Q&A
Racial analysis of zoning changes and City of Yes plan impact
3:58:38
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132 sec
Council Member Cabán requests a racial analysis of previous zoning decisions, particularly those from the Bloomberg era, and how the City of Yes plan addresses resulting disparities. Chair Garodnick responds, acknowledging past negative impacts and explaining how the current proposal aims to correct these issues.
- Cabán asks about the racial impact of previous down-zoning and how City of Yes will address neighborhood disparities
- Garodnick explains that past zoning decisions increased segregation and displacement in certain areas
- The City of Yes plan is presented as an opportunity to address these issues by opening up more neighborhoods for development and increasing affordable housing options across the city
Tiffany Cabán
3:58:38
Clear.
3:58:39
I just wanted to talk to if you because you've you've talked about this already, but I I wanted y'all to speak from it from a a racial analysis, right, and we talked about the Bloomberg era down zoning, both on housing access and fair housing across different parts of of the city during certain years of his administration, can you just talk about the racial impact of that down zoning and how city of yes is going to deal with those kinds of disparities across neighborhoods in terms of where the new housing is is made available because I know that you got there were some studies done on where something like like where it's gonna lead to more units in the same working class black and brown neighborhoods versus other neighborhoods.
3:59:22
If you could just speak to what you've talked about, but Yeah.
3:59:25
I I can have a visual analysis.
Daniel Garodnick
3:59:26
Most precise stats on this as a follow-up.
3:59:31
But the short answer is by functionally building walls around entire parts of the city.
3:59:36
We increased segregation and we increased in some areas and increased displacement and gentrification in others.
3:59:48
That was the unfortunate result of those actions that were taken 20 or so years ago.
3:59:56
We we we have to correct it now.
3:59:59
We are in a significant crisis and it has had those unfortunate impacts on furthering segregation and increasing displacement and gentrification that we now have an opportunity to address.
4:00:14
Through our fair housing policy where we live NYC, which was released in 2020.
4:00:20
The city said the only way to deal with the forces of segregation, the only way to increase affordable housing across all neighborhoods, including more affluent, amenity rich, great access to transit districts, is to open the door.
4:00:36
And that is what this proposal is is doing and that's why we drafted it this way.
Shahana Hanif
4:00:42
Thank you.
Kevin C. Riley
4:00:43
Thank you, Cosmos.
4:00:44
You have 2nd round of questions?
4:00:47
No.
4:00:48
Counsel member, Danowitz.
