TESTIMONY
Testimony by Carrie Bloss, Executive Director of Heights and Hills on the 341 10th Street Development
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Carrie Bloss, Executive Director of Heights and Hills, testifies about the lack of affordable housing in New York City and its impact on older adults. She discusses her organization's mission to support older adults in maintaining their housing and independence, as well as their operation of an older adult center in Park Slope. Additional points include:
- Heights and Hills provides support to homebound older adults and family caregivers
- Bloss expresses excitement about the potential use of a new publicly accessible park for outdoor programming
- The organization is interested in conducting programming closer to Fifth Avenue, where many of their members reside
Carrie Bloss
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Thank you very much.
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I'm Carrie Bloss.
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I'm the executive director of Hyphen Hills.
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Our mission is to support older adults in the community to help them maintain their housing and independence through supports to homebound older adults and supports to family caregivers.
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We also operate excuse me, an older adult center in Park Slope.
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I'm also a resident of Park Slope.
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There is a As many people have said, there is a deep lack of affordable housing in New York City.
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This particularly affects older adults.
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Who met most of whom are on a fixed income.
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This project will provide approximately 70 new new homes dedicated to older adults.
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Which is very important to Hudson Hills and the community as a whole.
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We are also very cited as they send hills about the potential for using the new publicly accessible park for outdoor programming.
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We our our older adult center is located on Seventh Street, just off the Seventh Avenue.
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We do some programming in in Prospect Park.
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But we would love to be able to do programming closer to Fifth Avenue where many of our residents or many of our members reside.
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So we're very excited about the potential for that for residents of the new buildings, of the existing buildings, and our older adults from the larger community.