Q&A
Alignment of City of Yes proposal with the Fair Housing Framework
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3 min
Speaker Adams inquires about how the City of Yes zoning reform proposals fit into the Fair Housing Framework approach of planning for equitable housing growth.
- The Fair Housing Framework, passed by the City Council, requires a citywide plan to address the housing crisis equitably.
- Director Garodnick explains that the City of Yes proposal aligns with the framework by enabling more housing in every neighborhood.
- The proposal aims to open doors for housing opportunities citywide, addressing the challenge of some neighborhoods being functionally closed off.
- Garodnick emphasizes that this approach is consistent with the Fair Housing Framework's goals of setting targets and describing specific details district by district.
Adrienne E. Adams
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Okay.
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Thank you for that.
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We're gonna try to connect the dots with THIS PROPOSAL WITH THE CITY OF A SONING PROPOSAL ALONG WITH THE FAIR HOUSING FRAMEWORK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE PASSED.
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LAST YEAR THE COUNCIL PASSED LEGISLATION TO REQUIRE A CITY WIDE FAIR HOUSING FRAMEWART PLAN TO EQUITABALLY prehensively address the housing crisis.
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The legislation requires city agencies to identify housing production targets for total housing units, affordable housing units, housing serving formerly homeless households, an affordable housing preservation based on a detailed analysis of the city's needs and planning criteria, including displacement risk, access to transit and infrastructure, and climate change vulnerability.
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The fair housing framework will be released in 2 parts in 20252026.
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How do the city of yes zoning reform proposals fit into the fair housing framework approach of planning for housing growth and equitably.
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Equity.
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And and we know because when we put this together, again, my thought was every district be responsible for something.
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So how does the city of yes, how do those proposals fit into the FHF approach?
Daniel Garodnick
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Thank you for the question.
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I think it fits perfectly in with this approach because the council has said that we need to enable a little bit more housing in every neighborhood.
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And we are proposing to do just that.
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We've never before, as a city, embarked upon a proposal that opens the door city wide to allow for a little bit of housing everywhere.
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But we also know that this is hard.
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It's complicated.
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It's challenging for communities that have seen no housing production over many years to even consider saying yes, where it means some amount even if it is modest or incremental amount of change.
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So we propose to do this in a way that we think is extremely respectful of communities around the city, modest multifamily apartment buildings, opportunities for homeowners.
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We think that this is a way for us to open that door respectfully.
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So we appreciate very much your leadership, the council's leadership on the fair housing framework, where we will be setting targets, numbers, describing specific details, district by district.
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And my hope is that by passing city of yes for housing opportunity if the council sees fit to do that, that we will enable some opportunities to actually exist in all neighborhoods around the city.
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Today, many neighborhoods are functionally closed off.
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It's creating real pressures in certain areas of the city, and they're struggling.
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We need to open the door here.
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And we think it's totally consistent.
