Q&A
Debate on New York City's housing construction progress
5:24:39
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139 sec
Council Member Holden challenges the administration's portrayal of New York City's housing construction progress, citing recent data showing significant new apartment completions. Chair Garodnick responds by explaining the incremental nature of the City of Yes proposal's projected housing additions.
- Holden cites data showing NYC leading in new apartment completions
- Garodnick clarifies that their projections are for additional units beyond current trends
- Discussion highlights differing interpretations of housing construction data
Robert F. Holden
5:24:39
According to published findings by the Apartment Search website, Rent Cafe.
5:24:44
There's a there's a recent article.
5:24:46
New construction is set to reach historic national numbers this year.
5:24:51
And the New York metro area is leading the country for the 3rd consecutive year in terms of new apartments set to be completed in 2024.
5:25:00
It's contrary to what you you told us.
5:25:02
Nationally, roughly, 518,000 new apartments have been built, and 33,000 of those are in New York City.
5:25:13
And there's almost 10,000 in Brooklyn, 3000, about 3000 Manhattan and 1200 over 1232 in Queens.
5:25:22
So they're estimating 150,000 apartments are on track to be finished by 2028 in in New York City, without the city of yes, without doing what you're doing.
5:25:32
So my question is, are your numbers skewed what you showed us.
5:25:36
You said that we're, like, down in the middle of the pack in in cities that have constructed new housing.
Daniel Garodnick
5:25:44
So what you saw there was a historic review of what New York City has done relative to other places.
5:25:49
And you are correct to say that there are a certain number of units of housing that will be produced even if city of yes did not exist, even if we had not produced any We believe
Robert F. Holden
5:25:59
in the nation.
Daniel Garodnick
5:26:00
But that I'm sorry.
Robert F. Holden
5:26:01
The the this article says we're meeting already.
Daniel Garodnick
5:26:04
So let I I hadn't seen the article.
5:26:05
Even if you accepted that
Kevin C. Riley
5:26:07
If if I may interject, if we get asked the question in a allowed time to answer the question because we got from
Daniel Garodnick
5:26:13
the court I'm paused for a second, and I'll let the question come out.
Robert F. Holden
5:26:18
Like, you finish?
5:26:19
No.
Daniel Garodnick
5:26:19
I I just wanted to make I was trying to be respectful of the chairs.
5:26:22
Is this my turn or the councilman?
5:26:24
Okay.
5:26:25
So the the short answer is even if the city were to produce some number of housing units, which of course we expect that it would naturally is what has happened.
5:26:35
What you saw on our slides and what you saw through our environmental review is the incremental addition of what we expect this proposal would deliver, and that's where you see the 58,000 to a 108,000 additional units over 15 years.
5:26:49
So there's nothing inconsistent about that, and there's, you know, and and the facts that you see on the slide were about historical production between New York City and other places.
5:26:59
But
Robert F. Holden
5:26:59
we are doing a great job in building new housing in New York City.
