QUESTION
How is information on offline housing units versus those being activated categorized?
0:57:05
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The NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) breaks down reasons for housing units being offline or in the process of activation, detailing 16 different reasons in their report.
- HPD enumerates reasons for housing units' statuses in their report, offering detailed breakdowns.
- 16 different reasons are itemized for housing units being offline or in the process of activation, consistent with the 2021 report.
- The department expresses willingness to provide specific numbers upon request.
- The categorization of 230,000 units indicates that not all require intervention.
- The analysis highlights the dynamic nature of housing unit categories, with reasons for being offline or unoccupied varying across cycles.
Lincoln Restler
0:57:05
Do you break that information down to have a sense of what's really offline versus what's in the process of being activated?
Elyzabeth Gaumer
0:57:11
We do enumerate all of those different reasons, and that's in our report.
0:57:14
We're happy to give you those numbers if you're interested in them to read into the record.
0:57:18
But we do itemize think it this year, it's 16 different reasons, same as we did in 21, and many of those reasons.
0:57:26
And obviously, these each of these groups grows and ebbs, right, from 1 cycle to the next.
0:57:31
But just so that we're clear that 230,000 is not something that necessarily needs an intervention.
Adam Edwards Rivera
0:57:36
Correct.
Elyzabeth Gaumer
0:57:36
That's a very diverse group of housing units across a whole variety of reasons that they don't happen to be for rent or they're not yet occupied.
0:57:43
And I