Q&A
Clarification of MIH options and AMI levels
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3 min
David Rosenberg explains that the project proposes MIH Option 1 with a request for the workforce housing option. This would provide 30% of floor area at an average of 115% AMI. Kyle Bragg, former president of 32BJ SEIU, discusses the appropriateness of these AMI levels for union workers.
- Proposed: MIH Option 1 with workforce housing option
- 30% of floor area at average 115% AMI (5% at 70% AMI, 5% at 90% AMI)
- Income for family of 3 at 115% AMI: $153,780 to $167,760
- Average income for 32BJ members: $80,000 to $100,000
- Workforce housing aimed at retaining essential workers in the city
Crystal Hudson
0:49:13
Thank you.
0:49:14
And can you clarify which NIH options are currently proposed to be mapped at this site.
0:49:21
So NIH option 4, I believe it is.
David Rosenberg
0:49:25
Yes.
0:49:26
So city planning to prove this with NIH option 1, which is what we had initially proposed.
0:49:31
In terms of the zoning resolution whenever there's an application for bent or inclusionary housing.
0:49:39
By definition, all 4 options are in front of the council, which is where the council has the option to choose between 1 and 2 have to be mapped.
0:49:47
And then the council has the option to map either option the deep affordability option or the workforce housing option or both.
0:49:55
We are asking that the council will map the workforce housing option here alongside option 1.
Crystal Hudson
0:50:02
Okay.
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And that is 30% of floor area at an average of 115 percent AMI.
0:50:11
Is that correct?
David Rosenberg
0:50:12
Correct.
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5% at 70 AMI, 5% at 90 AMI, up and then at with an average of a 115%.
0:50:21
Yes.
Crystal Hudson
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And do you know what the income for a family of 3 at a 115 percent AMI is?
David Rosenberg
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So for a family of 3 at 115 percent AMI, that is between just because we published the numbers at a 110 to a 120, it is between $153,780 and 167,700 and $60.
0:50:43
And as Mister Bright goes next to me, he can talk about, and part of why we think that workforce is appropriate here even if it might not be in other parts of the city and other projects, as Mister Wallace was saying, this is going to be a union finance project.
0:50:57
Is going to be union built, and this is going to be union operated.
0:51:00
And when we talk about 40% AMI, 60% AMI, 80% AMI, these are income levels that foreclose working class families in New York, especially union families, especially public employees, from being able to access the affordable housing and leaves them to compete for market rate housing with people in the finance sector, the financial services, technology sector.
0:51:28
And it's also a need that we have in the city to have this kind of housing.
0:51:33
And so we think that for a project like this, such a thing would be appropriate.
0:51:36
And these are income managers, Kyle, you can talk about, like, where the incomes are for union families.
0:51:42
That these numbers at 115 percent AMI are about where we find union families.
Kevin Riley
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Do you want me to speak to?
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About the family center.
Kyle Bragg
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Yes.
0:51:54
So as a former president, 32bj, with a membership of about 90,000 here in the city.
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The average the average income for one of our members is somewhere between 80,000 and a $100,000.
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If you put 33j member with a correction officer or with a home care worker or with a labor or construction worker or civil servant, This this allows the most vulnerable group of of of workers in our who's leaving our city at the highest at the highest numbers, black and brown workers.
0:52:34
Because they cannot find affordable housing.
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These are union members or workers or civil servants, healthcare workers, uniform offices.
0:52:45
Just just the people who keep this city running every day, and they find it more and more difficult to to live in the city that they that they service.
