future.
Alexa Avilés
2:56:28
Would just add, thank you, chair Hudson, that the the rate of growth for this community should also parallel the rate of growth of investment in the supports that we need to make that New York City's aging population, ages with dignity, and ages in place, and that the investment that they've made in this city we are making in them.
2:56:55
And so I would urge the administration that they must do everything in their power, coordination, and grow the investment in older New York in in older New Yorkers, many Omar immigrants at the same pace and with the same urgency.
2:57:13
With which this population is growing.
2:57:14
And so thank you to everyone for their time and their work today, and we will continue to dig into this issue that is so important to our cities.
2:57:22
Present and future.
2:57:23
Thank you.