Q&A
Chair Garodnick addresses balancing flooding concerns with housing needs
4:32:58
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83 sec
Chair Garodnick acknowledges the significance of flooding and environmental concerns raised by multiple council members while emphasizing the urgent need to address the city's housing crisis. He stresses the importance of tackling both issues simultaneously.
- Garodnick recognizes the pervasiveness of coastal and stormwater flooding issues across the city
- He emphasizes the need to create housing to address affordability and scarcity challenges
- The chair calls for collaboration with city capital agencies to address specific community needs
- Garodnick highlights the long-term nature of New York City's housing challenges and the need for action
Daniel Garodnick
4:32:58
So this is this is clearly an issue.
4:33:01
I've heard it from council member Lee, council member Holden, you, council member, and others, that, you know, the city's issues related to coastal flooding, storm water flooding are significant, and in many places pervasive, that is that is an important issue.
4:33:20
And I I don't I don't mean to minimize that issue as I sit here.
4:33:24
We also have another issue at play here, which is we need to be able to create housing, to be able to address our affordability crisis and our housing scarcity challenge in New York.
4:33:36
So we need to deal with both.
4:33:38
We need to deal with both.
4:33:39
We need to make sure that our city capital agencies are at the table to address the specific needs and specific communities, make sure that they are addressing what are known problems, while also enabling something to have been over 15 years or 30 years or 60 years in New York City in ways that we have not done before to accommodate growth, to deal with the fact that people are struggling today, lower costs, address our challenges of segregation, gentrification, displacement, the price of rents.
4:34:10
We need to act on this at the same time that we are dealing with those infrastructure issues.
4:34:14
And again, I want to be very clear that I'm not minimizing those.
4:34:16
I think they're really important.
4:34:18
And also deserve our full attention.
Rita Joseph
4:34:19
Thank you, Chuck, and I I'll come back for the second round.
