Q&A
Addressing housing affordability through land use policy
0:47:18
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45 sec
Raju Mann elaborates on the limitations of land use policy in addressing deep affordability needs, particularly for low-income households. He explains the challenges of using land use tools to meet urgent housing needs for the most vulnerable New Yorkers.
- Mann emphasizes the difficulty of using land use policy to address housing needs for households at 0-30% of area median income.
- He mentions the importance of other systems like shelters and vouchers for addressing these urgent housing needs.
- Mann clarifies that his earlier statement was meant to highlight the limitations of land use policy in solving deep affordability issues on its own.
Raju Mann
0:47:18
Yeah.
0:47:18
Thanks for the question and for the opportunity to sort of explain a little bit better what I was thinking.
0:47:22
So I think especially for those households at no income, 10%, 20%, 30%, which are not an insignificant portion of the New York City.
0:47:35
Population, those kind of most vulnerable New Yorkers.
0:47:38
It's very hard to engineer Lanyue's policy to really address those kinds of urgent housing needs.
0:47:44
That's obviously where the shelter system comes in.
0:47:46
That's where vouchers come in, in particular, where you have a real gap in income, which doesn't can't be closed by an affordable housing unit in the way that we subsidize with HPD or NIH.
0:47:59
So thanks for the opportunity to clarify.
0:48:00
I think what I was trying to get out there.
