Q&A
Role of different agencies in addressing housing challenges
0:48:02
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Raju Mann outlines the collaborative approach needed among various city agencies to address New York City's housing challenges. He emphasizes the importance of integrating land use policy with housing policy to create effective solutions.
- Mann stresses that every agency in the housing ecosystem has a role to play in addressing affordable housing challenges.
- He highlights the need for collaboration between the Department of City Planning and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD).
- Mann explains that while increasing housing supply is important, it's not sufficient on its own to address all housing challenges.
- He mentions other tools like vouchers, HPD subsidies, and investments in NYCHA as crucial components of a comprehensive housing strategy.
Raju Mann
0:48:02
Yeah.
0:48:02
I mean, I think everybody has a role to play every agency in the housing ecosystem as a role to play to addressing the affordable housing challenges.
0:48:10
I think it needs to be, I think, in my mind, language policy, coupled with housing policy, meaning HPD policy making in particular, to make sure that those two things are working together.
0:48:23
So we're, you know, an area wide rezoning, for example, is happening that HPDs at the table thinking through where the long term affordable housing opportunities sit and how they might deliver the most out of that land use project or proposal.
0:48:38
That's not something I think the commissioner, the department city planning, can do on its own.
0:48:42
I think the department does have responsibility to think about housing growth more broadly and making sure that we are increasing the housing supply for broad range of New Yorkers.
0:48:52
But I don't think that's going to be sufficient.
0:48:54
For addressing our housing challenges.
0:48:57
Again, I think other tools like vouchers and HPD subsidy, investments in Nitro, etcetera, etcetera, are the the sort of kit of parts that really get to the underlying central housing challenges.
