Q&A
Potential impact of UAP on affordable housing in specific neighborhoods
3:36:58
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Council Member Hanif inquires about the potential impact of the Universal Affordability Preference (UAP) on specific neighborhoods, particularly in her district. Chair Garodnick provides a positive outlook on the program's expected effects.
- Hanif asks if neighborhoods like Park Slope and Carroll Gardens would have more affordable housing if UAP had been in place
- Garodnick confirms that UAP would definitely affect these neighborhoods positively
- He emphasizes that UAP has the deepest affordability of any voluntary inclusionary housing program
- The chair projects that in its first 15 years, UAP will produce more units than the voluntary inclusionary housing program has since 1987
- Garodnick strongly encourages the council to pass the UAP initiative
Shahana Hanif
3:36:58
Amazing.
3:36:59
And then would there be more affordable housing in neighborhoods like mine?
3:37:04
Parks open Carol Gardens today if UAP had been in place?
Daniel Garodnick
3:37:10
Yes.
3:37:11
Definitely.
3:37:13
UAP has the deepest affordability of any voluntary inclusionary housing program and will have the most applicability in both geography and projected unit count In the 1st 15 years of this program, we expect more units than we have gotten through our voluntary, inclusionary housing program since 1987.
3:37:33
We think this is a big and important initiative.
3:37:35
It definitely would affect neighborhoods like yours in a positive way.
3:37:39
Definitely would affect us city wide, so we very much hope encourage the council to pass it.
