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Council Member Hanif requests specific information on neighborhood character and affordability

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Council Member Shahana Hanif briefly summarizes the panel's input on affordability and asks for more specific information about neighborhood character and where affordable housing should be built. She emphasizes the need for concrete suggestions and details.

Hanif acknowledges that the need for more affordability has been clearly communicated
She reiterates her questions about neighborhood character and affordable housing locations
The council member stresses the importance of receiving specific, actionable information from the panel

Shahana Hanif

5:59:05

back to the question if anybody They

Jack Bolembach

5:59:06

pay $950 a month.

Shahana Hanif

5:59:08

What is neighbor character?

5:59:09

What is where does affordable housing get built?

5:59:13

And if if there's specificity, we would really love to hear it.

Thomas Diana

5:59:17

Okay.

5:59:18

Alright.

5:59:18

Can I give you an answer as an engineer?

5:59:22

I don't know if you saw this, but it was just such an egregious example.

5:59:26

They built high rise in LA, 660 $1000 per unit.

5:59:34

Makes North Shore Towers look like a slum.

5:59:37

Okay?

5:59:39

They are building.

5:59:41

You probably don't know the history of Levittown in Hicksville.

5:59:44

These houses were built that blue collar workers could afford them.

5:59:50

Okay?

5:59:51

Instead, you're building luxury apartments and then having taxpayers pay for them.

5:59:57

That architect was right on queue, when he said, you need small microapartments that a single person can live in that are nice, not marble, everything.

6:00:11

And that they can then afford them, and you make a target price of something like 12 or $1500 for them.

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