Q&A
Changes in housing production proportionality across community boards
5:10:37
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137 sec
Council Member Eric Dinowitz inquires about how the City of Yes proposal would affect the proportionality of housing production across different community boards and council districts. Chair Daniel Garodnick explains that the proposal would enable housing creation in previously restricted areas and create a more even distribution of housing across the city.
- The proposal would allow housing in low-density areas through accessory dwelling units and transit-oriented development.
- It would open up opportunities for affordable housing in higher-income neighborhoods through the universal affordability preference.
- While percentage increases might be higher in areas starting from zero, the overall changes in any one neighborhood would be modest.
Eric Dinowitz
5:10:37
Thank you, chair.
5:10:39
I I wanna go back to this idea of the certain community boards producing most of the housing.
5:10:48
In your analysis, does the city of yes, would it change the proportionality of the community boards or council districts that produce housing?
Daniel Garodnick
5:10:57
Yes.
Eric Dinowitz
5:10:58
And to what extent,
Daniel Garodnick
5:11:00
Well, it would enable housing to be created in places where it is here to for not possible.
5:11:08
So by opening up the possibility of a town center or a transit oriented development or even accessory dwelling unit in a low density area.
5:11:17
You have the ability to add some amount of units in those neighborhoods that today are functionally closed off, similarly in higher income or amenity rich neighborhoods, which have not seen as much development of affordable housing.
5:11:33
The universal affordability preference would open the door and even that out and allow for more affordable housing in all medium and high density areas, not just in 13% of them, which is currently the dynamic.
5:11:44
So it would create a better proportion and better division of housing across the city.
Eric Dinowitz
5:11:50
So I would think that since it's allowing a little more housing everywhere, the argument has been, it's just a little more in each neighborhood that it wouldn't disproportionately affect any one neighbor, but it sounds now that you are saying it would sort of I mean, to put it one way even out which neighborhoods are producing housing.
5:12:09
And it also sounds like you're saying proportionally, right, obviously not in the aggregate, but proportionally, the lower income neighborhoods would be providing more than they otherwise would have compared to the higher density neighborhoods.
Daniel Garodnick
5:12:27
I mean, if if you're asking, if you're starting at 0 when you move to, like, 10 units, does that have a a higher percentage increase?
5:12:35
Yes.
5:12:36
But it's still not a lot of housing in the in in any one neighborhood and deliberately because we did not want to create the sort of impacts that we know that neighborhoods are frequently concerned about.
5:12:47
And and also we did not want to prompt drastic changes here.
5:12:51
We wanted to have more modest changes in neighborhoods.
Eric Dinowitz
5:12:54
Okay.
