Q&A
Expanding HPD programs to support new homeowners under Intro 958
1:06:35
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100 sec
Council Member Salamanca inquires about how HPD's programs supporting low and moderate-income homeowners would need to be expanded to meet the needs of additional New Yorkers who would become homeowners under Intro 958.
- HPD is expanding the Homeowner Help Desk citywide, increasing capacity to assist homeowners with various questions and issues.
- The new three-year contract for the Homeowner Help Desk is valued at over $9 million and will involve partnerships with over a dozen community-based organizations.
- HPD emphasizes the need for increased capital resources to implement Intro 958 without facing hard choices in resource allocation.
Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
1:06:35
How would expanding HPE's programs that support low and moderate income homeowners need to be expanded to meet the needs of additional New Yorkers who would become homeowners next to intro 958?
Ahmed Tagani
1:06:48
So if the question is about outreach, I think that we're moving toward that with the expansion of the homeowner help desk is a main prong.
1:06:58
It's not the only prong, but the partnership between increasing our capacity internally plus increasing the capacity of our partner on the ground, which is the center for New York City neighborhoods.
1:07:09
Plus, they bring in over a dozen of CBOs in all the boroughs.
1:07:14
So the the tree of pushing that out, this new 3 year contract value to over $9,000,000 is gonna do significant work in that regard.
1:07:22
Additionally, it will increase our capacity to assist homeowners with any questions that they may have.
1:07:29
The big ones that we've heard a lot about is estate planning, deep theft, questions about resiliency.
1:07:35
There's a lot of questions about what programs exist out there now and what is forthcoming due to new programs like silver for all or the greenhouse gas efficient.
1:07:46
Reduction fund that was recently announced at the federal level and making its way through city channels.
Kim Darga
1:07:51
We would just add to that that so there's the outreach component.
1:07:56
You know, if we were going to implement intro 958.
1:08:01
There's a couple other things that we would need to look at.
1:08:03
Certainly, we talked about a little bit earlier.
1:08:06
The resources, we would we really would need to look at increasing the capital resources if we were not going to be faced with hard choices.
